User:Vtaylor/EAA Young Eagles

== forms, checklist==
 * Guides checklist - 6 x 10+ scouts - brief - erau, parents, volunteers - bsa guide checklist.odt
 * activities - brief
 * signup - check off registration listhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-Ynhwn9TmNTrPYGLQtmTvLp__XXF6w_EGThv-PtdW98/viewform
 * not pre-registered - fill out same info
 * intro, outline, times, rotation, panel, YE, gliders, blue cards
 * activities x 3 - 20-25 minutes 9:40 10:05 10:30
 * panel, questions 11:00
 * Young Eagles brief, signup 11:30
 * FPG-9 - make, test, compete
 * blue cards
 * close - airshows, balloon display, flight line, static displays, rides, entertainment 11:50
 * presenters available for 15 min - individual questions

== email== Aviation Badge Workshop @ New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest Saturday April 6, 2013 9:30am - Noon

Come to the Aviation Merit badge session. Stay for the airplanes, exhibits, entertainment, food, balloons and the air shows.

Learn everything you need for the Aviation Merit Badge. Talk with aeronautical and aerospace engineers, airplane mechanics, Embry Riddle students, as well as commercial, military and airshow pilots. See airplanes and helicopters inside and out. Learn about flight controls and avionics. Try flying the aircraft flight simulators. Plan a trip around Florida. Build your own glider and compete in the flight challenge.

Come in your Scout uniform and your admission to the entire New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest is FREE!

Experience the excitement. Be part of the action. Complete your Aviation Merit Badge requirements. Have a great day!

If you plan to attend or if you have questions, please contact ...


 * Go for a free flight from New Smyrna Beach airport at the end of April. These flights are provided by Experimental Aircraft Association - Daytona Beach Chapter (EAA Chapter 288). Scouts can pre-register at the Aviation Merit Badge workshop.

== Aviation Merit Badge Workshop== based on requirements for BSA Aviation merit badge


 * 9:30am - 12noon Sat April 6, 2013 - New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest April 5-7, 2013


 * put preprinted checklist sticker in YE logbook - initial/sign as complete each requirement
 * online prep - video, animation, diagrams, reading, quiz
 * signup for YE flight online, permission form ?

For most of history, people have dreamed of flying, imagining how it would feel to soar through the sky like an eagle or hover in midair like a hummingbird, to float on unseen currents, free of Earth's constant tug, able to travel great distances and to rise above any obstacle. Today, through aviation, we can not only join the birds but also fly farther, faster, and higher than they ever could.


 * Scouts in groups of 4-6
 * 9:30am intro (10), 9:40 activity 1, 10:05am activity 2, 10:30 activity 3, 11:00 career panel, 11:30 wrapup (30)
 * 3 activity centers, wrapup 25min each + 10min intro, ? snack

Intro
 * outline
 * airport - layout, safety

Activity 1 - flight, control surfaces
 * DBRCA - radio controlled aircraft, simulators

Activity 2 - pre-flight walkaround, instruments
 * EAA / flight school - airplane, Bristow - helicopter, Commemorative Air Force - military

Activity 3 - hands-on,
 * foam plate glider

Careers panel
 * commercial / instructor - Andre - types of licenses
 * ATC - Stu /Eileen - airspace
 * aeronautical engineer - Matt - prop, jet, turbine
 * maintenance ? Airgate, ? restoration - inspections, fixing stuff that breaks

Wrapup
 * navigation - sectional, YE flight route
 * Young Eagles flight - info, forms, signup
 * BSA Aviation Merit Badge "blue cards"

Requirements

1. Do the following:


 * Define "aircraft." Describe some kinds and uses of aircraft today. Explain the operation of piston, turboprop, and jet engines.
 * Point out on a model airplane the forces that act on an airplane in flight.
 * 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.
 * Demonstrate how the control surfaces of an airplane are used for takeoff, straight climb, level turn, climbing turn, descending turn, straight descent, and landing.
 * Explain the following: the recreational pilot and the private pilot certificates; the instrument rating.


 * parts of an airplane, 4 forces of light, quiz,why and airplane flies, control surfaces


 * Forces on an airplane video - good explantion

2. Do TWO of the following:
 * Take a flight in an aircraft, with your parent's permission. Record the date, place, type of aircraft, and duration of flight, and report on your impressions of the flight.
 * Under supervision, perform a preflight inspection of a light airplane.
 * Obtain and learn how to read an aeronautical chart. Measure a true course on the chart. Correct it for magnetic variation, compass deviation, and wind drift. Arrive at a compass heading.


 * 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.


 * flight instruments

3. Do ONE of the following:


 * Build a model FPG-9. Get others in your troop or patrol to make their own model, then organize a competition to test the precision of flight and landing of the models.


 * video, pattern resources

4. Do ONE of the following:
 * Visit an airport. After the visit, report on how the facilities are used, how runways are numbered, and how runways are determined to be "active."

5. Find out about three career opportunities in aviation. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.
 * guest speakers - commercial, military, ATC, A&P, FAA, NASA, airshow performer, flight instructor, aerospace / aeronautical engineer - people to talk about each
 * careers in aviation and aerospace

== Learn more...==
 * NASA apps - Apple iOS, Android - Sector 33, NASA App, ISS Live, NASA Desert RATS, NASA HIAD
 * Lift (force) - more complex description, includes discussion why "usual" description is wrong

== Girl Scout Aerospace merit badge ==


 * Girl Scouts - WAI kit, Ninety Nines
 * Junior Girl Scouts - primer


 * sample volunteer briefing

Aerospace http://www.girlscoutsofpaloalto.org/badge2.html#aerospace Requirements
 * 1) Paper Airplanes. Make and fly 3 different designs for paper airplanes.
 * 2) Test Flight. Make simple glider and learn to fly it.
 * 3) Go Fly a Kit. Make and fly your own kite.
 * 4) Think Sky High. Visit place related to air travel.
 * 5) Models Away. Watch and learn about model planes.
 * 6) Shoot for the Stars. Watch a space launch -OR- visit NASA's Web site.
 * 7) Contact! Talk to older people about air travel before 1960.
 * 8) Space Flight Spinoffs. Explore science and technology from space travel.
 * Up, UP, and Away! Put on an air show.
 * 1) Women Flying Sky High. Learn about women pilots and astronauts.