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• A short introductory video from AOPA about aviation and STEM curriculum with breakfast (available throughout the morning)

• Airplane on static display on the ramp, Cirrus SR22 N625VS (single-engine airplane)

• Geisinger LifeFlight helicopter and pilot

• Senior flight instructor Dave Hall hosting short flights for every student in the Redbird FMX simulator (they flew to the grass in Sunbury)

• Talk by 3 In the Green resident Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) mechanic

• Each student will fold the wings for the Power Up 4.0 drone (there are 4 sheets for the wing in each kit, so everyone can make a wing). We had tables and chairs for them to do that.

8:00-8:30 arrivals

8:30 simulator rides begin, continuing until 11:30

8:30 -8:45 STEM video presentation

8:45-9:15 Making glider wings

9:15- 9:45 LifeFlight presentation and inspection of their helicopter

9:45-10:15 Inspection of an airplane on the airport ramp

10:15-11:00 Airplane mechanic presentation about maintenance

11:30 Depart for Pennsylvania College of Technology

1. Will describe aircraft used today by explaining the operation of piston, turboprop, and jet engines.

2. Will discuss the forces that act on an airplane in flight, including thrust, lift, drag and gravity.

3. Will explain how an airfoil generates lift, how the primary control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, and rudder) affect the airplane's attitude, and how a propeller produces thrust.

4. Pilots and flight instructors will demonstrate in our Redbird FMX simulator how the control surfaces of an airplane are used for takeoff, straight climb, level turn, climbing turn, descending turn, straight descent, and landing.

5. Offer a flight instructor will discuss the several kinds of pilot certificates: the sport pilot, the recreational pilot and the private pilot certificates; the instrument rating.

6. WITH PARENTAL PERMISSION AND WITH SIGNED CONSENT, we will offer a brief discovery flight in an aircraft.

7. Will explain the purposes and functions of the various instruments found in a typical single-engine aircraft: attitude indicator, heading indicator, altimeter, airspeed indicator, turn and bank indicator, vertical speed indicator, compass, navigation (GPS and VOR) and communication radios, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, and oil temperature gauge.

8. Will review a poster of an aircraft instrument panel and identify the instruments and radios.

9. Will explain how the airport facilities are used, how runways are numbered, and how runways are determined to be 'active.'

10. Will perform with the student (and classroom teachers) — under supervision of a pilot or flight instructor — a preflight inspection of a light aircraft.

11. Will teach the student how to read an aeronautical chart, and how to measure a true course on the chart, correct for magnetic variation, compass deviation, and wind drift to determine a compass heading. We will also demonstrate how to do this with modern digital computer-based flight planning software.

12. Students and teachers will fly the course and heading established by them in the flight planning step above in our Redbird full motion flight simulator.