Originally Posted by Okie_Pilot

Welcome aboard EugeneZ.

I'm just about in the same position as you are. I'm a junior in high school and look forward to hopefully making a life out of flying. I'm currently working on my PPL now and will hopefully have that finished up by April.

Please research any flight school or college before making your final decision. I was really looking into going to ERAU when I found this forum and read the thread on them. They completely convinced me that it was a big waste of money and life.

AOPA is a help in finding school's that offer an aviation degree or the certificates. Just check out this link:

http://flighttraining.aopa.org/learn...tion_colleges/

I ran into a website that listed a whole bunch of schools and aviation colleges and would let you request information from the schools through their website. I just ran down the list and requested information from every school. In the next two weeks, I got a whole stack of information on different schools and filtered through them to see which ones I liked and which ones I didn't. I wish I had the URL for you but I can't remember it.

Another "tip" I've learned on this website is don't get an aviation degree. Diversify yourself and get a degree in something else you enjoy. I'm thinking on getting a Business Administration degree and hoping that it may help out in the Corporate side of aviation. From what I've read, as long as you have a degree, it really doesn't matter.

Be sure to check out that link, you may find something nearby that suits your needs.


--Okie Pilot