Frequently Used Important CAP Links

CAP Publication Library

• Indexes, Regulations, and Manuals (CAPR)
• Pamphlets (CAPP) – contains many guides
• Standards (CAPS) – contains all aircrew training and operations standards
• Forms (CAPF) – e.g. Form 5 for annual pilot evaluation, but also permission forms for cadet activities.

Aerospace Education

• CAP STEM Kit Program Description
• STEM Kits Available for Selection (List of CAP STEM Kits)
• Highlighted CAP STEM Kits (often produced by third-party manufacturers, indicated in parentheses):
  – 30 Days Lost in Space (inventr.io) – also available for purchase from manufacturer.
  – Raspberry Pi STEM Kit:
  Description
  Workbook (Jonathan Lartigue, Computing with the Raspberry Pi – An Introduction to Programming, Embedded Systems, and Digital Sensors) – available from eServices at AE Downloads and Resources (see link below)
  – Cross-Country Navigation (Gleim)
• CAP Aerospace and STEM Education Products (available at AE Downloads and Resources – CAP members only, requires login to CAP’s eServices)
• CAPP 50-1 (Aerospace Education Officer Handbook)
• CAPP 60-41 (Cadet Cyber & STEM Recognition Programs)

CAP also has a bunch of other materials in its AE Downloads and Resources folder, such as the Aerospace Education eXellence (AEX) textbooks, most of which are either very simplistic or not very good and pedagogically atrocious (individual lessons which have no connection to each other whatsoever, more intended to keep children busy semi-intellectually somehow, rather than providing an overarching learning goal, and certainly not suitable to give cadets the edge in their college applications to top universities). Thus we do not list them here. But a few of the documents listed there, like Jonathan Lartigue’s book highlighted above have real educational value.

Flight

• CAPR 70-1 (CAP Flight Management) – regulations for CAP flight operations, incl. pilot qualification requirements
• Cadet Orientation Flights:
  – CAPP 60-40 (CAP Cadet Orientation Flight Program Guide)
  – Recommended Forms to be filled out by o-flight participants (often required by the orientation pilots):
  CAPF 60-81 (Application for CAP Encampment or Special Activity)
  CAPF 60-80 (Civil Air Patrol Cadet Activity Permission Slip)
  CAPF 160 (CAP Member Health History Form)
  CAPF 163 (Permission for Provision of Minor Cadet Over-the-Counter Medication)
• Teacher Orientation Program (TOP) Flights for Aerospace Education Members (AEM, i.e. school teachers):
  – TOP Flights webpage
  – Teacher Orientation Program (TOP) Flight Guide
• CAP Aircrew and Flight Training Standards:
  – Pilot Onboarding webpage
  – CAPP 70-12 (Pilot Onboarding Pamphlet)
  – CAPS 71-1 (Aircrew Training, Airplane)
  – CAPS 71-2 (Aircrew Training Glider)
  – CAPS 71-3 (Aircrew Training Balloon)
  – CAPS 71-4 (AFAM-approved Proficiency Flight Profiles)
  – CAPS 71-5 (Corporate-approved Proficiency Flight Profiles)
  – CAPS 71-6 (Aircrew Training, Cadet Wings)
  – CAPS 72-2 (Mission Symbols) – to enter sorties into WMIRS
  – CAPS 72-5 (Aircrew Evaluation)
  – CAPS 72-6 (Aircrew Evaluation Criteria)