FLIGHT HOUR REQUIREMENTS
This certificate requires a minimum of 40 total flight hours, including 20 hours of training and 10 hours of solo flight.
What is a Private Pilot Certificate?
This program requires these many credits for graduation?
What is 120
This Bachelor of Science degree at Lynn University is designed to prepare students for careers as professional pilots or flight instructors.
What is a Professional Pilot degree?
While the program highlights the pilot shortage and job outlook, it also cautions students that Lynn University cannot guarantee eligibility for or passing of these.
What are certification exams?
To obtain an instrument rating, a pilot must have at least this many hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, with 10 of those hours being in an airplane.
200: What is 50 hours?
The program requires how many core curriculum courses.
What is 11 courses, totaling 33 credits.
This online program is specifically designed for individuals who already possess these from the FAA.
The program mentions several FAA ratings that students must possess before entering the online program. Name two of these required ratings.
A commercial pilot applying for a single-engine rating must log at least this many total hours of flight time as a pilot.
300: What is 250 hours?
The largest portion of the program, at 54 credits, is dedicated to this area of study.
What is the Major Core?
While Lynn translates existing FAA certifications into college credit, students without prior flight experience are advised to pursue training at one of these.
What is a local flight school?
The program states that it "translates your FAA certificates and ratings into college credit." What does this process effectively save students?
What is time and money? (Specifically, time spent taking equivalent courses at Lynn, and the associated tuition costs.)
Of the 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time required for an instrument rating, this many hours must be received from an authorized instructor holding an instrument-airplane rating.
400: What is 15 hours?
This program explicitly states that it does not include these, and students are responsible for arranging and paying for them independently.
What are flight courses/flight training?
This regulation, mentioned in the program overview, outlines the requirements for solo flight in a single-engine, land class airplane.
What is Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 141?
While Lynn recommends Embry-Riddle for Florida students seeking flight training, what important detail does the program overview emphasize about this recommendation?
What is that Lynn University is not affiliated with any specific flight school? (Or similar phrasing emphasizing the lack of official partnership.)
Besides total flight time, training hours, and solo hours, a Private Pilot certificate also specifies required flight time in these specific "areas of operation," as listed in § 61.107(b)(1). (Answer must mention "areas of operation" or similar wording referencing the regulation.)
500: What are the areas of operation listed in § 61.107(b)(1)? (Accept similar phrasing that indicates understanding of the regulatory requirement.)
Why is it impossible for a student in this program to complete a minor, given that all minors require 15 credits?
What is because the program only offers 13 free elective credits, which is not enough to fulfill the 15-credit requirement for a minor?
Besides flight instruction knowledge, this program also aims to develop these types of skills relevant to the aviation industry.
What are business and management skills?
Although this program prepares students for FAA requirements, it explicitly states that online students are not eligible to receive these through Lynn University itself.
What are FAA certificates? (Or, more specifically, what is the ability to obtain FAA certificates through Lynn University?)