Course Description

This intensive program begins each fall and winter, allowing students to complete their studies within one calendar year. The Aviation Business Studies Program features more than 900 hours of instructional time, including 200 hours of flight training (27 multi), and 200 hours of ground school. Students have the option of continuing their studies a second year to obtain a college diploma.

The Aviation Business Studies Program is offered by a partnership between Harv's Air and Red River College in Steinbach. Course fees are paid separately to Harv's and Red River College. Financial Assistance is available to Canadian and UK residents..

• Red River College courses and fees

• Harv's Air courses and fees

RRC: Courses, descriptions, and fees:

Course options:

B11A191 Introductory Accounting – A
Double-entry bookkeeping routine, adjustments and work sheet for preparation of financial statements, financial statements pertaining to sole proprietorship, special journals, subsidiary ledgers and controlling accounts. Complete accounting cycle for service and merchandise business.

B13M612 Introduction to Business (BA)
A broad analysis of business concepts, functional internal characteristics of a business and the inter-relationships among business, government and the consumer.

B13R713 Business Mathematics
This course begins with a review of basic arithmetic and algebraic operations. This is followed by a study of the application ratio, proportion, and percent to business problems, including trade and cash discounts, commissions and fees, taxes, markups and income statement analysis. Finally the student is introduced to financial mathematic topics: simple interest and discount, equivalent payment, and negotiable instruments.

B14M101 Basic Marketing - 1
This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic marketing concepts and institutions involved in Canadian marketing as well as demographics and psychographics. The course seeks to develop within students a critical outlook and decision making ability with regard to marketing.

B15S116 Business Computing 1
This course will cover an introduction to Windows, the Internet and E-mail as well as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

B16E841 Basic Business Communication
This course provides an introduction to the processes and techniques involved in effective writing and speaking for business. The focus this term will be informational: students will learn how to organize and present factual material. Assignments will include a routine memo, a "good news" letter, and a short informational speech. This course will stress not only the final product, but also the process of writing: recognizing and adapting to the audience, outlining, drafting, and editing. Through spending time on the components of written messages (sentence structure), students will learn to convey messages more clearly.

B11A291 Introductory Accounting - B
Accounting for inventories and their valuation, procedures and techniques in the treatment of plant and equipment transactions, and control procedures for cash and receivables and payroll.

B12E171 Economic Principles BA - 1
This course is a study of micro economic principles, involving an investigation of our market structures and how price is determined under varying conditions in the market place. Emphasis is placed on the role of the price system in allocating resources in a mixed free enterprise system, with comparisons drawn between our system and alternative systems.

B13R703 Financial Mathematics
The application of mathematics to practical business problems. The concept of compound interest is applied to single payments, present values, various annuities, debt extinction, sinking funds, bond investments, and capital expenditure decisions. The application of mathematics to practical business problems. The concept of compound interest is applied to single payments, present values, various annuities, debt extinction, sinking funds, bond investments, and capital expenditure decisions.

B14M202 Basic Marketing - 2
Basic Marketing 2 builds on the principles developed in B14M101. This course provides a more in depth analysis of the four elements in the marketing mix: product, place, promotion and price. In addition the student examines in more detail the various marketing institutions, and finally learns to develop integrated marketing strategy.

B15S216 Business Computing - 2
This course is a continuation of B15S116 and will cover additional topics in Windows; advanced features of Excel such as conditional statements, table lookup and OLE (object linking and embedding); advanced features of Word such as desktop publishing, mail merge and OLE; and an introduction to Microsoft Access.

B16E852 Intermediate Business Communication
Students will further develop and expand skills learned in Basic Business Communication by exposure to more challenging kinds of information writing and oral communication. Students will learn more about organizing and packaging information within an organization through writing a short informational report and presenting it orally, and gain further practice in the routing "good news" letters sent to customers and suppliers and the less common "bad news" letters which use a different organizing principle. Punctuation and business style will be emphasized.

B11A391 Introductory Accounting - C
This course covers accounting procedures, methods and techniques as they apply to limited companies, share capital, retained earnings, long-term liabilities and investments.

B12E272 Economic Principles BA - 2
Macro-economic principles are studied including the nature and determinants of national income, business cycles and fluctuations, the monetary system, and monetary and fiscal policies.

B13R706 Statistics - 1
This course is an introduction to economic and business statistics. Topics include: charts and graphs, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and confidence intervals. Calculators and computers will be used.

B13S513 Human Behavior in Organization (B.A./S.S/Bus.Ed.)
This course is concerned with the study of individual and group behavior in organized or purposeful group settings. Students will acquire knowledge of general psychological principles and develop skill in applying that knowledge to social and organizational situations.

B15S316 Introduction to E-Business
Fundamentals of E-Business - this course is intended to provide students with an exposure to the key business and technology elements of electronic business. The course will stress the business foundations of E-Business. It will explore the underlying technologies in on-line business activities and how to employ them most efficiently.

B16E843 Advanced Business Communication
In this course, students will learn how to write an effective resume as well as an application letter and other documents related to employment. Students will research a company and present their findings in both the written and oral modes. They will also participate in two mock job interviews.

B12L360 Business Law - 1
This course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of law in general and of business law in particular. It is aimed at developing an understanding and appreciation of the rights and responsibilities attached to a wide range of activities necessarily incident to the business and commercial fields. The course begins with an introduction to the meaning and sources of our law and to the structure of and the proceedings within our court system. It continues with an introduction to tort law; various torts are defined and their legal significance studied. Finally, the law relating to contracts is examined extensively: the essential elements of contracts, vitiating elements, discharge of contract and breach of contract.

This course is a continuation of B13R706. Interference Statistics involves the use of sample information to estimate population parameters and test various claims for significance. This course uses some of the descriptive measures developed in Statistics 1 to allow conclusions to be drawn based on limited information. Major topics include: estimation and hypothesis testing of means and proportions, chi-squared analysis, simple regression and correlation, time series and forecasting, and index numbers. Students will be exposed to Excel computer applications on a weekly-basis in a microcomputer lab.


B11O400 Simply Accounting
Students will learn to work within a Windows-based, real time, accounting software application. Students will modify the set-up process business transactions and print reports using the modules available.

B13O402 Project Management for Business
This course covers project management theory and has the student scheduling, organizing, analyzing tasks, deadlines and resources using Microsoft Project software. Students may not hold credit for both B13-O402 Project Management for Business and B15-S716 Contemporary Topics in E-Business.

Red River College Tuition fee

Canadian students	$3700
International students	$5000
Books and supplies	Approximately $700

All fees in Canadian money, including all taxes and fees.

Harv's Air Service: Courses, descriptions, and fees:

Basic Flight Theory (Private Pilot Ground School)
This course consists of 60 hours of ground school, leading leading up to the Transport Canada administered written Private Pilot examination. Includes instruction on Basic Air Law, General Knowledge, Weather, and Navigation. Flight Training Device time is also included.

Advanced Flight Theory I (Commercial Pilot Ground School)
This course consists of 80 hours of ground school leading up to the Transport Canada administered written Commercial Pilot examination. Includes instruction on Commercial Air Law, Advanced General Knowledge, Advanced Weather, Radio Navigation, Dangerous Goods Training, and Cockpit Resource Management.

Advanced Flight Theory II (Multi IFR Ground School)
This course consists of 60 hours of ground school leading up to the Transport Canada administered written Instrument Rating examination. Includes instruction on Multi Engine aerodynamics, Instrument flight procedures, High Altitude Weather, and Instrument Radio Navigation. 

Private Pilot Flight Lab I
This course consists of approximately 25 hours of flight training in light single engine aircraft and concludes with the student having completed his/her first solo flight.

Private Flight Lab II
Flight training in light single engine aircraft (approx. 30 hours flight hours) continues and the course leads to the Private Pilot flight test. Having passed both the written and flight test, the student receives the Private Pilot Licence.

Intermediate Flight Lab
This course is a prerequisite to obtain the Commercial Pilot Licence. The main objective of this course is the Night Endorsement, VFR Navigation Flight test, and a Multi-Engine Flight test (complex airplane). Total of 25 hours flight training

Commercial Flight Lab I
This course allows the student to prepare for the Commercial Pilot flight test by means of dual and solo practice. Total of 35 hours flying.

Commercial Flight Lab II
This course allows the student to prepare for the Commercial Pilot flight test by means of dual and solo practice. Total of 30 hours flying.

Introduction to Instrument Flying
This course consists 20 hours on a flight-training device (simulator). It covers the instrument scan, and to gain familiarization with Instrument Flight Reference Procedures.

Instrument Flight Lab
This course consists of instrument flying in a Cessna 172 or Twin Beech Travelair under actual or simulated instrument meteorological conditions. The course ends with the Transport Canada administered Instrument Flight Test. Total of 25 hours flight training.

Weekend seminars
Students are required to take at least two of the following weekend seminars: PDM (Pilot Decision Making), CRM (Crew Recourse Management) Training, IFR GPS, or First Aid level 1.

Flight Instructor Rating Click here for more details (price not included below)
This course allows the student to pursue further qualifications as a flight instructor

Cost breakdown:

Dual Training: 100 hours
7	hours dual in a Citabria 7-ECA (taildragger) @	$121 per hour	$847
2	hours dual in a PA-28-140 (Cherokee) @	$125 per hour	$250
3	hours dual in a Cessna 172 @	$129 per hour	$387
51	hours dual in a Cessna 152 @	$117 per hour	$5,967
27	hours dual in a Beech 95 (twin engine) @	$245 per hour	$6,615
10	hours dual in a Flight Training Device @	$75 per hour	$750

Solo Training: 100 hours
10	hours solo in a Citabria 7-ECA (Taildragger) @	$84 per hour	$840
10	hours solo in a PA-28-140 (Cherokee) @	$88 per hour	$880
40	hours solo in a Cessna 172 @	$92 per hour	$3,680
40	hours solo in a Cessna 152 @	$80 per hour	$3,200

Ground School and Pilot Training Supplies
Private Pilot Ground School Course			$300
Private Pilot Kit (books, flight computers, ect.)			$314
Commercial Pilot Ground School Course			$325
Commercial Pilot Kit (books, flight computers, ect.)			$250
Multi Engine Ground School Course			$100
Multi Engine Pilot Kit (books, flight computers, ect.)			$50
Instrument Rating Ground School Course			$300
Instrument Pilot Kit (books, flight computers, ect.)			$200
40	hours preflight briefings @	$32 /hour (one to one with instructor)	$1,280
Transport Canada fees: Flight test, written test, licence fees			$1,330
Taxes			$2000
Total			$29865

All fees in Canadian money, including all taxes and fees.