Originally Posted by
Typhoonpilot
It is a good site, certainly informative for any aspiring professional pilot. I would disagree with some of the absolute statements included though. Instead of steering someone away from an aviation degree it might be better to discuss that it is a hotly debated topic. You're making one person's opinion ( yours ) an absolute. I happen to disagree to a large extent, as do others.
Typhoonpilot
Thanks Typhoon. Honestly, I would completely disagree with your assessment about an aviation related degree, but I'm willing to put on the website why you think it is GOOD to get an aviation related degree (i.e. Aviation Science, Aviation Management, etc.) in the "advice from others" section if you want to put a brief, <200 word synopsis together (see that section of the website please). I specifically say those 2 types of degrees are pretty useless when the industry goes into the dumps because that's what I have seen, first hand, at my airline concerning the furloughees that I have flown with. I also have one of those "Aeronautical" degrees and although I received an excellent, technical education AND it definitely helped me with my understanding of my craft, it's pretty useless if my airline liquidates IMHO.
An aeronautical engineer degree is an
engineering degree, and that is one of the example degrees I mention that is a "good" degree to get IMHO. In fact, I know a guy personally who was furloughed and because he had an aeronautical engineering degree he ended up getting a better paying job at Boeing during his long furlough.
Originally Posted by
Fred Flintstone
Great site, well thought out articles. Good Job!
Just one pesky suggestion:
Someone searching for info about entering the piloting field will not search for "The Profession", but for "Becoming an Airline Pilot". If you want exposure and search rankings, you will have to use a proper noun in your subject. There are many professions, from the oldest one to ours!
Cheers, and thanks for making your research available.
From what I have read from weebly, it takes more than just a title (no matter what you title a website) to get indexed by a search engine, particularly google. In a previous post on this thread, I put the fields that weebly wants in order to be indexed by a search engine. If you know what I should enter in those fields to facilitate indexing, I'm more than willing to give it a try.
Originally Posted by
shadyops
You should put a page on the site featuring testimonials attesting to the accuracy of your information. It will further add to your credibility.
I hope that the "advice from others" section will do that somewhat. I also put on the home page of the site that the reader of the site should read what I write, but also use other sources of information as well to verify what I write as accurate. At some point, I'm going to put links to popular, active aviation forums like this one, because I know that if a young pilot or career changer comes HERE for advice, he will likely receive good information.