# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/assessments/): Two gates, one written judgement, and the check ride that is worth half the course.
- [Abnormals — a written judgement](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/assessments/abnormals-judgement/): The one piece of written work in the course, and it is an argument for a single number that only you can set
- [Check ride](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/assessments/check-ride/): The final sortie, and half the course's marks, resting on one question about the state of the aircraft afterwards
- [Egress and systems examination](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/assessments/egress-and-systems/): The first gate — whether you can leave the aircraft, and whether you know what the aircraft is doing while you are in it
- [Simulator progression check](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/assessments/simulator-progression-check/): The gate before the aircraft — you do not fly in week 10 without this signature, and there is no version of the course where that bends
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/): Six lectures, on the six weeks that have an argument to make.
- [What this course is for](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/week-01/): The opening lecture — what we are and are not teaching, and why the first practical period of the course is about leaving the aircraft
- [Buying agility with stability](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/week-02/): How an aircraft came to be built deliberately unstable, what that bought, and what it cost the person flying it
- [Who is in command](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/week-03/): Protection, authority, and what it means to fly an aircraft that can decline your instructions
- [Energy as the unit of account](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/week-04/): Specific energy, the exchange rate between height and speed, and why the aircraft charges you for every transaction
- [Deciding in advance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/week-09/): Commitment, gates, and how a decision that is usually fine becomes the one that eventually is not
- [When protection becomes the problem](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/lectures/week-11/): The deep stall, the switch that gives your authority back, and the altitude below which no recovery fits
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/people/): Who teaches this, who runs the gate, and who owns the aircraft.
- [Ida Bergström](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/people/ida-bergstrom/): Crew chief. She owns the aircraft, releases it to you for a sortie, and inspects what you hand back.
- [Tomas Réti](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/people/tomas-reti/): Simulator instructor. He will let you crash, repeatedly, in the only room where crashing teaches you something.
- [Wren Oyelaran](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/people/wren-oyelaran/): Course convenor, former test pilot, and the person who decides whether you are ready to take the aircraft up alone.
- [Policies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/policies/): Currency, crew rest, medical grounding, weather minima and the academic rules — the conditions under which this course will and will not fly you.
- [Egress](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/01-egress/): The first period of the course teaches you to leave the aircraft, because that is the skill with the shortest deadline
- [Unstable by design](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/02-unstable-by-design/): Why this aircraft cannot fly without the computer that flies it, and why that was the point
- [Control authority](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/03-control-authority/): The limits the flight control system enforces, what it will refuse to let you do, and who is actually in command
- [Energy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/04-energy/): Altitude and airspeed are one quantity in two denominations, and every manoeuvre is a transaction in it
- [Takeoff, and the point of commitment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/05-takeoff/): The first simulator period, built around the speed after which stopping is no longer one of your options
- [The sidestick that barely moves](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/06-the-sidestick/): Flying by pressure rather than displacement, and learning to stop arguing with a system that responds faster than you do
- [The circuit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/07-the-circuit/): A rectangle flown at a fixed angle of attack, and why the airspeed indicator is the wrong instrument to fly an approach on
- [Landing and the aerobrake](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/08-landing/): The last simulator period, ending in the progression check that decides whether you fly in week 10
- [The go-around gate](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/09-the-go-around-gate/): Deciding to abandon an approach before you are on it, because the moment you need the decision is the worst moment to make it
- [First flight, solo](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/10-first-solo/): Your first flight in the aircraft, which is also your first flight alone in it, because this type has no second seat to put anyone in
- [Abnormals](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/11-abnormals/): Deep stall, manual pitch override, and the altitude below which the correct action is to leave the aircraft
- [Check ride](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/sessions/12-check-ride/): The final sortie, flown to published tolerance, assessed on one question — whether the aircraft can fly again tomorrow
- [Standards](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BlendSpitfire/standards/): The published numbers — circuit profile, approach references, tolerances, limits and minima. Everything you are held to is on this page.