Graduation Flight
Big Idea
You can fly! From engine start to shutdown, this is your flight to show everything you have learned.
Fun Fact
Congratulations — you have completed 42 flight lessons! You know more about flying than most adults. The sky is yours!
Challenge
Can you complete the entire flight — start to shutdown — without any help from the instructor?
What You Will Learn
- Start the engine from cold and dark
- Taxi to the runway with wind correction
- Take off, fly the pattern, and land
- Park, shut down, and secure the airplane
Simulator Steps
- Engine start: master on, mixture rich, start, avionics on
- Taxi to the runway — checklist, wind correction, hold short
- Take off — full power, rotate, climb to pattern altitude
- Fly the traffic pattern with radio calls
- Land, taxi back, shut down: avionics off, mixture cutoff, master off
What You Learned
- You completed a full flight from start to finish!
- You used checklists, radio calls, and proper procedures
- You are a young aviator — keep flying!