Comair/Delta Connection Academy???

[Airtower]

i had read a post and someone had mentioned it. What and how and how much to get in and get this training. i had heard long ago that you pay for your training and then get hired if you pass? any of this true?


thanks

 

[blott]

LOL..you pay for your training, flight instruct for a year or so(if they hire you as an instructor) then you get an "interview" with a conection airline...

B

 

[Skull-One]

I'm with Blott (full disclosure: we were classmates at Comair and work[ed] for the same airline). Comair is a good school, but you can have the exact same quality of training at Air Orlando for about half the price. Most of their instructors are Comair-trained and very good.

Do the Cramair groundschools perhaps, but don't do your flight training there. Definitely don't instruct there. You can make two to five times more money just about anywhere else. Call Wright Flyers in San Antonio and get a CFI job there where you can actually make a living...

 

[BankAccount=0$]

I'm with Blott (full disclosure: we were classmates at Comair and work[ed] for the same airline). Comair is a good school, but you can have the exact same quality of training at Air Orlando for about half the price. Most of their instructors are Comair-trained and very good.

I was a classmate of Skull-One's (and apparently Blott's as well)down in Sanford. Skully is right on in his assement of the "Academy". Pay alot, jump through the hoops, and there is still no guarantee of a job, and not even an interview if you're not hired as an instructor there. The system works for those that go through the whole program and get hired on to instruct.

Personally I tend to think there is a lot more to flying than what can be experienced under the umbrella of the "Academy's" control. What I've learned out in the real world instructing and flying corporate is far and away more valuable than flying 1000 hours in florida at the "Academy"would have ever allowed.

And as a full disclosure, I left Comair Academy after I got my Comm. Multi ticket. I didn't go down there for the airline interview, and had no desire to work thereright from the start. It just came down to the fact that Flight Safety made you wear a uniform, and Comair didn't and that's why I choose them.

 

[megreene]

Also as a classmate of Blott (et.al.) I can only say the the Academy has good and bad points. It is very costly, buy efficient. If you do the whole program, yes you do still have to interview for both the instructor and airline position. However, having done the entire thing, you are more than prepared. But, it is a very limited, safe environment for flying. Everything is outlined for you, where to go, what to say, what airports you can and cannot land at...you get the point. However, it is possible to come out of the academy having never actually landed at a grass strip, or having flown a low wing a/c...etc. Go down there and visit, you will get a good idea of the school.


BTW, Blott, did you ever hear back from Comair about your interview yet, from like, years ago?

Eric

 

[ShyFlyGuy]

I started in the Instrument course at Comair through my CFII and it cost me $70,000 (add $5000-8000 for private). I lived in the ghetto (and boy do they have one) in Sanford. I took out way too much money for the school and was a pushover the whole time there. I could have gotten through there on about $55,000-$60,000 from Instrument-CFII. Had really good times and left for greener pastures in SFO/SJC area making $35-40/hr flight instructing. I'm going to venture to say that if you want to have your hand held right into the right seat of an RJ (and that's not necessarily a bad thing), Comair is a great place for that (albeit expensive).

Then again, look at me now... I graduated Comair in 2000 and still flying night cargo. Ouch. I'm feeling the hurt of student loans at the clip of $675/mo. If you do Comair, go all the way. My classmates are all Capts on RJs at NW Airlink and Comair. D'oh!