I just graduated from Riddle, I've been here for 2 years now. I've been a flight student, an ROTC cadet, an student assistant, a flight instructor and now a master's student. I feel I can talk with some degree of knowledge about the school.

So this is what I see.

1. Students dont think that they will get a high paying job when they are done with school (it was a surprise for example the program with spirit airlines). Everybody that I know is aware that they will have to move their way up from the bottom.---to give you an idea, we had a huge lost of flight instructors last year when the regionals were hiring like crazy.

2. Professors don't create the illusion that you will be in a major airline right after school. Most of our professors didnt retire 30 years ago from the airlines, in fact we have a big mix of backgrounds (military, airline, corporate, CFIs who stayed in the school for all these years). And the guys from the airlines are a mix too, some of them came after the 9/11 debacle. Others just didnt want to continue the airline life-----what it is common among the ex-airline guys is the FURLOUGH word.

3. The school is a business, like any other business they will rise prises as far as people are willing to pay. I see some people in these forums saying that the school trick them into think that they would do a lot of money after graduating. And to be honest with you I haven't heard that yet......but if it happen like that.......they were stupid to believe it......how can you embark yourself in a 4 year education with out doing a good research of what you are getting into.

To conclude, anybody who comes to Riddle with out knowing that is going to spend 45K a year as a flight student or thinking that is going to jump from Riddle to Delta, is smoking.----in which case, I will understand his/her frustration in these forums.