EXPERIENCE AVIATION is your opportunity to introduce the kids in your world to aviation in a BIG WAY! We want to excite the next generation about aviation. Not just to show them the joys of being a pilot and insuring that general aviation has a future... but also because the elements of aviation can be related to nearly every discipline of study!

What is EXPERIENCE AVIATION? You might see some kids building a hovercraft to take home. Someone might be attempting coverage for crop dusting a field, or learning how to make sense of a navigation chart. Someone else might be learning about float plane docking on the simulator. We have activities for all ages from preschool to seasoned pilots. NEW: Complete Saturday's schedule and follow Heart's on Wing's Flight Plan and you will be qualified for the Scouts Aviation Badge! Contact Hearts on Wings for more information. We’ll have short talks from pilots covering topics such as airline scheduling, crop dusting and seaplanes flying. Aviation High School students will show what they are learning in their classes. We’ll also have aviation projects to explore. I’m sure you’ll find something you want to try out. Olympic Flight Museum is bringing the T-28 fuselage so you can climb in and check out the cockpit. We’ll have paper airplanes being built and tested for the daily contests, not just distance but spot landings too. The computer flight simulators will have some programmed flights. Hearts on Wings uses Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 to custom-design and program flights. The computer is programmed to check things like your heading, speed and altitude. If you stray from the glide path, the onscreen message displays tips for how you might alter your course. When you reach the desired goal, the flight stops and the onscreen message displays how well you performed the task. We work with a flight instructor and a computer programmer to create these kinds of customization. We often hear kids say this flying is the best part of what we offer. Some flights are networked with about eight aircraft in the airspace, flying side by side. Hearts On Wings is an education-oriented organization. Kids can take their verbal and cognitive skills from their academic experiences and apply them to a real world environment. They discover learning is fun! Bring the whole family and Experience Aviation all weekend!

HOURS: Saturday 9 - 5:30 pm Sunday 10 - 4 pm LOCATION: SOUTHEAST END SHOWPLEX SCHEDULE: Schedules shown below include guest appearances and key challanges including papercraft air races. Subject to change without notice. Saturday Sunday ONGOING ACTIVITIES: SIM CHALLANGES FLYING EXPERIMENTS NAVIGATION AVIATION CRAFTS T-28 COCKPIT TO SIT IN (OLYMPIC FLIGHT MUSEUM) GAMES FLYING CHALLANGES CONTESTS RESOURCES FOR FUTURE AVIATORS GREAT PRIZES! AND MUCH MUCH MORE! EXPERIENCE AVIATION is presented by the Washington Aviation Association and Hearts on Wings in partnership with Microsoft Flight Simulator, the Aviation High School, Museum of Flight, FAA, AOPA and many others! Prizes? All participants in Experience Aviation are winners, but we also want to recognize extraordinary effort with lots of exciting prizes donated by our partners and exhibitors. There will be surprises so you need to check us out.