LAfrequentflyer

Eat-sleep-breathe aviation

With flight-training businesses located at just about every airport, why learn to fly at a university, and why choose Embry-Riddle?
“The major airlines only hire college graduates, so why not get that degree at Embry-Riddle?” Howell asks. “The academic education that students get here is value-added. We steep them in four years of eat-sleep-and-breathe aviation.”
“They’re also getting first-quality, professional level flight training that’s well suited to the structured world of airline operations,” Howell says. “They know how to do things procedurally the minute they’re on the job.”
Coming from a university with the nation’s largest aeronautical science program gives graduates an edge in getting pilot jobs. “A manager at a major airline told me recently that a third of their pilots have Embry-Riddle degrees,” Howell says.
With numbers like that, he says, “our graduates come to the hiring table with a credibility that serves them well.”
Rob Eichelbaum shares that assessment. “When the interviewer asks where you did your flight training and you say Embry-Riddle, it’s done,” he says. “Embry-Riddle is the standard in the industry. People still call it the Harvard of the Sky.”

Harvard of the Sky. What was ERAU's flying clubs latin motto again?

-LAFF

Slice

I'd rather go to the Florida State or ASU of the sky...unless one thinks hot college chicks and booze are over-rated.

Uncle Bose

LAFF, you nearly cost me a laptop. I came to my senses with my fist about six inches from the screen...next time I might not be so lucky. A pox on the Ministry of Propaganda, I say!

--ATEV OCPAVOTS APIGTEUIV!!!-- It's Latin...wait, it's Greek...wait, it's gibberish, for "Always in the Sky Excel, young Jedi, mmm...yes."

If you look at their home page, they've changed it to Aien Ouranos Aristeuein, which Tom Goodman recommended as a more accurate translation. However, the old motto remains on every other page, which is even funnier.

LAfrequentflyer

Close call with your laptop. I'm sure if you had destroyed it you would have shrugged your shoulders and said, "no regrets!"

That reminds me I need to do my weekly re-read of the key loan / flight training loan threads...

-LAFF

AVIVIII

ERAU is overrated, a waste of time and money. Never went there but I worked at Epic Aviation at New Smyrna for a while and I couldn't believe the raping that these guys were getting....

And trust me, there are way hotter girls than those found at DAB....

palgia841

That is the most absurd statement I've ever read. Certainly an ERAU degree CAN help, but I doubt "it's done" (although the recruiting at regionals seems to substantiate the above statement).

Having said that, ERAU has a great program, first-quality professors and a solid flight program. The problem is in the quality of the students. Garbage in = garbage out applies to universities too. Their only selection criteria is affordability.

ERAU students are offered the opportunity to learn an enormous amount of knowledge, making them potentially more knowledgeable out of college than most captains at any airline who have a non-aviation degree. I am not exaggerating when I say this. They have countless resources available to them, as well as the very best instructors. How many students truly take advantage of these opportunities? Virtually none! (maybe 2-3%)
The majority strolls alongs absorbing little of what is taught.



"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do."

-Norman Juster

Slice

I'll take the non-aviation major captain any day. There's no substitute for flying experience. Book knowledge will only get you so far...

Uncle Bose

Slice is right that experience beats book knowledge, but I'd also say that there's no point in paying so much for book knowledge that you don't actually need. Anyone with drive can study aviation on their own. Let's face it--the material isn't exactly theoretical physics.

Puppyz

HAHAHAHAHAH o damn

de727ups

"ERAU students are offered the opportunity to learn an enormous amount of knowledge, making them potentially more knowledgeable out of college than most captains at any airline who have a non-aviation degree. I am not exaggerating when I say this"

I went to Riddle. I'll be nice and simply say you have no idea what you're talking about.