Overview
In Basic Aeronautical Practice you will receive basic flight training in the training area and circuit area prior to your first solo flight. This unit will provide you with up to 13 hours of basic aeronautical experience in a small general aviation aeroplane. You will learn how to control an aircraft and maintain it at a constant altitude, heading and speed. You will learn how to change altitude, make turns and manoeuvre the aircraft. You will learn how to recognise the symptoms of entry and how to recover from a stall. This should enable you to fly as pilot in command of an aircraft in the circuit area of the training aerodrome. You will be required to attend a flight training provider approved by the Head of Course in order to complete this unit.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Co-requisite: AVAT11002 Basic Aeronautical Knowledge
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Feedback
The best aspects of this unit was the integration of the practical component with the theory.
Will be continued.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator observation and Student Feedback
Selection of student representatives for advice and support to students.
Student representatives have been selected and a feedback process during the flight practical has also been incorporated.
Feedback from Student Feedback
Great lecturer. It was very helpful how he set clear expectations and communicated with me when I asked questions.
Normal practise.
Feedback from Student Feedback
It would be helpful if the unit would have a weekly quiz. It would help students to comprehend better of what was taught during the lecture.
This will be evaluated.
Feedback from UC observation
Low student feedback.
With the introduction of an additional general Aviation Moodle page students will be once more advised to fill out the student feedback forms at the end of the term. Further, students will be sent additional emails to fill out the student feedback before the end of the term.
- Explain how to fly an aeroplane in all manoeuvres involved in a circuit and approach to a runway
- Control an aircraft translationally and rotationally in flight
- Fly an aircraft at a constant altitude, heading and airspeed
- Manoeuvre an aircraft to nominated altitude at constant airspeed and heading
- Perform various turns on to a particular heading
- Recognise the symptoms and recover from a stall
- Fly a circuit and approach to a runway under various conditions
- Communicate appropriately with aeronautical staff.
N/A. No external accreditation
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Online Test - 0% | ||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 0% | ||||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||||
| 10 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||||||
| 11 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
| 1 - Online Test - 0% | |||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 0% | |||||||||||
Textbooks
Basic Aeronautical Knowledge including Human Factors
- (2018)
- Authors: David Robson
- Aviation Theory
- Brisbane Brisbane , QLD , Australia
- Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
If you prefer to study with a paper copy, they can be purchased at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code). eBooks can be purchased at the publisher's website.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.mueckenhausen@cqu.edu.au
m.malouf@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 13 Jul 2020Module/Topic
Introduction to Basic Aeronautical Knowledge
Effects of Controls Flight Lecture
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
All lectures will be available through Moodle
Week 2
Begin Date: 20 Jul 2020Module/Topic
Straight and Level and Climbing and Descending Flight Lectures
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
All lectures will be available through Moodle
Week 3
Begin Date: 27 Jul 2020Module/Topic
Medium Level Turns, Climbing and Descending Turns Flight Lectures
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
All lectures will be available through Moodle
Week 4
Begin Date: 03 Aug 2020Module/Topic
Stalling and Circuits Flight Lectures
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
All lectures will be available through Moodle
Week 5
Begin Date: 10 Aug 2020Module/Topic
Flight School Visits
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Undertaken at the flight school
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 17 Aug 2020Module/Topic
Flight School Visits
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Undertaken at the flight school
Week 6
Begin Date: 24 Aug 2020Module/Topic
Effects of Controls and Straight and Level Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Flight practicals undertaken at flight school.
Week 7
Begin Date: 31 Aug 2020Module/Topic
Climbing and Descending and Medium Level Turns Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 8
Begin Date: 07 Sep 2020Module/Topic
Climbing and Descending and Medium Level Turns Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 9
Begin Date: 14 Sep 2020Module/Topic
Circuits Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 10
Begin Date: 21 Sep 2020Module/Topic
Circuits and Flapless Circuits Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 11
Begin Date: 28 Sep 2020Module/Topic
Circuits and Glide Approaches Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 12
Begin Date: 05 Oct 2020Module/Topic
Engine Failures After Take-off and Solo Circuit Flight Practical
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 12 Oct 2020Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam Week
Begin Date: 19 Oct 2020Module/Topic
Flight Practical Examination
End of term online test.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
There will be a 2 hours final end of term test.
Online end of term test (50%) Due: Exam Week Wednesday (21 Oct 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
1 Online Test
This will be a 2 hour test on the flight briefings and lecturers. The test needs to be passed with > 70% and will be held during the end of term exam weeks (week 13).
Exam Week Wednesday (21 Oct 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Test will be held in week 13 during normal lecture time
This will be a series of multiple choice questions.
- Explain how to fly an aeroplane in all manoeuvres involved in a circuit and approach to a runway
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Ethical practice
2 Practical Assessment
In order to pass the Practical Flight Test a student will need to perform all flight manoeuvres at first solo standard.
13.5 total hours flown and solo check completed and all verified by respective flight provider
In order to pass the Practical Flight Test a student will need to perform all flight manoeuvres to first solo standard.
No submission method provided.
- Control an aircraft translationally and rotationally in flight
- Fly an aircraft at a constant altitude, heading and airspeed
- Manoeuvre an aircraft to nominated altitude at constant airspeed and heading
- Perform various turns on to a particular heading
- Recognise the symptoms and recover from a stall
- Fly a circuit and approach to a runway under various conditions
- Communicate appropriately with aeronautical staff.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Team Work
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