Reflection!

PART ONE: Two Hour Presentation


1. Student Assessment- AE

I Believe I had taught many new concepts and new information to all the students. They were very engaged in the presentation and all the activities really helped my messages sink in.

2. What are you most proud of in your two hour presentation? Why?

I am definitely proud of every single part of my presentation, the fact that I knew everything I was talking about really made me confident. I am really proud of the fact that most people took things seriously and actually tried their hardest to do all my activities.


PART TWO: Overall Senior Project Experience


3. What do you think you did well on in the project? What do you think you could have done better? Explain.
I met all the deadlines, I am so glad I recieved an AE on my I-Search and my exit interview, they made me feel like everything that I did and all the stress I had been through had paid off in the end.
4. What is your EQ and what is your best answer?
          - What is the best reason for getting an instrument rating?

My best answer is Continuity of flight

I made sure to make everything in my whole senior project as strong as I could, this made my foundation very strong and pushed me hard to agree with my planned products for every single project. I feel that the senior project really synergized with my life goals and it helped my senior project look fluid.
5. How has the last month of culminating events affected your answer to you EQ? Has it changed? Why or why not?
The last month made my life really bad, I am still working so hard on my instrument rating and it really affected the meaning of my EQ. I am very glad that I learned that my best answer truely was my best answer.
6. What suggestions do you have in order to improve the Senior Project?
          - I believe time management was a major issue that the senior team had. Communication between each teacher got annoying because I didn't know what was do at what point and I didn't know what any day was about at any given time.

7. Overall Senior Project Assessment- AE

Service Learning Final

Literal

Date	Person	Responsibility	Time
12/30	H.L. Stevens	Help aid teaching	4:30 Hours
1/1	H.L. Stevens	Help aid teaching	4:30 Hours
2/5	H.L. Stevens	Help aid teaching	4:00 Hours
3/15	Ken Bos	Clean planes, Help fix planes	3:00 Hours
3/31	H.L. Stevens	Help aid teaching	4:00 Hours
4/5	Ken Bos	Clean Planes, Help fix planes	1:30 Hours
4/10	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help fly, aid in teaching Safety Pilot	5:00 Hours
4/20	H.L. Stevens	Help Teach, work with student	4:00 Hours
4/23	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help fly, aid in teaching Safety Pilot	5:00 Hours
4/27	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help fly, aid in teaching Safety Pilot	5:00 Hours
5/1	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help fly, aid in teaching Safety Pilot	4:30 Hours
5/5	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help fly, aid in teaching Safety Pilot	5:00 Hours
5/8	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help fly, aid in teaching Safety Pilot	5:00 Hours
5/12	Joy (H.L. Stevens)*	Help aid teaching	2:45 Hours
		TOTAL	57:45 Hours

* Flights with joy were only advised by H.L. Stevens

Contact:
H.L. Stevens: 1(909)606-0747

Ken Bos: 1(909)606-0747

Interpretive
I have gained experience in the field of aviation and also I have began a great network from the aviation field.
Joy really taught me what it means to be a pilot and how instruments are very hard to fly. It gave me an intense feel for IFR.

Applied
Joy helped me understand the necessity of precision and safety en route. These later became my 2 answers that gave me my best answer. This is important when flight under IFR and Joy was rusty which made me understand how safety and precision is essential for an instrument rating.

2 Hour Presentation (Rough Draft)

(1) What is your sponge activity?

1. I will brief the students on what to do on the ramp, have them go into a pitch-black room, and have them walk around blindly for 5-10 seconds. Then I will turn on the lights and show them that they are actually walking into a ground bordered with mountains. 

2. How it will be done (materials included): I will only need tape for this activity

3. How the activity relates to answer: This example is perfect to show how instrument flight is preformed in clouds and obscured weather.

(2) What do you plan to do and say in the introduction?

Talking about what I do, what I’m involved in and where I plan on going with my schooling, explain what instrument flight is in the simplest context and finish off by my game.

(3) What do you plan to say in your foundation?

Explain how my essential question is related to safety, precision, and continuity of flight. I will explain a bit of the history and why it is necessary to use instruments at times. What IFR is, IMC is, and how they differ from VFR

(4) What will your 2 or 3 answers be for your 2-hour?

1. Precision: I will teach what navigational-aids gives and how hard it is to fly the VOR’s/ NDB’s, especially in the winds.

2.      Safety: I will teach what it means to be safe en route, how a pilot learns safety, how I got my solo privileges, how I preformed for my private pilots license, how I will/have preformed for my instrument rating.

3.      Continuity of flight: I will talk about what it means to fly without an instrument rating, how an instrument rating greatly increases your capability of flight with an instrument rating, and how essential the rating is to advance in aviation industry.

(5) What activities will you do for each answer and why?

Safety: I will play a game called copy that clearance; this is where I will record 3-4 clearances that would most likely be given by ATC. I teaching them how to copy with shorthand will precede this.

Precision: I will TRY to get a simulator on the desktops and get the students to pair in groups of three. I will tell the exactly what to do and show them how hard it is to do.

Continuity of flight: I will throw a bunch of scenarios at the students and see how they would act in the event of it. The FAA sent me a DVD that has a great simulation for private pilots.

(6) How do you plan to conclude your 2-hour?

Private pilots who want to keep flying need to learn safety and precision to advance up to more and intense flight. The instrument rating demands that a private pilot be precise and safe in order to receive the rating. And earning an instrument rating keeps a pilot in the air.

 

(7) How do you plan to decorate the room?

Theme: Cloud cut outs, navigational charts, airplanes hanging from the ceiling,

(8) What supplies/resources will you need to make your 2-hour possible? 

I will need an Elmo, projector with a laptop cable, 9 desktops, paper, blindfolds, timers, and whiteboard markers.

Independent Task #2

Attatched below is the time I have flown in my Microsoft Flight Simulator X, it helps me better understand IFR by trying to fly IFR without instruments and get the feel for what spacial disorientation actually means.

Date	Aircraft	From	To	Day	Night	Total	Accumulated
2/26	B737	KDCA	KJFK	1.2	0.0	1.2	52.0
2/27	B737	KDCA	KJFK	0.0	0.9	0.9	52.9
2/28	B747	KPHI	KJFK	0.0	0.5	0.5	53.4
3/1	Cessna 172	KCNO	KLAX	1.0	0.0	1.0	54.4
3/2	CRJ700	KDCA	KJFK	1.2	0.0	1.2	52.0
3/3	B747	KLAX	KSFO	1.3	0.0	1.3	53.3
Mar 4	B737	KLAX	KSFO	0.0	1.3	1.3	54.6
3/4/11	B747	KLAX	KLAS	0.0	1.1	1.1	55.7
3/5	B747	KSFO	KDEN	2.2	0.3	2.5	58.2
3/6	B737	KLAX	KPHX	1.6	0.0	1.6	59.8
3/7	LJ45	KDEN	KLAX	2.8	0.0	2.8	62.6
3/9	B747	KLAX	KDEN	3.1	0.0	3.1	65.7
3/13	LJ45	KONT	KPSP	1.1	0.0	1.1	66.8
3/21	B737	KLAX	KPOR	2.0	0.1	2.1	68.9
3/25	Cessna 172	KCNO	KVCV	0.3	0.9	1.2	70.1
3/31	CRJ700	KLAX	KDEN	0.0	3.2	3.2	73.2
4/2	B737	KLAX	KDFW	2.1	0.7	2.8	76.0
4/6	LJ45	KDCA	KMIA	2.9	1.1	4.0	80.0
4/14	B747	KDCA	KCHI	2.1	0.0	2.1	82.1
4/15	B747	KPHX	KSLC	0.2	1.6	1.8	83.9
4/16	Baron 58	KLAX	KLBG	0.4	0.0	0.4	84.3
4/21	C-172	KCNO	KLAS	3.2	0.0	3.2	87.5
4/25	C-172	KCNO	KPSP	1.1	0.4	1.5	89.0
4/27	B747	KLAX	KHON	4.3	0.6	4.9	93.9
4/28	B737	KLAX	KSLC	3.2	0.0	3.2	97.1
						Total	97.1

My total simulator time was 97.1 from 1st task and 2nd but the second task is equal to 45.1

Attached below is my logbook flights that have also been given by my flight instructor, it has helped me learn what IFR really is about and how it is actually flown.



My total actual flight time is 18.1 hours

Attached below is ground school totals, this has encompassed all second semester and is a building block for my IFR Rating.

The Total amount of ground school equals 17.7 hours

Ground-17.7

Flight-18.1

Simulator-45.1

TOTAL: 80.9 HOURS

Literal: I, Nathanial Stewart, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 80.9 hours of my work. I took ground school courses with my service learning, flew a Cessna 172/n with my Service learning and flew Microsoft flight simulator X.

Applied: The instrument rating is very academic and needs alot of time to really understand all the aspects behind the actual Rating itself. Flying, ground school and simulating my work.

Interpreted: My independent task helped me realize that there is so much more behind IFR than actual flying. This was so important for my answers that it actually helped me find 2 of my 3 answers. The safety and precision aspects of my answers were discovered by the amount of flight I had to undergo.