Alternate career path

[bobbysamd]

"Exception" kool-aid

There's an exception to every rule, but to use that as an example of how to get ahead in general is painting a false picture.

Arguing exception. My point, exactly.

 

[TheDogsBollocks]

So, now, an aviation degree, along with women's studies, is not a "real" degree?? Baloney, Yip. Any degree, as long as it comes from an accredited college, is a "real" degree. I'll bet your house is always freshly-pained and your lawn freshly-mowed. The point being is there is no shortage of aspirees trying this strategy. There are only so many houses to be painted and lawns to be mowed in exchange for flight time. I'd be careful about giving/receiving this kind of advice. The time may not be legally loggable. Insurance requirements may preclude "riders." Moreover, these opportunities, in reality, are few and far between.You don't know that for sure, because dozens of others try the same strategy. What about the other jobs in which more education than high school is being sought? Without that education, those folks are SOL. Moreover, how many companies will hire some 19-year-old with a thousand hours to drive around its turbine airplane. Not many.That is the key. Nothing is guaranteed. Aviation has turned out to be a dead-end for so many people. Better to have credentials, so as to improve one's chances.

I had numerous colleagues at ERAU who earned their Aeronautical Science degree there, were hired as instructors after they graduated, only instructed, and were hired by the regionals almost as soon as they hit 1500-2000 hours with the appropriate amount of multi. By the way, Yip, they were hired with instructing time only and not "TJPIC." Did I not mention that the four-year degree came in the package. Substitute Purdue, U.N.D., Southeast Oklahoma State U., etc., for ERAU and the story is the same.

Or else, MAPD. I don't care especially for Mesa as a company, but the program works and you don't have to stay there forever. It potentially gets one into the right seat of TJ equipment at 300 hours. An A.S. degree is part of that program. You can move on as soon as you build enough Part 121 "TJPIC" appropriate to your next job.

Seem you have an answer for everything-so sanctimonious.

Yip has a point regarding real degrees. A law, medical, engineering, physics and chemistry degrees for example definitely are more useful and hold a greater credibility in overall job marketability. Notice that airlines don't care what your major is in your degree. Pilots holding degrees I've just described will always have more options outside the aviation profession than the holder of degrees in aviation tech, womens studies, etc, etc!

I'm sure if I surfed the internet I can get a degree in bulls**t!

 

[pilotyip]

Exactly Dogs, at least someone is getting it.

 

[bobbysamd]

Sanctimony

Seem you have an answer for everything-so sanctimonious.

There is no sanctimony. Just fact. Any degree, as long as it's from an accredited college, has value for the simple reason that with one anyone can apply for any job that states, "college degree preferred or required," viz:

Notice that airlines don't care what your major is in your degree.!

 

[qmaster3]

There is no sanctimony. Just fact. Any degree, as long as it's from an accredited college, has value for the simple reason that with one anyone can apply for any job that states, "college degree preferred or required," viz:

Some more than others.

 

[pilotyip]

Again preferred means "We would like you to have one, but not required” Superior skills, desire and a great personality will overcome the check in the preferred column. Do me a favor Bobby list all the airlines currently hiring that make the possession of 4-yr degree a show stopper, I will help you out
UPS and FedEx.

 

[bobbysamd]

"Preferred"

Again preferred means "We would like you to have one, but not required” Superior skills, desire and a great personality will overcome the check in the preferred column.

"Preferred," in this context, really means you d@mn well better have one or you might not be called. With the degree, your chances of being called improve. If you are not called, you won't be given the opportunity to exhibit your "superior skills, desire and great personality," and, thus, be able to overcome the checkmark. I know it well; I've been there. Go see my other posts.

 

[pilotyip]

I see non-degreed guys being called for interviews at good places to work all the time and most of the time they get hired, How come these non-degreed guys got hired in front of you? Because they have proved themselves logging Part 121 TJ PIC and you did not have those cerdentials so in spite of having a degree you could not get hired.

 

[coolyokeluke]

And WTF does having to graduate high school on time have anything with being a professional pilot. Nothing I have learned in highschool has helped me with anything to do with flying.

I'm sorry about your grandmother.

I instucted a 17 year old girl who was a high school dropout. She had huge gaps in her knowlege of math and physical science that made teaching her very labor intensive for me, expensive and difficult for her. If nothing you've learned in high school has helped you with your flying your education is sorely lacking. Your career as a pilot will suffer, or the road to fly bigger and faster equipment for more pay will take longer. You got a lucky break getting to fly an aircraft your father bought; good for you I'm envious. But it will only carry you so far.

 

[bobbysamd]

Because they have proved themselves logging Part 121 TJ PIC and you did not have those cerdentials so in spite of having a degree you could not get hired.

That is baloney, Yip, and you know it. Either that, or you know nothing about regional airline hiring.

I was a flight instructor at ERAU in the late '80s-early '90s. Most of my colleagues were ERAU graduates. They were all flight instructors, just like me. I will repeat: college graduates. As they hit times, mostly regional airlines and a couple of freight picked them up. Their only professional experience was as flight instructors. Not one had "TJPIC." Not one. Not even Part 135 experience. In fact, we had one instructor, hired from the outside, just like me, who, in fact had freight and 135 ditch tours experience. Very well qualified and sharp gal. She could not gain any interest from the regionals. So much for your "TJPIC" theory.