Daniel Webster
03-24-2007, 09:16 PM
#4
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2006
Position: XL/XLS, FO
Posts: 199
I'm a DWC grad ('97). Although it's been 10 years, I can probably help you out. Plusses right off the top of my head:
-Great location
-Small and friendly / personal
-top flight training and ground instruction - NOT your standard puppy mill
-brand new fleet
-the glider and aerobatic training is a great addition to the program
-beautiful new buildings including a theater
-Ski Day!!
-new president will take the school far
Minusses:
-expensive
-I'm still paying for my degree (and my wife's)
-small - division 3 sports
-low m/f ratio
I can't complain about much other than the cost. I was accepted at both riddle and DWC, but I got the better financial aid at Webster. You can supplimen t the cost by working on campus doing various jobs. I had two and it helped pay for the room/board. Bottom line is that I got a great aviation education and it got me to where I always wanted to be.
If you want more info, let me know and I can hook you up with people there. Drop a couple key names and they will do nything for you.
-Great location
-Small and friendly / personal
-top flight training and ground instruction - NOT your standard puppy mill
-brand new fleet
-the glider and aerobatic training is a great addition to the program
-beautiful new buildings including a theater
-Ski Day!!
-new president will take the school far
Minusses:
-expensive
-I'm still paying for my degree (and my wife's)
-small - division 3 sports
-low m/f ratio
I can't complain about much other than the cost. I was accepted at both riddle and DWC, but I got the better financial aid at Webster. You can supplimen t the cost by working on campus doing various jobs. I had two and it helped pay for the room/board. Bottom line is that I got a great aviation education and it got me to where I always wanted to be.
If you want more info, let me know and I can hook you up with people there. Drop a couple key names and they will do nything for you.
03-25-2007, 12:25 AM
#5
Piper Commander
Joined APC: Aug 2006
Position: PA44 - Right
Posts: 302
As i remember from a fellow intern, it was just another school. The cool things it had was the glider and aerobatic training. Remember, get that degree....its more important than the flying. Well, thats what I think. Others may argue but thats how I feel. i assume you want to fly jets for an airline so go somewhere that you enjoy and study something you love for the experience.
03-25-2007, 04:32 AM
#6
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Posts: 762
Daniel Webster no longer has any aerobatic aircraft. There CAP 10(B?), and all CAP 10s were grounded in the US do to a problem with the wing spar. They might be getting some in the future. They still have the motorgliders (Grob 109Bs).
03-25-2007, 07:21 AM
#7
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Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 101
Originally Posted by Pilot_135
I'm a DWC grad ('97). Although it's been 10 years, I can probably help you out. Plusses right off the top of my head:
-Great location
-Small and friendly / personal
-top flight training and ground instruction - NOT your standard puppy mill
-brand new fleet
-the glider and aerobatic training is a great addition to the program
-beautiful new buildings including a theater
-Ski Day!!
-new president will take the school far
Minusses:
-expensive
-I'm still paying for my degree (and my wife's)
-small - division 3 sports
-low m/f ratio
I can't complain about much other than the cost. I was accepted at both riddle and DWC, but I got the better financial aid at Webster. You can supplimen t the cost by working on campus doing various jobs. I had two and it helped pay for the room/board. Bottom line is that I got a great aviation education and it got me to where I always wanted to be.
If you want more info, let me know and I can hook you up with people there. Drop a couple key names and they will do nything for you.
-Great location
-Small and friendly / personal
-top flight training and ground instruction - NOT your standard puppy mill
-brand new fleet
-the glider and aerobatic training is a great addition to the program
-beautiful new buildings including a theater
-Ski Day!!
-new president will take the school far
Minusses:
-expensive
-I'm still paying for my degree (and my wife's)
-small - division 3 sports
-low m/f ratio
I can't complain about much other than the cost. I was accepted at both riddle and DWC, but I got the better financial aid at Webster. You can supplimen t the cost by working on campus doing various jobs. I had two and it helped pay for the room/board. Bottom line is that I got a great aviation education and it got me to where I always wanted to be.
If you want more info, let me know and I can hook you up with people there. Drop a couple key names and they will do nything for you.
Pilot_135, are you flying out of Pease AFB by chance?
03-25-2007, 02:24 PM
#8
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: DHC-8 100/300 CA
Posts: 238
I'm a current senior at Webster. I agree with all the plusses and minuses. Small school, great individual attention. Skip has a bunch of great ideas as the new president. Our new flight division chair seems to be the right man for the job.
We do not have the Cap-10B's anymore. Wing spar delamination doomed these nice planes. I was one of only 2 in my current class to fly them. They were great airplanes and I hope we'll replace them.
Our glider program is still active, but rumor has it we're getting rid of the Grob 109B's for something else. We'll see what happens.
Aviation faculty is excellent. A lot of guys from military, corporate and airlines. Tons of experience among them.
First year tuition for the upcoming year will be expensive. However, we offer a large number of scholarships and grants to help offset that. Plus on campus jobs help even more.
We have a fairly active sports program. Baseball, soccer, basketball and hockey pretty much sum it up.
The fleet is pretty standard: 19 C-172s, 3 Arrows, 3 Seminoles and 4 gliders.
The program is intense and it is not for everyone. Flight dropout rate is something like 2/3. However, stick with it and you will have the knowledge down cold. Great preparation for an airline career.
I'm hoping to work as an instructor there next year. Hope to see you around.
Feel free to ask for anymore information.
-MJ
We do not have the Cap-10B's anymore. Wing spar delamination doomed these nice planes. I was one of only 2 in my current class to fly them. They were great airplanes and I hope we'll replace them.
Our glider program is still active, but rumor has it we're getting rid of the Grob 109B's for something else. We'll see what happens.
Aviation faculty is excellent. A lot of guys from military, corporate and airlines. Tons of experience among them.
First year tuition for the upcoming year will be expensive. However, we offer a large number of scholarships and grants to help offset that. Plus on campus jobs help even more.
We have a fairly active sports program. Baseball, soccer, basketball and hockey pretty much sum it up.
The fleet is pretty standard: 19 C-172s, 3 Arrows, 3 Seminoles and 4 gliders.
The program is intense and it is not for everyone. Flight dropout rate is something like 2/3. However, stick with it and you will have the knowledge down cold. Great preparation for an airline career.
I'm hoping to work as an instructor there next year. Hope to see you around.
Feel free to ask for anymore information.
-MJ
04-01-2007, 06:13 PM
#9
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: 737 Left
Posts: 202
Ahhh DWC...
They actually turned me down for admission way back in 1980. So I went and got a business degree elsewhere and flew my tail off on the side. Now whenever I have a trip to/from MHT, I always think of this and wonder if I would have gotten as far as I did if they accepted me.
Point is, I've had a decent career thus far (probably luck more than anything else..) and feel that I was not any less prepared for it because I didn't attend a flight college. And, I paid a lot less.
They actually turned me down for admission way back in 1980. So I went and got a business degree elsewhere and flew my tail off on the side. Now whenever I have a trip to/from MHT, I always think of this and wonder if I would have gotten as far as I did if they accepted me.
Point is, I've had a decent career thus far (probably luck more than anything else..) and feel that I was not any less prepared for it because I didn't attend a flight college. And, I paid a lot less.
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