Egress and systems examination

The first gate — whether you can leave the aircraft, and whether you know what the aircraft is doing while you are in it

Due: 12 March 2027 · Weight: 15%

The brief#

Demonstrate that you can get out, and that you know what you are getting out of.

Three parts, sat across the end of week 3.

The egress component is practical and timed, in the hangar, at the aircraft. It is not a written description of the sequence. You perform it, your eyes are closed for part of it, and there is a time.

The oral covers the flight control system: what it does with your input, what its redundancy assumes, and what happens when its computers disagree. You will be asked at least one question the flight manual does not answer directly, because the manual’s wording is not the same thing as understanding what it describes.

The written paper is short and concerns the distinction from week 3: given a list of numbers from the operating limitations, say which the aircraft enforces and which it merely records, and what follows from that difference.

What you submit#

Nothing in advance. All three components are sat in the scheduled slot.

How it’s marked#

The egress component carries the most weight because it is the only part of this examination with a deadline measured in seconds. A correct sequence performed slowly is not a pass.