Fixed-wing Instructor Flight Lab

Catalog description

This is the culminating course intended to prepare students for roles as fixed-wing unmanned aircraft flight instructors. This course furthers develop and refine the flying skills necessary to assume control of the aircraft during adverse circumstances or unusual aircraft attitudes induced by a less experienced pilot. The fixed-wing instructor-in-training is required to demonstrate, in practice, the skills and knowledge obtained in earlier courses covering crew resource management and flight instruction as well as achievement of a high level of piloting skills. Upon successful completion of this course, the student is qualified as a K-State instructor on fixed-wing platforms and as pilot-in-command/operator-in-command during research missions authorized by the unmanned aircraft systems program.