Daytona Beach Campus - College of Aviation

Aeronautical Science Department

Facilities

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College of Aviation

coaEmbry-Riddle's new Aviation Building uniquely combines the expertise and technology that are designed to address the most pressing challenges facing aviation today: unprecedented passenger growth, frequent flight delays, security concerns, congested airport runways, aging aircraft, and outdated computer systems.

The new building is home to the departments of Aeronautical Science, Applied Aviation Sciences, and Flight. These departments offer degree programs in Aeronautical Science (for professional pilots), Aeronautical Systems Maintenance, Aerospace Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Applied Meteorology, Aeronautics, and Safety Science.

Aeronautical Science Department

The offices of the Aeronautical Science Department are located on the second floor of the Aviation Building. The second floor houses the Aircraft Performance Laboratory contains 30 computerized replicas of the automated glass instrument panel and manual controls of a major transport aircraft that allow students to "fly" the aircraft's performance profile and interact with the instructor.

Electronic Navigation Laboratory features special PCs equipped with flight controls and Embry-Riddle-developed software that allows students to compute performance criteria and explore different flight scenarios.

Flight Techniques Laboratory is equipped for seminars supporting collaborative learning.

The Aviation Building also contains the Normobaric High-Altitude Lab, Computer-Based Training Laboratory, Flight Tutoring Laboratory,  Propulsion and Systems Laboratory, Safe Skies Laboratory, Spatial-Disorientation Training Lab, Air Traffic Control Simulation Laboratories, Air Traffic Management Research Laboratory, Weather Center and Meteorology Laboratories and several GATs.


The Spatial Disorientation Trainer



Safe Skies Lab



Until recently, hypoxia training has usually been done inside hypobaric chambers primarily at military bases. Now, thanks to CAT, there's a safer 21st-Century alternative at a fraction of the cost. Our Hypoxic Aviation Systems can achieve up to 30,000' in a tent, modular enclosure, or even a flight simulator....with few of the drawbacks of a low-pressure chamber.

CAT's latest ultra-high-altitude system, shown here in the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University configuration, is a breakthrough product for the aviation industry, allowing pilots to experience hypoxia in a relatively safe, convenient environment, at a fraction of the cost of a depressurization chamber

Contaminated Airfoil Training Aid

The Contaminated Airfoil Training Aid was created at ERAU to demonstrate a contaminated airfoil and the effect it will have on an aircraft.  Contamination will affect lift and can impede the movement of control surfaces making an aircraft potentially uncontrollable!