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Aviation Merit Badge
Requirements
Source - Boy Scout Requirements 2006
Last Revised - January 1, 2001
- Do the following:
- Define "aircraft." Describe some kinds and uses of aircraft today. Explain the operation
of piston, turboprop, and jet engines.
- Point out on a model airplane the forces that act on an airplane in flight.
- Explain how an airfoil generates lift, how the primary control surfaces (ailerons,
elevators, and rudder) affect the airplane's attitude, and how a propeller produces
thrust.
- Demonstrate how the control surfaces of an airplane are used for takeoff, straight
climb, level turn, climbing turn, descending turn, straight descent, and landing.
- Explain the following: the recreational pilot and the private pilot certificates; the
instrument rating.
- Find out what job opportunities there are in aviation. Describe the qualifications and
working conditions of one job in which you are interested. Tell what if offers for reaching
your goal in life.
- Do TWO of the following:
- Take a flight in an aircraft. Record the date, place, type of aircraft, duration of flight,
and report your impressions of the flight.
- Visit an airport. After the visit, report on how the facilities are used, how runways are
numbered, and how runways are determined to be "active".
- Visit a Federal Aviation Administration facility - a control tower, terminal radar control
facility, air route traffic control center, flight service station, or Flight Standards
District Office. (Phone directory listings are under U.S. Government Offices, Transportation
Department, Federal Aviation Administration. Call in advance.) Report on the operation and
your impressions of the facility.
- Visit an avaiation museum or attend an air show. Report on your impression of the museum
or show.
- Explain the purposes of the various instruments found in a typical single-engine aircraft:
attitude indicator, heading indicator, altimeter, airspeed indicator, turn and bank indicator,
vertical speed indicator, compass, navigation (GPS and VOR) and communication radios,
tachometer, oil pressure gauge, and oil temperature gauge.
- Visit an aircraft maintenance shop. Interview a technician and report on his/her ideas about
aircraft maintenance.
- Create an original poster of an aircreaft instrument panel. Include and identify the instruments
and radios discussed in requirement 2e.
- Do TWO of the following:
- Interview a professional or military pilot. Report on what you learned.
- Interview a flight attendant. Report on what you learned.
- Interview a certified flight instructor. Report on what you learned.
- Under supervision, perform a preflight inspection of a light plane.
- Obtain and learn how to read an aeronautical chart. Measure a true course on the chart. Correct
it for magnetic variation, compass deviation, and wind drift. Arrive at a compass heading.
- Using one of many flight simulator software packages availabile for computers, "fly" the course
and heading you established in requirement 3e or another course you have plotted.
- On a map mark a route for an imaginary airline trip to at least three foreign countries. Start
Start from the commercial airport nearest your home. From timetables (obtained from agents or
online from a computer), decide from when you will get to and leave from all connecting points.
- Build and fly a fuel-driven model airplane. Describe safety rules for building and flying model
airplanes. Tell safety rules for use of glue, dope, paint, and plastics.
- Assemble a poster (or album) of original photographs taken while accomplishing the requirements.
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