Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Future Pilots

Today, our class went on an excursion and it was AWESOME! We visited the Flight Experience Centre in Perth, which is a place people can go to to use a flight simulator. It looked exactly like the cockpit of a Boeing 737, with lots of lights, buttons and dials! We all got a chance to pilot the plane, guided by a real life pilot, Captain Chris. Some of us flew over London and saw the Eye and Big Ben and the rest of us flew over New York and saw the Statue of Liberty. It was great fun! While each group waited for our turn in the cockpit, Captain Cait showed us some videos about how planes fly and about all the things airline staff need to do after a plane lands to make it ready to take off again. Tomorrow, we'll be writing about our day, so we'll add more information then. For now, check out this Animoto and other pictures!


A big thankyou to Nikolas' mum, who came along to help and to Mr F, our principal, who drove the bus!




Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

5 comments:

  1. wow what a FANTASTIC day I had with you all. What an excperience it was to be able to fly over London with some of you even though I needed a sick bag for some of your flying. Thankyou for your Beautiful cards you gave me they are worth more than $1 million it was a pleasure to be able to share this special day with you all. Thanks Mrs F

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    1. Thank you Mr F for driving the bus and giving us a helping hand
      From Angela
      :)

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  2. Hi Smarties it is Angela It was fun driving the plane I want to go there agian

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  3. WOW! It sounds as though you had a great experience and a lot of fun. Weren't you all so very lucky.

    Fantastic Fours

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  4. Hello i am from a different school i love your blog and i will be voting for it in the edublogs voting competition thing!
    Our class went on an excursion to the Raff base, we got to sit in one of the seats but it was a bit scary because there were a million little buttons and gadgets but overall the experience was great

    Hannah

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