Simulated flight competitions offer aviation students an excellent opportunity to practice cross-country flying skills in a controlled environment. However, scoring these competitions fairly and accurately can be challenging. Traditional methods typically focus on raw metrics, such as time en route or fuel consumption, but these metrics alone do not provide a balanced assessment of pilot performance. This post outlines a scoring method that uses normalization to combine key p

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Students from Upstate High Schools visit the Flight Simulation Lab at Greenville Technical Charter High School.

Successful completion of the mission requires math and geometrical problem solving, using principles of relative motion and dead reckoning.