The reason they give you that kind of money is because you can't dump it in bankruptcy. So the .gov loans allow inflation to skyrocket without proper price discovery.

Since you brought it up... how does ERAU convince so many kids to come there? I am not throwing rocks at anybody that did, but I have heard many guys talk about how pricey it was to go there. And when the shiite hits the fan in the industry, you wind up with a degree that doesn't seem to help much in a world where aviation people are out of work. It just seems that it is classic putting all of one's eggs in the same bucket. And then seeing what tuition is there... wow. They must have one heluva recruiting department.

And I had post #165000...

Hindsight I would have gone to a state school had more fun and learned to fly on the weekends.
The all eggs in a basket and pay a high price was honestly the pay that the majors had late 90's.

Thought process was I'll be making 150k in 5 years so 30k a year for school chump change.
Now a days I can't imagine paying the price.

Are you talking about the augument turns?

If so, then you're mistaken. 737= no haz rest facility.

Captain Happy?

Settle down Captain Happy.


I've been corrected about this before.

Yep. State University and mom-and-pop flight school is the correct formula. Always has been.

That was my formula. Worked good, hopefully lasts long time. :)

Looks like Grumpy Cat got in on the action, too:

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Kind of like leaving our back door wide open and facilitating the entry of illegal aliens using our own tax payer dollars, including those from terror-supporting countries who seek to destroy us...using...such things as...airplanes. Or, "necessarily skyrocketing" the price of the energy upon which our industry relies ...Would we even have an FFDO program if the D's had been in control after 9-11?

I used to agree to the union mantra of "vote your job" (therefore vote D)...until I realized...no country: no job.

Clearly, keeping the 747's longer would have been better, but how are displacements from parking 4 747's tempered "only a little" by the delivery of 10 330's? Or are you referring to the fact that guys will still be displaced from the 747 to the 330?