Definition
A fictional airport used as a setting in a scenario-based training (SBT) flight lesson in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook. It serves as a planned destination within a sample cross-country training scenario designed to expose the student to realistic decision-making situations.
Plain English
A made-up airport name used in a sample lesson plan to make a training flight feel realistic. It is not a real place — it is a teaching example.
Context Anchor
Seen in a scenario-based training exercise when the lesson describes where a flight begins, ends, or takes place.
Why Pilots Care
Recognising that 'College Airport' is a teaching example, not a real airport, prevents confusion when reading the sample SBT lesson and helps the reader focus on the instructional method being demonstrated.
Intuition Check
Do not assume “College Airport” means an airport for colleges or student pilots. Here it is being used as the name of a specific airport in the scenario.
Example Sentence 1
In the sample lesson, the instructor plans a cross-country flight from the home field to College Airport so the student can practice diversion decisions along the way.
Example Sentence 2
After reviewing the scenario at College Airport, the student decided to delay departure because of the reported gusty crosswind.