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2010 FAA Sponsored ACE Camp!

Aviation Career Education at the BSC Aviation Training Center

Our second year!

Welcome to the FAA sponsored ACE camp which takes place at the Bridgewater State College Aviation Training Center. Our flight training facility is located at the New Bedford Regional Airport in the historic city of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Save the Date!

This years ACE Camp will take place from July 5 - 9th, 2010

For more information and please contact the BSC Office of External Affairs

508.531.6189 or http://www.bridgew.edu/externalAffairs/ACECamp2010.cfm

Please check in at a later date for the application process - See the schedule below for the weeks activities

Go to the FAA website http://www.faa.gov/education/student_resources/ace_camps/ for additional information.

Read about last years ACE Camp!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9	Welcome, Orientation,	Ground School: Instruments, engine gauges, radio procedures	Ground school. Introduction to cross country planning	Ground School: Cross country planning	Tour of New Bedford Maintenance Facility
10	Aircraft walk around, introduction to aircraft systems	Tour of New Bedford Airfield	Ground School continued	Ground School continued	Tour of New Bedford maintenance facility continued
11	Tour of New Bedford Tower	Ground School: Taxi, Takeoff, exiting the pattern, turns, entering the pattern, landing	Travel to Bridgewater State College	Cross country flight to Plymouth for lunch	Trip to Aviation Museum in North Kingstown, Rhode Island
12	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1	Introductory flight	Flight involving steep turns, wing stalls, and turns around a point	Computer lab flight simulator	Tour of Plymouth Airport and State Police Aviation facility	Aviation Museum continued
2	Introductory flight	Flight (cont.)	Model aircraft demonstration and flying	Fly back to New Bedford	Tour of Quansett Airport in Kingston. Rhode Island
3	Introduction to simulators	Flight (cont.)	Return to New Bedford Airport	Simulator time	Return to New Bedford Airport