Six lectures, on the six weeks that have an argument to make.
Six of the twelve weeks carry a lecture. The simulator weeks and the flying weeks do not — there’s nothing to lecture on once the work has moved to the box or the aircraft.
The lecture makes the argument and sets the reading; the period applies it. Week 11 is written as the answer to the question week 3 leaves open, and the week 1 deck is the one you can read without being in the room.
What this course is for
The opening lecture — what we are and are not teaching, and why the first practical period of the course is about leaving the aircraft
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Buying agility with stability
How an aircraft came to be built deliberately unstable, what that bought, and what it cost the person flying it
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Who is in command
Protection, authority, and what it means to fly an aircraft that can decline your instructions
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Energy as the unit of account
Specific energy, the exchange rate between height and speed, and why the aircraft charges you for every transaction
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Deciding in advance
Commitment, gates, and how a decision that is usually fine becomes the one that eventually is not
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
When protection becomes the problem
The deep stall, the switch that gives your authority back, and the altitude below which no recovery fits
Week 11 · 3 May 2027