Originally Posted by forgot to bid

As to the Auburn issue and take this for what its worth because its an interesting perspective on how people see us (airline pilots). When I was at Auburn their aviation program was in engineering, where it was the unwanted love child. It was a truck driving school and beneath them although they liked the head count income. It got transferred to the reluctant business school because, again, its a truck driving school. But they've made the best run at it as they could. Now there are a huge amount of fantastic people (Auburn is full of those ) inside the school and alumni working tirelessly to get the flying part of the program to where it should be but the resistance inside a large risk-adverse bureaucracy is tremendous, unfair and backwards but sadly understandable. When you've got big traditional schools to take care of why put yourself at risk with some punk kids that are your responsibility flying a Cessna 172 that you own around? Good luck to the alumni.