The National Flight Academy has 1-day, 3-day, and ...

The National Flight Academy has 1-day, 3-day, and 6-day camps throughout the summer for kids up to 17 years old. The list of things to bring is not actually accurate, here is what I reccomend:
Bring a towel or two. For the 6-day camp you receive 2 small towels and 6 washcloths.

Bring shower necessities and a shower bag. They call shower time hygiene and it is a RACE to the showers. There is limited shower area and lines reach. I reccomend having the shower bag pre packed with clothes for the night so when they let you get it, you will be ready and the first in the showers.

Flip flops or slide ons are required for showers. I reccomend whatever is easiest to get on, it is 100% a race.

The rooms are constantly at 66 degrees Fahrenheit because the computers must be kept cool. Bring sweaters and jackets, a lot of kids wore jackets over the short sleeved shirts they brought because they didn t think it d be this cool. Highly reccomend long sleeves and jeans or pants. Had no real need for shorts, wore them once.

You will receive a camp shirt. You will wear that two or three times and at Graduation. They make you change out of it when you come back from wherever you went in it (you wear it to leave camp) immediately. Because it was so cool I rotated two sweaters and one short sleeve shirt. I reccomend packing 4 shirts and two or three jeans. Friday of the 6-day camp is camp shirt only. If you wear jeans Sunday you can rotate them with the others, nobody really notices.

Bring comfortable shoes. You wear them from 7am to 10pm. There is no time to take them off. Some kids brought multiple pairs and rotated, it s completely up to you how much you want to bring. Socks are required with shoes.

On the list it suggests dressy clothes (I.e. blouses, dresses) there is absolutely no need for those. You wear what s most comfortable during the week and there s no formal events.

Bring a hair dryer at your own discretion, I never used mine. Never saw anyone use one either.

Makeup can be worn but you have 30 minutes from 6:30 am to 7 am to get ready unless you wake up early. The earliest you can wake up is 6 am to get ready. Lights out is 10:30 pm.

Bring 6 pencils, you are given a pencil but they get LOST. I kept mine til the last day then lost it, but you never know. Pencils are needed every day, but you won t need paper. They will give you a booklet to write in.

There are vending machines but sometimes they break. I asked a RA to walk me to the boys dorm to use their machine(you can do vice versa), or you can ask to go to the upstairs machines. I reccomend bringing your own snacks instead of fighting the line.

These rules apply to both genders.

Waking up at 6:30 am can be hard especially if you re from out of town, I had a hour time difference, an hour behind. You are allotted 8 hours of sleep if you re asleep by 10:30 pm. That rarely happens in a room of 3+(depends on how many enrolled). You will barely sleep this week.

I guarantee you this week will go by faster if you don t talk during the briefings. They don t have a lot to say and if you listen you ll get out faster. I m not saying you ll eat faster but you can get to flight simulation faster. This camp has A LOT of flight simulator time, and you can choose your co pilot. You plan out flight plans (how far, where to, how fast, how much fuel required) and execute them. You also get to play Radar (voice over headset sending directions or instructions if you re lost or don t know what is next). They teach you many things. What you don t get is downtime. Don t bring the recommended exercise clothing, you will have no time to use it. Bringing anything to do is unnecessary because you ll talk to your roommates or sleep in free time. The little free time you get, there is a air hockey table and ping pong and a loung. Little known game systems can be played as well (they re not Xbox or ps or wii).

The vegetarian food options were good but sometimes limited. You must always ask for plate 03. For food I usually had what everyone else had (minus meat).