An advanced aviation ground course designed to prepare a student for the FAA Instrument Airplane rating written examination.

This course explores the fundamentals of effective oral presentation to small and large groups. Topic selection, audience analysis, methods of organization, research, structuring evidence and support, delivery techniques, and other essential elements of speaking successfully, including the listening process, form the basis of the course.

In this course, learners will apply private pilot ground knowledge to actual and simulated scenarios presented by the instructor. Upon completion of this course, learners will have demonstrated the ability to apply private pilot aerodynamics, aircraft systems and instruments, regulations, weather, airport operations, navigation, and human factors knowledge to scenarios presented by an evaluator in oral and practical examination settings.

All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts.

This course examines interpersonal relationships of humans and groups and the consequent structure of society. It details the various social processes and concepts which shape human behavior, analyzing such phenomena as organizations, deviance, race and ethnic relations, population, urbanization, social change, and social movements. Religion, education, and the family are studied.

In this course, learners build on basic aircraft operation and control skills to navigate the airplane by visual references and radio navigation aids and at night. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to plan and execute pilotage, dead reckoning and night flights, complete and maintain a navigation log, and to safely fly solely by reference to the instruments.

In this course, learners apply aeronautical knowledge and practice the aeronautical skills of maneuvering and cross-country flight needed to meet the minimum standards required to qualify for a private pilot certificate. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to demonstrate the knowledge, skill, and risk management requirements and will recieve an endorsement for an FAA Private Pilot Practical Exam.

Covers basic concepts of aviation meteorology including temperature, pressure, moisture, stability, clouds, air masses, fronts, thunderstorms, icing and fog. Analysis and use of weather data for flight planning and safe flying and interpretation of U.S. Weather Bureau maps, reports and forecast are discussed.

Principles of aircraft engine theory and operation including construction, lubrication, carburetion, ignition, supercharging and propellers. Principles of aircraft structures including basic stresses, types of construction, advantage of each type and an overview of FAA repair procedures.

This course is designed for learners to develop knowledge and skills in all aspects of the writing process. Planning, organizing, writing, editing and revising are applied through a variety of activities. Students will analyze audience and purpose, use elements of research, and format documents using standard guidelines. Individuals will develop critical reading skills through analysis of various written documents.