The RTH February 21-22 Meeting Series served over 70 people. Friday was held via Zoom, and De Marco Best hosted Saturday at the Alaska Airlines Flight Training Center, WA.
Friday Zoom: David Benton III, CP, IR, facilitated the meeting and presented the Pilot Talk, focusing on his experience and lessons learned in college and earning his private pilot license. The PHAK lesson covered airspace and navigation. The meeting concluded with discussing different STEM careers in preparation for the history lesson.
Saturday at Alaska Airlines: We started with a tour of the facilities. Next, everyone watched a NASA film, Connecting the Underground Railroad to STEM, and then we connected the UR directly to aviation in terms of communication, navigation, and weight and balance.
Afterward, the students were pulled out in small groups to experience landing a Boeing 737 simulator. During this period, 40 students not in the simulator reviewed airspace and navigation and participated in a navigation exercise using sectional charts, plotters, and E6-B flight computers to plan a cross-country flight.
Afterward, they led 40 students in describing the Artemis ROADS III challenge and activity to build three prototype water filters for testing.
