Weyrling Training Timeline

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Weyrling Training Schedule
Months 1&2

• Feeding and Care of young Dragonets.
(bathing will be supervised for 1st month
• The dragon-rider bond, how to deal with Telepathy
• First Aid for Humans and Dragons
• Introduction to Wing structure and Wing duties.
• Sorted into Wings based on personality and background (the Weyrlingmaster may change around who is in what wing till the end of training)

Months 3&4
• Making the first set of Weyrling rank cords
• Basic Geography
• Basic Weather Patterns
• Weyr Ettiquette and behavior
• Gold riders – Weyr Management lessons
• Basic Ground drills

Months 5&6
• Physical training for both rider and dragon
• Ground drills continue
• Basic astronomy
• Basic Wing formations
• Bronze riders and those that show leadership
skills will be taken aside for added training
• Chores

Months 7& 8
• Dragon Healing and Anatomy
• Firestone- the basics & Beginner drills
• Care and Use of Flamethrowers (Golds only)
• landscape recognition
• Basics of Between
• Physical training cont..
• Chores

Months 9& 10
• Flight harness care, use, and construction
• Advanced Ground drills
• Preflight Training
• Advanced weather patterns
• Physical training cont..
• Chores

Months 11&12
• Advanced Terrain Recognition
• Ground Drills Cont.
• Basics of Thread Charts
• First Flights
• Physical training cont..
• Chores

Months 13&14
• Chewing Firestone & Flaming
• Learning to fight (or spar as some might call it)
• Applied Wing formations
• Ground drills cont...
• Physical training cont..
• Chores

Months 15&16
• First Trips Between
• Applied Wing formations
• Flight formation patterns
• Ground drill concepts transferred to aerial medium.
• Physical training cont..
• Chores

Months 17&18
• Sex Ed. & Mating Flights
• Fighting drills and training
• Transport Duties Assigned
• Aerial Drills
• Advanced Thread Fall patterns
• Physical training cont..
• Chores

Months 19&20
• Terrain recognition drills combined with jumps between
• Aerial drills cont...
• Physical training cont..
• Transport Duties Cont...
• Mock wing Drills
• Chores

Months 21 & 22
• Shadowing different riders (ex.Sweeprider)
• Mock wing Drills
• Physical training cont..
• Transport Duties Cont...
• Chores

Months 23& 24
• Interviews with the Weyrleaders & Wingleaders
• Final testing
• Graduation
• New Rank Badges and Cords
• Shoulder Tapping by Wingleaders
• New Weyr Assignments
• Gold riders move up to Jr. Weyrwomen
• Sparring cont...
• Physical training
• Chores