pagey

Razzles or bust!! DAB is interesting to say the least. Really fun sometimes, and slit your wrist terrible at others. I have no regrets about going there, but honestly if I had it to do all over again I'd go to a bigger more traditional college. I used to get jealous of friends I had at FSU or UF when I went to visit them....totally different atmosphere.

Stratapilot

BS Aviation Biz Admin summer 2004 grad. haha..girls...riiiight. As for parties think sausage fest. If you want real college girls hit up Stetson in Deland for a good time. Other than that, get ready for 4 years of celibacy. Add Lotion and tissues to your shopping list.

DylanFan

If you get a chance during the tour, actually talk to some regular students while you're there. They'll give you the real scoop and tell you what to expect there.

The lifestyle really is what you make it. I met a girl there so it isn't impossible.

As far as the classroom stuff goes, Aeronautical Science is cake. You will learn a lot about flying in the classes and the professors are awesome in general, but don't expect to do any calculus in those classes.

If you look up "overkill" in the dictionary there is some mention of the ERAU flight department. The people that fare best at ERAU come there with their multi and CFII and never touch a Riddle airplane. At the very least get your private before you show up. About a third of the Aero Sci students leave Riddle after the first year and almost a third more switch their majors so they can fly off campus. The flight department is to blame for a lot of it. I'm convinced most of their overkill policies are in place to simply weed out students.

One more thing. The main reason to go to Riddle is not for the education, training, or the name. They aren't necessarily worth the money. The biggest thing you'll gain there is the friends and connections. After graduation, you'll probably know someone working for (or furloughed from) every regional in the country. And later on you'll know someone at every major in the country. (Well, hopefully you will anyway.) These same friends and connections could be made at any aviation school, so that isn't specific advantage for ERAU.

Good luck wherever you end up.

inky13

Really?

The flight line is a business and in order to make business and money you need customers (among other things). Why would they intentionally "weed out" their customers?

ERAU-PRC had to borrow an airplane from the PHX area because we were flying the students so much this fall. We are getting paid more because of it.

woodfinx

You can either have aviation and college or girls and college, but not girls, aviation, and college, the FAA strictly forbids this

JoeyMeatballs

The problem is there are so little girls there, that each one thinks they are pretty or special, if they were at any other school they would get beer cans thrown at them at parties....


Also don't go to Riddle College is supposed to be fun, I have a lot of good friends that went there but there are so many "Pilot geeks" there, I remember somone having a license plate that said like FLYERAU, or C172CA, it was just sad.......

Stratapilot

Not to mention ALOT of spoiled "bro's" with extremely rich parents. When I was in DAB some kid got a lamborghini airlifted to the airport for a birthday present, he parked it in the student village circle just so everyone could see it. He wrecked it a week later.

PFactor

LOL at all the waaammbulance and french cries in this thread. "There's no girls waahhh wahhh." Sometimes you have to operate outside the box. You're right if you're going to your turbine systems class to pick up chicks Brah, you're going to have a tough time. However, if you have a personality and don't just sit and play flight sim all night I think you'll find it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Also, there are rich kids at every school. I would go so far as to say that the average Riddle student comes from your standard middle-class family home. Super rich lambo coolness is certainly non-standard...Brah. Brah, there's brah's at every school...it's cool brah. Dog the Bounty hunter keeps it real with the Brah's too.

JoeyMeatballs

Yeah it was funny watching these spoiled kids go out in Daytona and run their mouth thinking the hillbilles down there wouldnt beat there a**'s. It was funny the school had a ton of WASPY type kids, and then right outside in downtown Daytona there was the redneck confederate flag types

I did meet some cool guys there though, but getting a degree in Aero-Sci is suicide if you ask me, the licenses you get come from the FAA, wether its a local FBO or overpriced Riddle, I dunno

ryan1234

The Riddle bookstore sold those "I love the smell of jet fuel in the morning" t-shirts like hotcakes....

sometimes people's dorm room doors would be open... you'd just glace in while walking down the hall.... almost every dorm room had one of the 172 cockpit posters... with the Top Gun movie poster right next to it....