Hello there fellow pilots and (students) Just a little info about myself, I am currently attending a University that offers a degree in Aviation Education all the way up in South Dakota. Currently, I have my PPL, Instrument, and almost finished with my commercial rating, Only need 15 hours of multi-engine time. I am hoping to finish my commercial before summer is over and hopefully start my CFI this Fall. My dillema is this, am I better off staying in a small airport atmosphere or am I better off finishing my degree and getting to a bigger airport and Flight instruct? Actually we have a pretty good program going right now, about 120 students, with fairly new C-172s, a Beechcraft Sierra, and a Piper Seminole. I have 2 years of college remaining and I was hoping to graduate in May '07. The main drawback of staying here is that most of our students lack the experience in flying in bigger airport atmospheres. However, with all the flight training including the twin I have known instructors to go from 250 TT to having 1200 TT and 100 Multi in just over a year. It is my dream to go on to the airlines someday, although another downfall to our program is that we do not have a simulator and most of our grads that go on to the regionals, have a problem when they are put into a simulator durig interviews? So if anyone has some advice as to should I stick around here, graduate and then hopefully be close to my 1000TT and 100 ME, and start throwing apps to the regionals? Or should I pack up and get somewhere else?