Objectives

After matriculation at Lewis University (regardless of major), students are required to do all their flight training at Lewis unless otherwise approved by the Director of Aviation Flight Technology. Flight training received outside the university (while a Lewis University student) will not be transferred as flight lab credit into the flight program and the student will be ineligible to receive any academic credit for that flight lab. To graduate as a flight major/associate/minor, a minimum of five flight lab credits and six credits in ground schools must be earned at Lewis University.

In order to be admitted into the Aviation Flight Technology program, applicants must have achieved a minimum high school GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale). Transfer students must have earned an overall 3.0 GPA in the transferable courses.  Lewis University students who request admission into the program must have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours at Lewis University and must have earned no less than a 3.0 GPA overall.

The by-pass exam is the method the Aviation Department uses to validate the FAA training that an incoming student has previously completed prior to matriculation into our program. Upon successful completion of the by-pass exam, the student will receive the academic credits for the appropriate Ground School and labs for the previously completed FAA Certificates. For instance, most commonly a student will enroll as a first year student and already have a FAA Pilot Certificate “in-hand.” That student will take a two hour oral exam with an Assistant Chief Pilot (when deemed ready by their Lewis flight instructor) and upon successful completion, have the Private Pilot Ground Schools (AVTR 13000 Private Pilot Ground 1 & AVTR 13100 Private Pilot Ground 2) along with the Private Pilot labs (AVTR 13200 Private Pilot Flight Lab 1 & AVTR 13300 Private Pilot Flight Lab 2) added onto their transcript under notations. This requires completion of the Review and Award of Academic Credit Form by the Chief of Pilot Training and the approval of the Department Chair. Credit hours for the by-pass are added to the student’s transcript during the second semester of the student’s attendance at Lewis University.

The by-pass exam includes the additional material appropriate to the additional ratings held.

By-pass credit hours (which are PLA or Prior Learning Assessment credits) awarded for a FAA license earned before matriculation do not replace the obligation of the student who pursues either the major or minor or associate degree in Aviation Flight Technology to complete at Lewis the required upper-division courses (AVTR 40000’s in the major curriculum; AVTR 33100 Commercial Pilot Ground School/[AVTR 33200 Commercial Pilot Flight Lab 1 & AVTR 33300 Commercial Pilot Flight Lab 2], AVTR 46000 Multi-Engine (MEL) Ground School/AVTR 46100 Multi-Engine (MEL) Flight Lab, or AVTR 40900 Flight Instructor Airplane (CFI-A) Flight Lab/AVTR 41000 Certified Flight Instructor Ground in the associate curriculum; and AVTR 33100 Commercial Pilot Ground School/[AVTR 33200 Commercial Pilot Flight Lab 1 & AVTR 33300 Commercial Pilot Flight Lab 2] in the minor curriculum). Completing these major/associate/minor requirements includes a series of flight lessons in these aforementioned upper-division courses at Lewis with a Lewis flight instructor, on-going flight performance evaluation by the instructor, demonstrated piloting ability, an oral or written examination, and a successful FAA flight check.

Flight Lab Completion

Flight labs must be completed in one semester, and students will receive standard letter grades for the flight labs. In order to receive a passing grade for each flight lab, students will be required to meet defined benchmarks. These are:

Students will only receive incomplete grades for flight labs due to unforeseen and extenuating personal circumstances, weather, and/or acts of God. Students who fail a flight lab will be required to retake the lab in the following term.

Bachelor

Associate

Minor