AOPA Pilot Magazine - November 2014 - 101
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ENGINE
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A fifth-grade education
BY WILLIAM E. DUBOIS
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ANDREW BAKER
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I FELT FULLY QUALIFIED to take on the simple-sounding request when my son's teacher
asked, "Could you come talk to my fifthgrade class about how to fly an airplane?"
I hold both advanced and instrument
ground instructor certificates, so without
fully considering the consequences, I said,
"Sure thing, I'd be happy to." But as I sat
down late that night to draw up the lesson plan-fortified with a glass of red wine
and prepared with blank pad of paper-I
realized just how challenging my task was
going to be.
After all, how do you fly an airplane?
Well, to know how to fly an airplane, you
first need to know a few things about how
airplanes work. And to know a few things
about how airplanes work, you need some
basic understanding of aerodynamics. And
to have some basic understanding of aerodynamics, you need some fundamental physics
under your belt. And on it goes.
Where to start? Plus, most of the kids
in the fifth grade are 10 and 11 years old.
How much detail would be too much?
How much detail would be too little?
What kinds of questions might they ask?
And once I solved those problems, how did
I make the experience hands-on? We learn
better with our hearts and hands than we
do with our ears and brains.
I knew this was an opportunity to
expose the next generation to the joys of
flight, and I keenly felt the responsibility to
do it right. I had to make it educational and
age-appropriate, but I also had to make it
fun. I had to bring flying into the classroom.
Or did I?
Perhaps a field trip was in order.
THE PLAN
It took a few calls-well, more than a few-
but I managed to arrange a two-pronged
learning experience. I would come into the
classroom for a few hours one week to set
the stage with a little talk and a flight simulator, and the next week the kids would
pile into a school bus and head out to their
"home" airport, where they would get
a tour of the historic field from the local
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