Academic Flight Program Orientation

COL Rich Melnyk conducted an orientation flight in one of the department’s C-182 aircraft with the Vice Dean for Operations, COL Mike Yankovich. The two discussed the history and overall purpose of the flight lab program and conducted an overview of the aircraft. In flight, COL Melnyk demonstrated many of the aerodynamic principles and procedures that the department uses on all three flight laboratories including high and low G flight, static and dynamic stability, stalls, and control coupling.