I have several buddies that gave me crap for not taking all my flight courses at ERAU. I could not afford it and it took forever due to the ineptitude of the flight program. The flight program seemed to only let students fly if the weather was perfect and it took forever to get a license there. I hated the prevalent cocky attitude there but attitudes like that always come back to bite one in the butt. I later flight instructed with many of those same people and they did not know crap about pt 61 and were afraid to fly in any type of weather. I have to give credit to the post above about getting experience at the Airline before upgrading. It is called a healthy respect for the responsibilities at hand. That Riddle attitude is a cancer and they still believe there is a pilot shortage. It is a ERAU marketing ploy. I do have to give credit to many of my professors there because the academic portion was great, the flight portion of it was screwed up in many ways with a lot of inbreeding that just wanted to make me puke.