Students who successfully pass the course are expected to have the following knowledge, skills, and behaviors:
- Knowledge of functions of basic aircraft components, such as wing, vertical fin, ailerons, rudder, etc.
- Understanding of how each of these components works during a flight of an aircraft.
- Fundamental understanding of aerodynamic forces and moments, corresponding coefficients, and their variation with the angle of attack.
- An ability to calculate density, pressure and temperature variations in standard atmosphere.
- Fundamental concepts on atmospheric flight and aircraft motion.
- An understanding of fundamental parameters affecting aircraft performance in various simplified motions, such as straight flight, constant velocity climb, descend, etc.
- An ability to formulate and analyze aircraft performance.
- Ability to make ethical choices.