Nathanial S. East House



Topic: Instrument Rating



Essential Question: What is the best reason for getting an instrument rating?



Thursday, May 26, 2011

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

Friday, May 13, 2011

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.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

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.