Flight Mechanics Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

Fundamentals of Flight mechanics

612 ratings at Coursera

Learn how the laws of physics govern airplanes, covering lift, drag, anemobarometry, trajectory, and propulsive balance and energy.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Flight mechanics - The basis

502 ratings at Coursera

Learn the basics of flight mechanics: name aircraft parts and geometry, apply Newton's second law and total height, and compute lift, thrust and load factor.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Flight mechanics - Lift and trajectory

77 ratings at Coursera

Learn how angle of attack and speed govern lift, why stall, Mach number and flutter bound the flight envelope, and how to control trajectory using load factor.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Flight Mechanics - Anemobarometry

76 ratings at Coursera

Understand what a pilot's speed and altitude indications really mean: standard versus actual atmosphere, calibrated, true and equivalent airspeeds, and the Zp–Mach–Vc diagram.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Flight mechanics - Propulsive balance and energy

64 ratings at Coursera

Model drag and thrust to evaluate an aircraft's propulsive balance: derive the drag polar, flight regimes, best climb speed, propulsion ceiling, and cruise range versus weight.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

IIT Kanpur;  NPTEL

Aircraft Stability and Control

This course is designed to understand stability and control aspects of an airplane. This course will also help in creating a background to design an airplane from stability and control aspects.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

The uAvionix AV-30 Electronic Flight Instrument can be installed by any qualified maintenance facility with the proper training. This video covers detailed installation information for the AV-30, incl

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Brings a mechanic through an Annual/200 HR inspection of the Wipline 8750 float installed on the Cessna 208 or 208B. Follows the Wipline 8750 service manual introducing mechanic to the background of t

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

This course serves as initial and refresher training on the operation and effect of roll, pitch and yaw control movements of an aircraft and the flight control surfaces required to do that. This inclu

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Pilots need easy to understand weather and flight information specific to their needs with greater use of graphics and filtering. Learn how Leidos Flight Service is delivering exactly that through the

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Experience the chilling reality of an ill-fated VFR flight from Chicago to Raleigh, North Carolina. Cross-Country Crisis examines the pilot's actions as weather deteriorates and fuel becomes critical

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Air Safety Institute's Accident Case Study: Everyone's Problem takes a look at a flight training accident in Texas that killed a flight instructor and two students on November 15, 2007. The video

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

On January 13, 2013, a Piper Arrow collided with trees during an emergency approach to Delaware's Dover Air Force Base. Come along as we re-create the pilot's final flight, and seek to understand the

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

On November 26, 2011, a Cirrus SR-20 plunged to the ground in suburban Chicago, killing its four occupants. What went wrong? Using audio of the pilot's discussions with ATC and factual information fro

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions is a leading cause of fatal GA accidents. This minicourse re-creates an actual VFR-into-IMC accident and examines the lessons we can learn from it

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate