wolly

Why are you accusing me?

PotatoChip

Often people create usernames and troll this site. This looks like a duck. Could you elaborate about yourself? Are in college? Live in the US? You seem to speak English as a second language. Nearly everything about flying airplanes is physics when it comes to the hard skills, and the technical/mechanical understanding.
You’re not busting out long equations in flight, but a general understanding of physics is paramount to understanding how everything affects your aircraft.

wolly

I just graduated highschool and I know nothing about the use of physics in the air field.Why do you have to judge me?No,I don't live in the US and unfortunately where I live I learned physics with no lab.Our physics lab was minimum in quantity so we learned so little about what real world means.I can understand physics from highschool at a low level but I don't know to make a connection with the lessons in real life.In math it is different.I graduated in an electronics specialty and I only know some chapters from electricity in the DC but not AC.I asked these questions because I wanted to know if you need to be decent at physics if you want to know how you fly with a plane.I mean I know to measure current and voltage but I have no idea how a capacitor or a coil works in a circuit.Our physics lab was more theory than practice and the devices and equipment were unfunctional.

PotatoChip

No, you don’t need to be decent at physics, but if you are you’ll have a leg up. Every movement of the flight controls could be a lecture in physics. In basic beginning flight you’ll learn some basic Newtonian physics (third law), Bernoulli’s principle, basic aerodynamics, pressures, fulcrums, weight and balance (moments, arms, etc) and how they all affect flight. You’ll have to accurately explain how lift works, which while not that difficult, is all physics. As you progress through your training you’ll add more to your education.
Also, while “sightseeing” in this job is awesome and one of the best perks, it’s obviously a LOT more than that and it takes a very serious commitment to get the professional airline level.

rickair7777

You don't need physics "skills". You need math skills, high school level is fine with some engineering principles, no calculus.

In order to obtain the required pilot certificates, you will need to understand some physics concepts, which will be explained during pilot training.

Airline Captains get the job by seniority, and completing some training. Most people who are hired by airlines have no trouble completing the training when their seniority is high enough.

You use a little mechanics, and a little electrical theory. You don't need to know how to design the plane, just operate it.

If you passed HS algebra and trig, and a HS science or physics class you will be fine. You might be able to get by with less.

*** Again I'm talking about the US... overseas they will want you to build the airplane (but you don't have to fly it very well).

JohnBurke

My immediate impression of you was that you were a troll, someone who opened an account for no other reason than to provoke people. However, I see that here you've explained yourself. So far as judgement, every sentence you write appears crafted for no other purpose than to bait posters. You're from another country, just graduated high school, struggle, and yet you want an essay.

Uh, huh. Right.

You don't live in the US, but you call it a "high school?" Interesting. I'd have been more believing had you said "secondary school." High school. Interesting.

I went to high school and took physics with no lab, too, because one isn't necessary. We didn't have computers, either; those weren't in the picture. we used chalk boards. We used high tech devices like dropping an object to the floor, drawing a line, and demonstrated waves with a long rope held by two people in a hallway. Pendulums...string with a weight. And a chalkboard. But no lab.

So what?

The only math needed to fly airplanes is addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

The only physics are rate, time, and distance. If I'm moving at 100 mph and I fly for an hour, I travelled 100 miles. That's it.

Lessons in real life? Ride a bicycle up a hill, you slow down. Point the airplane up and climb, you slow down. Ride a bike downhill, you speed up. So does the airplane. Put your hand out a car window and turn if palm into the wind, the wind pushes your hand back. That's drag. Turn it palm down, drag goes away. turn it palm slightly into the wind, your hand is held up by the wind, that's lift. There's real life. There's most of what you need to know about flying. Not that complicated.

Hang on a second. You went to "high school" in another country, and graduated with a "speciality?" Your "specialty" is electronics, you managed to graduate, and you can't understand AC electricity? How could such a ridiculous thing be possible, and how could you say that and expect anyone to believe you're not a troll, and why would anyone be stupid enough to believe you.

Of course, you're saying this intentionally, because you're trolling, and there are enough bored idiots here to bite and play along. Congratulations.

You "graduated" from a foreign "high school" with a "specialty" in electronics, and you don't know anything about induction, left hand rule, alternating current, the most basic function of electricity (a circuit), or what a capacitor does? These are things any boy scout who has done an electricity merit badge knows, and that can be done in a day or a weekend. You're a "graduate" who specialized in these things and don't know them? Not buying it at all.

There's your essay. Print it and put it on the wall.



Understanding electrical theory, by the way, has little to do with flying aircraft. It's useful for mechanics. Pilots simply know that flipping switch A does something, and if something doesn't happen, then turn to manual B. Done.