Diamond DA-42s, and one single-engine Super Decathlon used for upset recovery training. In addition, a twin- engine Beechcraft Baron 58 is used for high perfor- mance aircraft training and two Cessna 150s are owned for flight team competition. The aircraft are based at the Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB). ERAU is the only university in the country that owns a full-motion, Level D flight simulator, according to Michael Coman, Associate Professor of Aeronautical Science and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Aeronautical Science Department. The simulator, along with a Level 6 fixed-base, flight-training device (FTD)—both mod- eled on the Bombardier CRJ 200 regional jet and situated at the Daytona Beach campus—are used as an integral part of the restricted ATP Certification Training Program (CTP). The CTP requires a total of 22 hours, of which 12 are spent in the full-motion simulator and 10 in the FTD. “Along with the full-motion simulator, our fleet of training devices includes eight Cessna 172 Level 6 FTDs and two Diamond DA 42 Level 6 FTDs, in ad- dition to the CRJ 200 FTD,” said Coman. The university’s most recent aviation degree program, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, numbers about 250 students. As many as 300 students select the program as a minor. Said John Robbins, Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Science and Undergraduate Program Coordinator- Unmanned Aerial Systems, “The program is becoming increasingly popular because the market is growing with the potential applications of unmanned aerial systems 46 to the commercial world. Those who are looking to pi- lot these systems go through the same flight training as those in our professional pilot-focused programs.” In 1978, ERAU set its sights on the Western U.S., with the opening of a campus in Prescott, Arizona. Dr. Brent Bowen, Dean of the College of Aviation in Prescott, reported that the major difference between the Aeronautical Science degree programs at Daytona Beach and Prescott is that the Arizona location of- fers helicopter, as well as fixed-wing flight training. “Along with flight training, students take courses in ad- vanced weather, advanced aerodynamics and interna- tional navigation,” he noted. “Prescott offers the same degree programs as the Daytona Beach campus.” Prescott’s flight training fleet is based at the Ernest A. Love Field (PRC) and is currently comprised of 18 Cessna 172s, four twin-piston Diamond DA-42s, one Cessna 182, and two Cessna 150s used for the school’s competitive flight team. “The Embry-Riddle Competitive Flight Team is the current national cham- pions,” said Bowen, who explained that the competi- tion includes events related to airmanship skills. In addition to the fixed-wing aircraft, ERAU owns 14 Robinson helicopters, which includes a combination of R22 and R44 piston models and one R66 turbine. The Prescott campus also has an extensive series of training devices, including one Paradigm Shift Solutions Model DA-42 Multiengine Land Advanced Aviation Training Device, two Paradigm Shift Solutions Model C 172 Ultra Aviation Business Journal | 3rd Quarter 2016
