So, last week was the first one with me sitting back in a classroom. Not an easy drop in the sense that it HAS been a while since I last spent time absorbing information in that form, but I did manage to sponge up most of what was said.
The e-learning material I got is somewhat intense and I've got to say that absorbing all of it in a weeks time was a plunge directly into the deep end and I've got a LOT of work to do before Thursdays exams on all three subjects. Those subjects are Principles of Flight (POF), Aircraft General Knowledge (AGK) and Mass and Balance (M&B). Not the lightest subjects I tell you.
I have to admit that I've thought of all this before and still it feels a little absurd. It's great that we are to be generalists in all subjects touching on aviation. Then again we are supposed to be specialists in the specific skill of flying an aircraft and bringing it safely to the ground (hopefully at the destination) no matter the circumstances. That being said, I still do think that in some subjects we are dwelling a little too deeply into the rabbit hole. It's great that I get to know exactly how each type of an electric generator works and how to calculate the resistance in each system, but I'm not 100% certain that this knowledge will be practically used while flying an aircraft. Knock on wood, but if I ever find myself in an aircraft that will fall to the earth if I can't figure out the exact resistance in the lavatory's lighting system, I will be the first to admit that I was dead wrong. Stay in school kids! Better safe than sorry.
And I'm sure that someone much wiser and more experienced is the one who set the standard, so better just to suck it up and get on with it!
This one is a little shorter (and no pictures of the school still, sorry kids!) but I promise at the end of this week, I'll have some proper pictures from the school itself.
The e-learning material I got is somewhat intense and I've got to say that absorbing all of it in a weeks time was a plunge directly into the deep end and I've got a LOT of work to do before Thursdays exams on all three subjects. Those subjects are Principles of Flight (POF), Aircraft General Knowledge (AGK) and Mass and Balance (M&B). Not the lightest subjects I tell you.
I have to admit that I've thought of all this before and still it feels a little absurd. It's great that we are to be generalists in all subjects touching on aviation. Then again we are supposed to be specialists in the specific skill of flying an aircraft and bringing it safely to the ground (hopefully at the destination) no matter the circumstances. That being said, I still do think that in some subjects we are dwelling a little too deeply into the rabbit hole. It's great that I get to know exactly how each type of an electric generator works and how to calculate the resistance in each system, but I'm not 100% certain that this knowledge will be practically used while flying an aircraft. Knock on wood, but if I ever find myself in an aircraft that will fall to the earth if I can't figure out the exact resistance in the lavatory's lighting system, I will be the first to admit that I was dead wrong. Stay in school kids! Better safe than sorry.
And I'm sure that someone much wiser and more experienced is the one who set the standard, so better just to suck it up and get on with it!
This one is a little shorter (and no pictures of the school still, sorry kids!) but I promise at the end of this week, I'll have some proper pictures from the school itself.
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| The three plane types currently in use at the school. From left to right: Tecnam P 2002 JF (still in use for basic training) Diamond DA40 (the new workhorse for basic training) Diamond DA42 (the MEP-training plane) |
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