roll tide!!
don't waste your time or money. get your ratings on your own, and a get a degree in something other than aviation. bottom line, when you graduate, you'll be qualified to be a ..... drum roll.......... flight instructor!!!! the school owns a citation, at least one king air, and had purchased/aquired a dc-10 sim some years ago. you'd think that a school that owns some advanced equipment would be able to crank out graduates with some respectable credentials. but at last check the sim was in a warehouse, and they were advertising outside of the school for a citation sic. another negative, at least a few years ago, was what appeared to be a lack of coordination between the flight school (at the airport), and the university. the command structure was never clear to me. unity of command is one of the key principles of generalship, and at the time, neither col. johnson or ms. paulk displayed a visible command of this concept.
another thing that sucked is that the aviation management program was under the authority of the school of engineering. this may have changed in recent years. if so, i always thought that aviation/airline/transportation management was better suited to the business school.
on the plus side, auburn is a nice town, and a fun place to live, and is full of good looking women. all i can say is that they do it right in alabama. i guess a certain amount of inbreeding has positive side-effects. just kidding. seriously, after two years there, i had an instrument rating and 50 hours in my log book that i didn't have when i showed up. a year after leaving, i was a cfii/me with almost a thousand hours, just working with my home town fbo. i finished my degree last year with the erau dl program, and now am flying for a company that owns several piston twins. i am not yet an airline captain, but i feel like i am closer to my long range goals now, than i would be had i stayed with the babes in auburn. just my .02 worth.
lamont
