UnlimitedAkro

There isnt one for the flight school i was an assist chief at either. Thats because its a flight school. You get licenses there.

de727ups

"I think there is a reason 25% of the commercial pilots out there went to ERAU"

I was duped. As were many others.

back in 52'

haha! you know what's really funny? go to google and search "embry riddle sucks" and this site comes up. UnlimitedAcro, I think every school is probably better than UND, at least that's what i've been hearing a lot more often from students who went there. They've also mentioned to me that alot of the bad things on this university of north dakota aviation site were actually true, which kind of gives me the chills...

UnlimitedAkro

yeah, but from what people hear on this message board about ERAU, they would say the same thing....that it's crappy!!

truth is, ERAU provides alot of resources to its students. And the education is actually good. Most of the professors are excellent (i had 2 naval top gun professors as well as many other notables).

Now the flight training dept is a slightly different story, i wont argue with you there.... but the university side was actually good from my perspective.

It is funny however to hear the crappy things other people say when they havent even been to the school.... HEARSAY!!!!

LAfrequentflyer

2 top guns teaching your class - WOW...

I bet you got your $$$ worth when they too a whole semester to explain how a flight computer works!

-LAFF

NE_Pilot

You sure do bash ERAU a lot, especially for someone who has never attended ERAU, and a lot of praising of ATP, for some who has yet to attend their program. You hold these high and mighty judgements, it seems, because the internet told you so. You are the person UnlimitedAkro is speaking of, someone who relies purely on hearsay.

Neither place is perfect, and neither place is as bad, or good even, as people make it out to be. Much of that will depend on how well you mesh with either operation.

Now I haven't gone to ERAU, but I have enough common sense to see that there are a few who went to ERAU and had a bad expeirence, and as such they feel compelled to come onto forums and preach (some more than others obviously)., and that these people represent a very small percentage of ERAU students. In my personal experience I have only meet 6 ERAU alumni (different graduation dates), and not one of them regretted going there, they had complaints here and there, but overall they said they enjoyed it.

Now if the feeling of being "ripped-off" and the feeling of "regret" was so prevelant, I think it is odd that not a single one of them mentioned any of that. Now there is always the chance that these 6 alumni are the minority, but for me to randomely meet 6 people who all hold feelings that only a small percentage of the alumni felt, those chances are a bit slim.

So what I concluded from that was that this feeling people on the internet talk about is not prevelant, and is in the minority. You got to take what you read on the internet with a grain of salt, because you don't know who these people are, and if they are who they say they are.

LAfrequentflyer

Did those 6 have any good 'Mig Alley' stories to share?

-LAFF

de727ups

"It is funny however to hear the crappy things other people say when they havent even been to the school.... HEARSAY!!!!"

Class of 1983.

UnlimitedAkro

real mature. i guess i missed the semester of flight computers....

but i did take advantage of the CRM seminars. I also got paid by NASA to participate in an avionics test program for new GPS displays. I did spend alot of time looking at the multiple jet engine cutaways riddle has so i could understand every stage and how every piece works. I did get alot out of a semester of 747 systems taught by a 20+ year 744 capt.... it def. makes things really easy the first time you take initial training/ground school in any jet.

I dont regret for a second going to ERAU, and I still have not met one person on the line who has given me crap about it....

again..... like i said before, its your additude. its not where you went to school that makes you a bad person.

CaptainMark

ouch!!!!!!!! a true beatdown...