Originally Posted by ERAU08

I am an intern right now in Houston. Will be graduating this December. I did ERAU in 3 years also which is not a bad way to do it when it comes to cost savings. I did my private and instrument and some basic classes before I got there and have probably spent about half as much as a 4 year guy who does all his ratings at Riddle.

I do have to admit...they rip you off on the flight training. They claim its the best anywhere but when you get down to it...why pay so much more for the same thing that some other guy you might fly with got for half the price at an FBO? Having both instructed and flown at 4 other flight schools, I can tell you that ERAU is not perfect and there are many advantages at other flight training facilities. They go to extremes on their checkrides to...most of the check pilots are ridiculously meticulous when compared to a DE and Riddle has an extremely high overall fail rate for checkrides. I guess they still havent figured out that this really hurts their students later on. Even better...I have found it to be quite hillarious that the 737 checklist at the airline I am interning with is shorter than Riddle's Cessna 172 checklist as well as the 737 flows are less complicated, and has much fewer emergency memory items than the 737. I never realized how complex and difficult it must be to fly a Cessna.

The degree is great, you learn alot from your aero. science classes, and they help you out alot with internships and such. I really enjoyed the classes and professors. Just do as much as you can before you get there and don't let them sell you their "amazing" flight trainnig department. Its overrated.