Overview
This unit will provide you with the knowledge required to plan a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) flight in a small commercial aircraft. You will learn how to interpret small commercial aircraft performance data. From meteorological forecasts, you will determine the appropriate route, altitude, and alternate aerodromes. You will also learn how to conduct a weight and balance assessment for a flight.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: AVAT12008 Meteorology (Commercial Pilot Licence); AVAT12009 Navigation (Commercial Pilot Licence) and AVAT11006 Aviation Law
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 - 2022
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 graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
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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 Evaluation
The knowledge was very useful in real life.
Continuing to ensure the content is relevant and contemporary.
Feedback from Student Evaluation
Late return of assessments and the complexity of the assessments.
- Change assessment due dates to align better with UC availability. - Details of the assessment will be discussed in tutorials. - Ensure complexity of the assessment is consistent with the professional (CASA) standard.
- Interpret small commercial aircraft performance data
- Critically analyse appropriate route, altitude, and aerodromes using forecast meteorological conditions
- Calculate weight and balance and prepare a load sheet for a small commercial aircraft
- Prepare a small commercial aircraft Visual Flight Rules (VFR) flight plan, including navigation plan and fuel plan
- Exercise judgement in the flight planning process for small commercial aircraft.
N/A
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 40% | |||||
| 2 - Examination - 60% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 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 - 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 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 40% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Examination - 60% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Aircraft Operation, Performance and Planning
Edition: 6th (2019)
Authors: David Robson
Aviation Theory Centre Pty Ltd
Brisbane Brisbane , Australia
ISBN: 978-1-875537-27-3
Binding: Hardcover
CPL Performance
(2020)
Authors: Bob Tait
Australia
Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
Paper copies can be purchased at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code). eBooks can be purchased directly from the publishers.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
No referencing style set.
c.bernecic@cqu.edu.au
a.ranganathan@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Aerodrome & Aeroplane Landing Areas ALA's)
Chapter
Chapter 1 - ATC
Topic 1 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 1 & 1A and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Aircraft Performance - Part 1
a. Factors affecting performance
b. Density Altitude and pressure height calculation using various methods.
Flight computer, flow chart
Chapter
Chapter 2 - ATC
Topic 2 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 2 & 2A and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Aircraft Performance - Part 2
a. Understanding Climb, Cruise, Enroute, Descent performance.
b. Range and Endurance
Chapter
Chapter 2 - ATC
Topic 3 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 3 and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Aircraft Performance - Part 3
a. Echo performance charts and tables.
b. Take-off, Landing and Climb weight limited charts Question and Exercises
Chapter
Chapter 3 - ATC
Topic 4 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 4 (a) 4A (b) and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
ECHO performance charts and tables and Exercise 4.8
Chapter
Topic 4 pages 87 to108 CPL Performance Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 4B and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Alternate and holding fuel
Chapter
Chapter 7 - ATC
Topic 5 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 4C and Tutorial.
Mid-Term quiz Due: Week 6 Tuesday (23 Aug 2022) 2:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Equi-Time Points (ETP) and Point of No Return (PNR)
Chapter
Chapter 7 - ATC
Topic 5 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 4D and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Flight Planning - Part 1
Determining operational weights MTOW, MLW, MZFW. Using Beetle diagram to find fuel limits
Chapter
Chapter 4 - ATC
Topic 6 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 5 Part 1 and Tutorial.
Discussion - Assignment submission.
Module/Topic
Flight Planning - Part 2
Calculate weight and balance data for various loading systems Alpha, Bravo, Charlie as CoG limits using loading and P charts
Chapter
Chapter 4 - ATC
Topic 6 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 5 Part 2 and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Flight Planning - Part 3
ECHO Loading weight and balance performance and CoG limits
ECHO weight and balance restrictions and adjustments of CoG using various methods practice questions
Chapter
Chapter 5 - ATC
Topic 6 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 5 Part 3 and Tutorial.
Lecture 5 Part 4 and Tutorial
Module/Topic
Flight Planning
Airworthiness and Equipment
Chapter
Chapter 8 - ATC
Topic 7 - Bob Tait
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture 6 and Tutorial.
Lecture 7 and Tutorial
Module/Topic
Flight Planning and Loading - Overall Review
Chapter
Review CPL Exam
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture and Tutorial.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Online Quiz(zes)
- This online quiz will test your understanding of the underlying concepts discussed so far including take-off, en route and landing performance.
- It will cover the lecture material in the slides up to and including the first five weeks.
Other
Week 6 Tuesday (23 Aug 2022) 2:00 pm AEST
This quiz is weighted at 40% of your final grade and there is no pass or fail mark alloted
Any material from weeks 1 to 12 may be assessed. The quiz will consist of multiple-choice questions and will test your underlying knowledge of core concepts required for Operational flight planning and performance.
In particular, you will be assessed on your ability to:
- · identify performance limitations
- · calculate performance in given conditions
- · interpret the effect a given factor will have on performance
- Aerodrome ALA's
- Performance charts (take-off, landing, Climb and descent)
- Weight and balance
- Interpret small commercial aircraft performance data
- Critically analyse appropriate route, altitude, and aerodromes using forecast meteorological conditions
- Calculate weight and balance and prepare a load sheet for a small commercial aircraft
- Prepare a small commercial aircraft Visual Flight Rules (VFR) flight plan, including navigation plan and fuel plan
- Exercise judgement in the flight planning process for small commercial aircraft.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
Examination
Calculator - non-programmable, no text retrieval, silent only
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