Aviation degree
01-31-2007, 09:45 AM
#51
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A year ago I got my 4 yr degree in electrical engineering with a minor in management. No regrets.... however majoring in aerospace engineering (which was actually offered at my school - UC Irvine) probally would suit me better for a pilot career. Yet major in any kind of engineering and it will help you do ANYTHING. It teaches you how to think, and why stuff works the way it does. These skills can be used in any industry and a job will not be hard to find. For me I sleep well at night knowing if becoming an airline pilot doesn't work out then I have a stable second career and skills to fall back on. You carry your education with you for life so take it serious.
Major or minor in something that you can make a living in to support a family. I think of any sort of science/engineering, computer sci., or business (accounting).
Flying is my passion and is #1, Engineering is my realistic back-up and is #2.
Major or minor in something that you can make a living in to support a family. I think of any sort of science/engineering, computer sci., or business (accounting).
Flying is my passion and is #1, Engineering is my realistic back-up and is #2.
01-31-2007, 10:45 PM
#52
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Originally Posted by Engineer Pilot
A year ago I got my 4 yr degree in electrical engineering with a minor in management. No regrets.... however majoring in aerospace engineering (which was actually offered at my school - UC Irvine) probally would suit me better for a pilot career. Yet major in any kind of engineering and it will help you do ANYTHING. It teaches you how to think, and why stuff works the way it does. These skills can be used in any industry and a job will not be hard to find. For me I sleep well at night knowing if becoming an airline pilot doesn't work out then I have a stable second career and skills to fall back on. You carry your education with you for life so take it serious.
Major or minor in something that you can make a living in to support a family. I think of any sort of science/engineering, computer sci., or business (accounting).
Flying is my passion and is #1, Engineering is my realistic back-up and is #2.
Major or minor in something that you can make a living in to support a family. I think of any sort of science/engineering, computer sci., or business (accounting).
Flying is my passion and is #1, Engineering is my realistic back-up and is #2.
02-01-2007, 07:33 PM
#53
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Originally Posted by HoboPilot
Tuiton ($13,000 for the first year)+(4x5,000)=$33,000
Room and Board ($5000 for the first year)+(4x$4000 living at my fraternity)=$21,000
Total Non-flying (normal college) costs:$54,000
Initial Total:$114,000
Scholarship:-$10,000
Total:$104,000
Room and Board ($5000 for the first year)+(4x$4000 living at my fraternity)=$21,000
Total Non-flying (normal college) costs:$54,000
Initial Total:$114,000
Scholarship:-$10,000
Total:$104,000
02-01-2007, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by JMT21
In all honesty, commercial aviation is a complete bull**** degree. It's not challenging and useless other than for filling a line on an application.
02-02-2007, 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Bose
See? All it takes is a little time in a real program to realize what a joke an aviation degree is.
-LAFF
02-02-2007, 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted by LAfrequentflyer
Its good for those long nights on patrol with the local PD. Chances are your partner has one too...At least you can talk about how to use the plotter in an F-86 over Mig Alley...
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I had this neighbor in Daytona...I've mentioned him before...a 32-year-old freshman with Kool Aid dribbling out his ears...we couldn't even be sitting out in front of the apartment drinking beers and shooting the **** without him looking up at a Cessna and pop quizzing us about what its heading was. He also referred to himself as "an aviator."
02-02-2007, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Bose
I don't know, man. I'd rather talk about fashion trends in women's footwear. I've had enough pilot dork conversations forced upon me during my time at ERAU, and one more might just make me want to put the shotgun to good use...
I had this neighbor in Daytona...I've mentioned him before...a 32-year-old freshman with Kool Aid dribbling out his ears...we couldn't even be sitting out in front of the apartment drinking beers and shooting the **** without him looking up at a Cessna and pop quizzing us about what its heading was. He also referred to himself as "an aviator."
I had this neighbor in Daytona...I've mentioned him before...a 32-year-old freshman with Kool Aid dribbling out his ears...we couldn't even be sitting out in front of the apartment drinking beers and shooting the **** without him looking up at a Cessna and pop quizzing us about what its heading was. He also referred to himself as "an aviator."
-LAFF
02-02-2007, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Bose
True.
He was an extreme case, but ERAU, as you'd expect, has quite a number of "those types."
He was an extreme case, but ERAU, as you'd expect, has quite a number of "those types."
-LAFF
02-02-2007, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by JMT21
Which leaves you how far in debt? When I was at the same point in school I still thought UND's aviation program was tits as well. Think if you were going after a non aviation degree...only 54k...hell I'll be making that my first year outta school. Just keep an open mind about things, life is way to short not to.
You neglected the other part of the post, to go to SUNY and get flight training it would cost him:
Flying Costs:250 hoursx$150= $37,500
Flying Costs($37,500) + SUNY Cortland costs ($64,000)= $101,500 total cost
Flying Costs($37,500) + SUNY Cortland costs ($64,000)= $101,500 total cost
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