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Basic Wing Course - Contact Stage

In the stage of training the fundamentals of flight under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) will be taught. Lots of practice for take offs, landings, and touch-and-goes. Build new Aviator´s confidence as these maneuvers are repeated day-in-day-out. Landings are done in the military overhead traffic pattern - distinctly different than civilian traffic patterns. Also, you will be practicing simulated emergency procedures including no flap landings, engine-out, and forced landing procedures.

Enter and recover from the (practice) spin maneuver on most of the Contact sorties as well in order to perfect your response in the event that you find yourself actually entering a spin. You will start all your contact work with a G-Awareness Exercise (G-Ex) that tests your G-tolerance that day, and gets you warmed up.

In the designed training areas, you will perform stalls, spins, and recoveries from both.

Initially, you will be working on your habit patterns, building a good "flow" for your ground operations (groundops) and establishing a good instrument cross-check. In the landing pattern, you will be working on pacing, radio calls, clearing outside of the aircraft, and of course landing the plane. To help you memorize and execute these procedures, you will find yourself chairflying these maneuvers at home and also spending a lot of time in the cockpit flight trainers at the squadron. These trainers are mock cockpits complete with all instruments and dials and gages and even the flight stick. Lots of repetition and visualization help you commit the normal and emergency procedures to memory.

After proving proficient at these maneuvers, you will practice aerobatics - to include the loop, immelman, split-s, cuban-eight, clover leaf, barrel roll, chandelle, lazy-8, and aileron roll.

Your confidence will soar as you take the plane solo - first in the traffic pattern only, then out to the working areas to perform aerobatics. Nothing beats walking out to the plane alone and flying it without the instructor!

Updated On: 11.09.30