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Winter 2023: Currently accepting applications
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Fall 2023: Applications open Oct. 3, 2022
Winter 2023: Currently accepting applications
Summer 2023: Currently accepting applications
Fall 2023: Applications open Oct. 3, 2022
Get ready to achieve your dreams at 40,000 feet. In the Associate of Arts for Future Professional Pilots program, you'll take courses that are university-transferable and are relevant to the aviation industry, such as geography courses relating to climate and weather, as well as psychology and business courses.
This program is jointly offered with Professional Flight Centre, at Boundary Bay Airport in Delta. Douglas provides the academic instruction leading to the Associate of Arts Degree, while the Professional Flight Centre provides the ground and flying instruction, offering enough flight experience to allow you to obtain a Commercial Pilot License and Multi-Engine Instrument Rating. These components together will provide you with the foundation you need for a career in the aviation industry.
Please note that you will need to apply separately to both Douglas and the Professional Flight Centre.
You can get an average cost for your program - tuition and student fees, books, uniforms, lab fees etc - on the Program Cost page.
Only programs approved for student loan funding are listed on the Program Cost page. For all other programs, refer to the Tuition Fee page.
Graduation requirements:
Discussions with professional pilots and flight instructors suggest that students would be well advised to take courses in Climate, Psychology, and Commerce/Business as part of their Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
Students should select their courses towards the Associate of Arts Degree strategically based on their intended transfer destination and major if that is their intended pathway.
Recommended Courses
The program identifies a set of recommended courses:
GEOG 2210 (Climatology) and PSYC 2360 (Cognitive Psychology) are recommended at the second year level.
The following are the general requirements for an Associate of Arts Degree at any B.C. college:
6 credits first-year English* electives
6 credits Humanities** electives
6 credits Social Sciences** electives
6 credits Arts** electives
18 credits second-year Arts** electives in 2 or more subject areas
3 credits Lab Science elective
3 credits Math, Statistics or Computing Science elective
3 credits Math, Statistics or Science elective
9 credits other University Transfer electives
Notes:
*English courses can include courses in written Communications (CMNS) and Creative Writing (CRWR) that transfer to one of the B.C. research universities (SFU, UBC, UVic, or UNBC) as English credit. A maximum of 3 credits can come from such an equivalent; at least 3 credits must be earned in an actual ENGL course, so-named. For purposes of the Associate of Arts degree, English courses cannot be counted as Humanities courses.
** Arts courses are available in the Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Performing Arts, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. To confirm whether a course is designated as "humanities" or "social sciences", check the Associate of Arts Degree Graduation Requirement Checklist. Courses in Economics and Mathematics also may be used as Arts electives toward an Associate of Arts Degree.
Definitions
A course is defined by the subject for which it is granted transfer credit at one of the research universities (SFU, UBC, UNBC, or UVic).
Program Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this program and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the program, consider the previous version as the applicable version.