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P&N
Ground Schools are done through Kirkwood Community College Continuing
Education Program and taught by Certified Ground Instructors, Jan and
Perry Walton. Each Ground School Course, Private Pilot and
Instrument Rating is held at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, which
has excellent classroom facilities. Registering and
purchasing of
materials is done at the Marion Airport.
Private
Pilot Ground School course (Airplanes & Helicopters) will
include information on the following:
- Basic
Aerodynamics -
How does an Aircraft fly? Parts of an Aircraft
- Aircraft
Systems -
Includes all the systems and mechanics of an Aircraft.
- Flight
Instruments -
Identifies the different flight instruments, their purpose and location.
- Regulations
for Aviation
- Everything has rules & regulations, these are for aviation
- Airport
Operations -
How do you fly into and land at airports?
- Airspaces
- There
are different types of Airspaces above us, cities, and airports
- Weather
- Weather
determines whether we can fly or not. How to read Weather
maps and reports.
- Aircraft
Performance
- How much weight can be put into a plane? Is this runway
long enough to take off from?
- Cross
Country Flying
- How to get from one airport to another.
Instrument
Ground School course (Airplanes) will include the following:
- Flight
Instrument Systems
- Review of systems in an Airplane and how they relate to IFR Flying
- Weather
- Review of
Weather systems, maps and reports and how they relate to IFR Flying
- Airspaces
- Review
of the Class of Airspace and how they relate to IFR Flying
- Instrument
Approaches
- How to transition from the clouds to the airport environment
- Arrival
Procedures -
How to transition from the IFR enroute flying to the Instrument
Approaches
- Enroute
Procedures -
Flying Cross Country on an IFR plan or flying by using instruments
- Departure
Procedures
- Transitioning from the Airport environment to the enroute procedures
- Regulations
for IFR flying
- Rules for Instrument flying
Both
Courses will be held one night a week for 8 weeks each. They
are scheduled as follows:
Private
Pilot Ground
School will meet Tuesday Nights, 6:30 - 9:30 pm,
starting: Sept. 9, 2008 - Oct. 28,
2008
Nov. 11,
2008 - Jan. 13, 2009 (no class 12/23 and 12/30)
Feb. 3, 2009 - March 24, 2009
April 7, 2009 - May 26, 2009
Instrument
Ground
School will meet Monday Nights, 6:30 - 9:30 pm,
starting:
Sept. 15,
2008 - Nov. 3, 2008
Feb. 2, 2009 - March 23, 2009
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