Originally Posted by
tcrews92
I plan on going to college to get my commercial pilots license, but I need a little advice on where to go to college at. I had planned on going to Spartan College of Aeronautics & Technology in Tulsa, OK but I read on the internet a bunch of negative reviews about it. I was wondering if anyone here trained at Spartan and can give me some inside on it, or would recommend me a great aviation college to go to.
sorry for the digression. to answer your question: if you are keen on going to a college for aviation, i would look at what the institution does for its students after they have left. if they are actively involved in career advancement/betterment both during your time there, and after; I'd say its worth looking into. a flight school is a flight school. the training is always going to be what you as a student make of it. you can go the the best flight school and do horribly, or the worst flight school and do wonderfully. a plane is going to stall just the same at a 61 or 141 school. also, look at the time they tell you it will take to get though everything. if it's a pilot mill that promises you will be in uniform and flying a jet 10 months from now, I'd look other places. a school such as that may be useful for an add on rating (multi, what have you), but from start to finish is a bad idea.
* where ever you do decide to go though, try like hell to do an internship somewhere. that will pad your resume with some experience as well as give you college credit. it also shows a professional attitude. GOOD LUCK!!!!