How to earn your badge:

1. Trim a paper aeroplane or model glider to glide, stall and turn, then find out how an aircraft’s trimming, weight and balance can affect its flight.

2. Draw a runway and the circuit pattern that planes follow, then explain how air traffic control uses this circuit to keep planes safe and communicate with pilots.

3. Learn how the wind’s speed and direction are measured, then find out why they’re important during take-off and landing.

4. Complete any four of the following:

   1. Try an air-based activity and share what you learned.

      This could be something from our air activities list, travelling on a plane or an activity you've agreed with your group volunteer.

   2. Find out about the roles and responsibilities of flight crew members, such as pilots, co-pilots, engineers or cabin crew.
   3. Simulate a take-off and landing using a flight simulator.

      This could be done online, on an app, on a computer game or as an immersive experience. 

   4. Explain why pilot's (and other flight crew) use a pre-flight checklist.

      Describe the main items that are checked. 

   5. Explore the different types of emergency radio calls used in aviation, such as mayday and pan-pan
   6. Follow the flight path of an aircraft using maps and satellite images and see how landmarks help pilots find their way.

      You could map the route using Google Maps, Ordnance Survey maps, or an aviation chart.

   7. Learn why Morse code is still used by navigational beacons and recognise six three-letter sequences.