Aviation Skills
To gain this badge, Explorer Scouts must fulfil the requirements below:
- Know the rules relating to access to airfields as laid down in Policy, Organisation and Rules.
- Draw a map or make a model of an airfield to show and name the different areas.
- List the main types of aircraft. Identify the parts of an aircraft. Explain how the control surfaces work and are controlled.
- Identify either from pictures or in-flight twelve aircraft in common use today. Include at least two civil commercial aircraft, two military aircraft and two private light aircraft.
- Know the types of air maps and the conventional signs used on them.
- Explain how wind speed and direction are measured and how weather can affect air activities
- Demonstrate how to obtain a local forecast for an air activity.
- Recite the phonetic alphabet and explain why it is used.
- Take part in an air experience flight and point out on an air map the features that are over flown. (This can be undertaken in powered aircraft, glider, balloon, airship etc)
- From the list of Aviation Skills training activities, complete a further six items from at least four different sections.