03Academy

Aviation

How aircraft fly, who is responsible for them, and what a hundred and twenty years of accidents taught the people who fly them now.

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Aviation Foundation cover art

Aviation is where the Academy starts, because it is the field where the physics is visible, the consequences are documented, and almost every rule can be traced to the day something happened. The track begins with Foundation and builds from there.

Chapters written
14
Interactive models
7
Quick checks
30
Reading
~6.8 hours

Levels

Foundation

Nine chapters from the four forces to the accident chain, what holds an aircraft up, what the rules are protecting, and why the decisions that matter most are made before anyone leaves the ground.

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Chapters
9
Reading
3.9 hours
Models
7
Quick checks
16

Aviation Foundation

9 chapters

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Intermediate

A repeatable planning process for a real domestic trip: VFR airports and routing, weather and performance, IFR readiness and filing, approaches and alternates, and the go/no-go decision that ties it together.

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Chapters
5
Reading
2.8 hours
Models
0
Quick checks
14

Cross-Country Flight Planning: VFR, IFR & Go/No-Go

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What is in Foundation

What is in Intermediate