Caleb172

Hey, I'm a senior in high school and I'm looking at colleges that I'll hopefully be able to enter the regionals after, to try to make a career out of it. (I know I will have to meet the ATP requirements) I was wondering if anyone had any insight to the colleges in this area. I looked at Bridgewater in Massachusetts the other day but I wasn't pleased that they don't have a course for the multi-engine rating within in the school. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks,
Caleb

Death2Daleks

New England is really a disaster for weather, I think that's why you find so few schools there. If you find a college/flight school combo with multi-engine training there, please let me know, because I'd love to CFI for them!

PotatoChip

Daniel Webster is the big one. However, you won't jump right into the regionals out of any college. Expect at least a year or more after graduation depending on how many flight hours you accumulate. By the time you're done all regionals will require 1500 hours, and that's two year worth of flying after college.

PRS Guitars

Caleb,

Go to a traditional four year college and enjoy it. Do your flight training on the side and get a degree in something useful (engineering, IT, etc). Then maybe your last two years or so CFI on the side. After you graduate, keep building hours or I recommend joining the AF reserves or Guard. There are lots of units in New England (fighters and Heavy).

badflaps

The school is the most important consideration, multi training deals are every where. You could get one on spring break in Fla.

Timbo

I did my freshman year there (1977), and it was a huge rip off, both time and money wise. They wanted you to spend a fortune and get 'extra hours' before they'd sign you off for checkrides, and you had to pay for ground school/briefing time, and they were charging well above the mom'n pop FBO rates for their C150's.

I transferred to the state college (UNH) where tuition was 75% cheaper, and I could live at home (17 miles from campus) and spent my hard earned money on flying lessons at the local Mom'n Pop FBO, who charged about 2/3 of what DW was charging.

I missed a lot of the on campus fun at UNH, no doubt, because I was working a lot, flying a lot and living at home, but I'd have been a dropout (or dead!) if I had stayed on campus!

At that time, UNH held the record for beer consumption per student! (drinking age was 18)

PotatoChip

No surprise that DW exploits the would-be pilot. Shame.
I am of the 4 yr, useful degree mindset as well.

Flyboyxc91

Do yourself a favor and get a REAL college degree outside of aviation. I'm just really saying get a degree outside aviation unless it's engineering because there won't be much opportunity elsewhere besides a cockpit. Besides, it'll ultimately be cheaper 90% of the time and just an assumption, you have to be 23 to get to a regional (any 121 Airline) now and you won't be there most likely until after your Four year Bachelors degree anyway. I graduated college with a Biology degree and got a lot of decent job offers but decided to go flying! I'll have all my ratings by February and hopefully be hired on a regional a bit over a year later just after 24 probably. Good Luck

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