After training, your squadron will receive a "real world" intelligence briefing and plan out the ultimate "Flight Mission" discussing the mission objective, setting up the scenario and strategy, rehearsing last minute tactics and maneuvers (i.e., team against team, one-team flying together, etc.) while determining the best use of personnel and equipment.

Aviation Challenge Mission

Teammates execute their planned mission. It is at this point that communication, planning, decision-making, and teamwork skills culminate.

Crew Positions/Responsibilities

Flight Leader (can be the Pilot or WSO)

Pilot's Responsibilities

WSO's Responsibilities

Top Gun Competition

As the final event, the Top Gun Competition is a fast-paced, head-to-head competition designed to eliminate your competitors and crown the best aviator. Now's the time to show your stuff and prove your skill.

Centrifuge

Each member will experience what it's like to pull G's in a jet fighter. The "Fuge" is a two-seat cockpit that duplicates high-performance jets at a 3G turn.

AREA 51 (Leadership Reaction Course)

A land-based leadership reaction course that encompasses six different events that require group communications, leadership, and teamwork. Each event is "headed" by a different person from each group and then timed. Following the completion of the event, the group receives an after-action review where we discuss the "sustains" and "improves" for the exercise. The events require a small amount of physical strength, and several of the events (three to be exact) require the trainees to be off the ground (no more than a height of 40 inches) for which they are continuously spotted.

Land Survival

During this block of instruction and practical exercise, you will learn basic skills necessary to survive in all climactic conditions and environments. You will also make an expedient shelter out of provided and found materials, as well as learn how to construct and start a signal fire, gather food, and find water.

Water Survival

Two thirds of the earth's surface is covered by water. For this reason water survival is critically important. This activity will instruct basic water survival techniques, as well as provide some challenging once-in-a-lifetime activities. Experience a simulated helicopter crash in the water, and ride the zip line that simulates the last 50 feet of a parachute descent to the sea. It's a rush in more ways than one.

Escape and Evasion

SURVIVAL is the name of the game! Military pilots must be ready to survive in combat situations. They have to survive not only the hazards of nature, but also a hostile enemy. A positive "can-do" attitude is the most important aspect of survival, but training in some techniques is essential. At Aviation Challenge, we teach you some basics, then you get to apply them in the Escape and Evasion (E&E) exercise--your team must escape a hostile enemy under cover of darkness!

IMAX Movie

Get an astronaut's view of the earth as you watch a spectacular IMAX® presentation on our 67-foot domed screen in the Spacedome IMAX Theater. This screen fills your entire field of vision with an awe-inspiring, "you are there," experience. Please call for current features.

Facility Tour and Museum Attractions

Visit the greatest collection of rockets and space memorabilia anywhere. Sit inside an Apollo Command Module; check out the Blackbird, the sleek U.S. Air Force Spy plane that flew coast to coast in less than 68 minutes. Explore Huntsville's role in the development of the United States' missile and space programs in "Rocket City Legacy." View a vast collection of high-tech weaponry. From small unmanned vehicles that lock onto targets with lasers to futuristic soldiers with particle beam guns. No this is not a scene from Star Wars, it's the United States Army of the 21st century and beyond.

Test your strength, agility and endurance on the Olympus Mons Climbing Wall, a 25-foot high climbing wall that accommodates up to 12 climbers at a time.

Feel what a rocket launch feels like on our Space Shot ride, as you are pulled 140 feet straight up in 2.5 seconds, experiencing 4 G's of force in 2 - 3 seconds of weightlessness, and 1G free fall.

In Rocket Park walk under the World's only "Full Stack" shuttle and what has been called "the finest rocket collection in the world" by U.S. Senator and former astronaut, John Glenn.

Underwater Astronaut Training (Scuba)

Graduation

With full honors, we will recognize your hard-earned achievements, as individuals and as a team by awarding each crewmember with a personalized certificate, pewter wings, and team photo.