Originally Posted by inky13

Wow.

Hopefully we've established that the right college differs among people. I'm not trying to sell Riddle at all...I know it's not the right college for everyone. I'm simply, and trying, to just share my experience with our fellow high-school pilot-to-be's where we once were. I sent in four college apps my senior year of HS and for me ERAU was the one I chose, after much deliberation of whether I can afford it or not. We all have our opinion on whether or not it's worth it, and I believe we've expressed them.

Hey, I had fun in the dorms, sneaking in alcohol and such. (I was a drinker [well, still am, not as much], but not a smoker) It's important to have fun indeed, however you consider fun to be. I lived my first two years in the dorms, it was a great way to meet people. In fact, I'm still living with the two guys I've lived with since Freshman year. We were probably the ones who were making the noise at 3am, sorry. I don't know if Daytona does the First Year Experience thing for Freshmen, but I would recommend to stay away from it. I wasn't part of it and am glad because as far as I can tell the people that I knew who were in it hated it. You were required to attend every little campus event, were isolated with the other freshmen from the upper classmen, and didn't have the best dorms available (from Prescott point of view that is).

To the person who wanted to get more information, hopefully we've helped. If not, please let us know.

And also, I would agree that the G1000 is not the best airplane for primary students, instrument yes, but not the basic VFR stuff. As a flight instructor, I'm going to try to emphasize on not relying on everything the the magic G1000 can do for us. However, our Seminoles still have the steam to them and that's what we use for our instrument ride for the certificate. As far as simulators are concerned, yeah we are considered "sim jockeys", but realize we were a Part 142 school during my time as a student (We've gone back to 141 last year). I don't see sims used too much for primary students, only to help procedures, but in instrument training they are. I have about 80 hrs in the sim myself, to give somewhat of a perspective.