Originally Posted by
ERAUAV8TR
First off all you are blurring the lines of military and civilian education. Yes chuck only had a high school diploma. If he had a degree he would have been eligible to be an astronaut. He went to test pilot school and also created and expanded the foundations of test pilot curriculums. Military pilots go to ground school for long durations of time are required advance degrees to progress and are given free credits to war colleges. Civilian get two weeks of PowerPoint and thats it. Spoon feed nowadays.
A lot of those mil guys started out as barnstormers, circus flyers, and crop dusters, too.
What you describe is more of a failure of training, rather than a failure of the individual.
The best pilots you’ve flown with are college grads because that is what the industry requires, and what most pilots bring to the table these days.
College didn’t make me a better pilot, I went to college because I knew that was what was needed to achieve my goals.
Most degrees these days are worthless, anyway. If you’re paying for any undergrad major that isn’t a hard science or engineering, you’re wasting your (parents’) money. That’s why so many students are leaving school $100k in debt for an education that gets them a $30k/year job.
That’s a whole other discussion!