## Embry

- Riddle Aeronautical University Amendment Request

**Petition for exemption requestor:** Tim Brady 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd Daytona Beach, FL 32114 (386) 226

- 6457 bradyt@erau.edu

**Embry**
**- Riddle Aeronautical University is seeking an**  **amendment to exemption**  **No. 10957 ,**  **conditions and limitations number**  **4 :** 

“ ERAU can only exercise this exemption for its students who initially enrolled in the Aeronautical Science degree program between 2003 and 2011 and subsequently completed the commercial certificate and instrument rating ground and flight training under ERAU’s part 142 training center certificate. ” **Rationale for the exemption request:** When the exemption request was initialized Embry

- Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) only had one degree program (Aeronautical Science) approved on the Letter of Authorization (LOA). Since that period ERAU’s LOA has been revised and the following degree programs have been approved:
1. Aeronautical Science 2. Aeronautics 3. Aerospace Studies 4. Aviation Maintenance Science 5. Air Traffic Management 6. Applied Meteorology It is the university’s intent to seek approval for graduates of all approved degree programs that completed instrument and commercial training under part 142 to be included in the relief grated under exemption number 1 0957. The u niversity assumes that this is a reasonable request based on the following excerpts from exemption number 10957:
1. “The FAA finds that the training previously accomplished under ERAU’s part 142 training center is equivalent to the training curre ntly offered under ERAU’s part 141 pilot school.”2. “Given the regulatory requirements and the FAA’s ability to oversee the training that students receive under ERAU’s part 142 training program, the FAA finds that ERAU’s students were continuously evaluated through academic testing and flight observations as is accomplished under part 141.” 3. “In consideration of the foregoing, I find that a grant of exemption meets an equivalent level of safety and is in the public interest.” **Public benefit of exemption approval:** The FAA agreed in exemption 10957 with ERAU that approving training completed under part 142 is in the public interest since it would enable graduates to enter the airline industry sooner. **Impact on Safety:** The FAA agreed in exemption number 10957 that the grant of the exemption meets an equivalent level of safety. **Summary for Federal Register:** Embry

- Riddle Aeronautical University is seeking an amendment to exemption number 10957. When the exemption request was initialized Embry

- Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) only had one degree program (Aeronautical Science) approved on the Letter of Authorization (LOA). Since that period ERAU’s LOA has been revised and the following degree programs have been approved : 1. Aeronautical Science 2. Aeronautics 3. Aerospace Studies 4. Aviation Maintenance Science 5. Air Traffic Management 6. Applied Meteorology It is the university’s intent to seek approval for graduates of all approved degree programs that completed instrument and commerc ial training under part 142 to be included in the relief grated under exemption number 10957. The university assumes that this is a reasonable request based on the following excerpts from exemption number 10957:1. “The FAA finds that the training previousl y accomplished under ERAU’s part 142 training center is equivalent to the training currently offered under ERAU’s part 141 pilot school.” 2. “Given the regulatory requirements and the FAA’s ability to oversee the training that students receive under ERAU’s pa rt 142 training program, the FAA finds that ERAU’s students were continuously evaluated through academic testing and flight observations as is accomplished under part 141.” 3. “In consideration of the foregoing, I find that a grant of exemption meets an equivalent level of safety and is in the public interest.” This amendment would allow students in other approved degree programs who completed instrument and commercial flight training under FAR Part 142 to have the same relief that has been granted to ERAU Aeronautical Science graduates (exemption 10957). **Suggested wording for the Amended Exemption:** “ERAU can only exercise this exemption for its students who initially enrolled in the Aeronautical Science degree program, or the Aeronautics degree program, or the Aerospace Studies degree program, or the Aviation Maintenance Science degree program, or the Air Traffic Management degree program or the Applied Meteorology degree program between 2003 and 2011 and subsequently completed the commercial certificate and instrument rating ground and flight training under ERAU’s part 142 training center certificate.”