View Poll Results: What is the best way to get training?
ERAU, UND, or another aviation degree and flight training program
10
27.03%
Train at an FBO and get a non aviation degree
19
51.35%
All ATP and a four year non aviation degree
7
18.92%
Don't fly for a living! (for SkyHigh)
1
2.70%
Voters: 37. You may not vote on this poll
Best way to learn
#1
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Best way to learn
What do you think is the best way to get training? Assume that you want to fly for a major airline.
ALLATP? ERAU? Local college and FBO?
ALLATP? ERAU? Local college and FBO?
#3
I voted the first one because I chose a non-aviation degree but I am able to take flight classes at my school (University of Illinois). I think number one fits best because kids generally fly at school and study the aviation oriented degree
#4
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Its a good deal - I do recommend someone with the GI Bill get a degree and not spend the money on flight training. IMHO, a 4 year degree is a better use for GI benefits.
-LAFF
Its a good deal - I do recommend someone with the GI Bill get a degree and not spend the money on flight training. IMHO, a 4 year degree is a better use for GI benefits.
-LAFF
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I think "best way to learn" and "best thing to do" are not necessarily the same. Spending four years and $160K at ERAU immersed in aviation-related subject matter and surrounded by one-dimensional airplane dorks may be the best way to learn aviation (for the sake of argument), but (1) that's not required for success as a pilot, (2) only medical and law degrees from top-ranked schools are actually worth that much, and (3) there's more to life than aviation.
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I think "best way to learn" and "best thing to do" are not necessarily the same. Spending four years and $160K at ERAU immersed in aviation-related subject matter and surrounded by one-dimensional airplane dorks may be the best way to learn aviation (for the sake of argument), but (1) that's not required for success as a pilot, (2) only medical and law degrees from top-ranked schools are actually worth that much, and (3) there's more to life than aviation.
#8
If I had the chance to do it all over again, I would do the 2yr or 4yr degree non-aviation degree, then go to ALLATP.
When it's all said and done, I'll be a half-breed according to this survey. ERAU (non-flying degree...class of '87) & future ATP grad.
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When it's all said and done, I'll be a half-breed according to this survey. ERAU (non-flying degree...class of '87) & future ATP grad.
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P.S.- LAFF, love that new avatar.
#10
I went to Baylor to get my degree in Aviation Sciences. At first it seemed like a great idea. On my refrigerator at home there was a clipping on it from the Houston Cronicle showing the best professions to get into. Aviation was on it. So I did it. Then in my sophmore year 9/11 hit. Pilots were being laid off. Airliners grounded. Flights were suspended at local airports ect. This ended up giving me a nice break exactly when I didn't need it, right before my checkride for PPL.
Now the reasons I went for my degree didn't matter. I was coming out of High school and just thought maybe if I had X hrs and so did the other guy my degree would make the difference in allowing me to be hired. I have no idea what it was like then, I could have been right, but now I know I was wrong in assuming so. After 9/11 I was hit with the big reality and I had no other options available to me. I didn't diversify myself. I couldn't be an accountant, or engineer, or teacher. I was stuck in aviation. An industry that was kicking people to the curb by the thousands. If I could do it all over again I'd get my degree in business. I would have then but I already had 45hrs of credit at a private university and I would have lost it all if I changed majors. I couldn't have afforded to start over. I still find it amazing that after all the time and money spent. After all my parents saved up for me to go to college. After I sold my stocks I had invested into when I was a freshman. The money I had saved up working for ABC and Dell. The days before I graduated when I picked-up my CFI rating I had to put $300 on my discover to pay for it. $103 thousand later and $300 had to go on the card. Quite awesome really.
Now the reasons I went for my degree didn't matter. I was coming out of High school and just thought maybe if I had X hrs and so did the other guy my degree would make the difference in allowing me to be hired. I have no idea what it was like then, I could have been right, but now I know I was wrong in assuming so. After 9/11 I was hit with the big reality and I had no other options available to me. I didn't diversify myself. I couldn't be an accountant, or engineer, or teacher. I was stuck in aviation. An industry that was kicking people to the curb by the thousands. If I could do it all over again I'd get my degree in business. I would have then but I already had 45hrs of credit at a private university and I would have lost it all if I changed majors. I couldn't have afforded to start over. I still find it amazing that after all the time and money spent. After all my parents saved up for me to go to college. After I sold my stocks I had invested into when I was a freshman. The money I had saved up working for ABC and Dell. The days before I graduated when I picked-up my CFI rating I had to put $300 on my discover to pay for it. $103 thousand later and $300 had to go on the card. Quite awesome really.
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