The SAE Aero Design® competition is intended to provide undergraduate and graduate engineering students with a real-life engineering exercise. The competition has been designed to provide exposure to the kinds of situations that engineers face in the real work environment. (Source: www.sae.org) The Goal is to build an airplane fulfilling the competition’s top-level requirements (e.g. take-off distance; engine power; length, height and wing span of the aircraft) and being able to lift as much payload as possible The competition’s focus is not only on engineering tasks but also on interpersonal communication skills. Both written and oral communication skills are vital in the engineering workplace. To underline this requirement, a high percentage of a team's score is devoted to the design report and the oral presentation required in the competition. The MAP (Munich Aviation Projects) team was founded in 2008. In fact, they were the first group of students from the Munich University of Applied Sciences to participate at the SAE Aero Design® challenge. Since then the team has grown bigger and great effort was put in enhancing the 2009 airplane.