An open aviation-education program — an always-current, offline-capable library of FAA training, regulatory, and safety knowledge, wired into private AI and taught as real ground school.
Why this lab exists
FAA handbooks get new editions, Advisory Circulars are issued and cancelled, and the regs shift under everyone’s feet. Pilots and instructors end up chasing PDFs across a dozen government sites. The Aviation Training Lab builds one durable, auto-refreshed corpus of that knowledge — available offline, searchable by a private AI, and shaped into teachable courses. Same discipline the other Pelican labs use: survey → ingest → expose → teach.
The Corpus
Free FAA and federal sources, ingested once and kept fresh on a schedule so editions never go stale — then exposed to private AI for plain-language Q&A that works with zero internet.
PHAK (FAA-H-8083-25), Airplane Flying Handbook, Instrument Flying & Procedures, AIM, and the Airman Certification Standards for Private, Instrument & Commercial.
FAR / eCFR parts 61, 91, 107 and 135 — pulled from the authoritative eCFR source and refreshed as amendments publish.
The full current set of FAA Advisory Circulars, aggregated from the DRS Dynamic Regulatory System into one indexed, searchable area.
NTSB accident reports & safety recommendations and NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) — the lessons-learned layer.
Roadmap
Load the FAA handbooks, ACS, and regs into an offline Kiwix library on a scheduled refresh.
All current Advisory Circulars plus NTSB and NASA ASRS into one auto-refreshed, indexed store.
Surface the whole corpus as live tools so the lab’s AI can answer aviation questions with cited sources — fully offline.
Turn the curriculum into a structured course delivered through the Pelican LMS.
Scope note: this lab is pilot knowledge and training content. It is distinct from the Pelican UAV Lab (drone hardware & operations) and from Monadnock Aviation, the FBO business. It does not provide airman certificate lookups.