Garmin G1000 analysis complete

Janice Wood | Avionics/Instruments, General Aviation News | February 12, 2012

CAPACG and AvConnect have completed the first-ever detailed analysis of Garmin G1000 flight data for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). The study is associated with an FAA-funded research project — the General Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing Research Project — through the Center for General Aviation Research. The ultimate goal is to improve the safety and efficiencies of general aviation aircraft operating in the National Airspace System.

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New chair of aerospace engineering Named at Embry-Riddle

Janice Wood | Airports | January 16, 2012

As Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University prepares to offer its first Ph.D. program in Aerospace Engineering, the school has appointed Anastasios (Tasos) Lyrintzis as professor and chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Daytona Beach campus, starting spring semester 2012.

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Embry-Riddle joins research consortium

Ben Sclair | General Aviation News | October 26, 2011

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has joined Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a consortium of 99 Ph.D.-granting research institutions that advance science and education by partnering with national laboratories, government agencies, and private industry.

In the 2009-2010 fiscal year, 139 Embry-Riddle faculty members were engaged in 180 sponsored projects, with the three research areas of NextGen, Green Engineering, and Unmanned and Autonomous Systems considered the most significant.

Sign ups begin for summer academy

Janice Wood | Products | April 14, 2009

Sign ups have begun for the Summer Academy operated by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at its Daytona Beach campus.

The Summer Academy offers several camps, some of which may be taken for college credit, including Aerospace I, Aerospace II, Aviation Career Exploration, Aviation Discovery for Women, Flight Exploration, Aviation Voyage, Generations, and SunFlight. The Summer Academy runs from June 8 to Aug. 9, with individual camps ranging in length from five days to 49 days. Application is required a month before the start date of each camp.

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Extreme training at 30,000 feet

Janice Wood | General Aviation News | March 31, 2009

Caroline Brozovich’s fingers and lips have turned blue-grey, her movements are sluggish, and her eyes half-shut, as though she’s peering through a fog. The oxygen around her is now as thin as the air at 30,000 feet, the cruising altitude for jet aircraft. If Brozovich were piloting an airliner, she and her passengers would be minutes away from unconsciousness – and death.

But Brozovich is a flight student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and her instructor has just handed her an oxygen mask.

They are inside the university’s new High Altitude Laboratory, a high-tech facility for teaching aspiring pilots how to recognize the symptoms of oxygen loss at high altitudes. According to university officials, Embry-Riddle is the first university in the United States to acquire the lab for high-altitude hypoxia awareness training. The lab can accommodate 8-10 people per training session and will include a flight training device at a later date.

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Flight training device using virtual air traffic voice commands to debut

Janice Wood | Products | March 12, 2009

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Frasca International will unveil the first integrated flight training device (FTD) with virtual air traffic control commands designed to give student pilots more realistic training.

Designed specifically for general aviation pilot training, the product called SAFTE (Synthetic Automated Flight Training Environment) with Virtual Air Traffic (VAT) will make its debut at Embry-Riddle’s National Training Aircraft Symposium, March 16-19 on the Daytona Beach campus.

SAFTE/VAT incorporates simulated flight plans with voice recognition technology to deliver a real world flight experience, allowing the student pilot to “fly” in a particular situation or air space, and receive specific commands from the virtual air traffic controller. The technology enables the flight instructor to focus on teaching rather than role-playing and better trains the student through repetitive, learned behaviors in scenario-based situations, according to ERAU officials.

For more information: EmbryRiddle.edu or Frasca.com.

Mentoring program for female engineering students debuts

Janice Wood | General Aviation News | March 4, 2009

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has begun a peer mentoring program to help young women aspiring to become engineers transition from high school through the first year of college.

The program, called FIRST (Female Initiatives: Reaching Success Together), is funded by a grant from Boeing. It provides tutoring in math and physics, special activities, and mentoring to better ensure students’ success.

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National Training Aircraft Symposium slated

Janice Wood | General Aviation News | March 2, 2009

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will convene the 2009 National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS 2009) March 16-19 on its Daytona Beach campus.

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New book chronicles Embry-Riddle’s role in WWII flight training

Janice Wood | Books, Products | February 25, 2009

In a new book, “Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training During WWII,” Dr. Stephen Craft tells the story of the Embry-Riddle Co., a small Miami-based operation established in 1939 by pilot and businessman John Paul Riddle that developed into one of the nation’s largest aviation training centers for the U.S. military, its allies, and civilians.

In just four years the company, which later evolved into Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, trained 26,000 pilots, flight instructors, mechanics, and aircraft factory workers at several airfields and a seaplane base in South Florida and at an airfield in Union City, Tenn.

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Embry-Riddle launches new program

Janice Wood | General Aviation News, Products | January 29, 2009

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide has launched a new program designed to stimulate collaborative innovation across the aviation and aerospace industry.

Called the i2i Program, the program offers a different way for firms to share innovative solutions to common problems in the industry.

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