GreatLakesWings
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Hi Everyone,
This past few days my friend and I have visited the Delta Connection Academy in Florida. We were flown out there for free on standby tickets in order to check out the facility.
We took our tour yesterday, and have mixed feelings both good and bad about the facility. It was a lot of salesman talk and we did not get a big chance to talk to some of the current students or instructors.
There were both good things and bad things as I have mentioned. One good thing (if it is really true) is that they give you a very good chance of flying first officer after instructing with them for 800 hours (ground and flight) and having 100 multi and 1000 total time. I have heard from a few of my pilots on the way flying back that it was a pretty good place to go from what they heard.
Some of the bad things is that they put you in a contract to instruct for 800 hours (ground and flight combined) for $10 bucks/hour. Also another bad thing that they demonstrated was something along the lines of "our school is the best, and other schools don't do it right...we do" which seemed like a bad attitude from the start because I currently attend Western Michigan University for flight science and I am very satisfied and fullfilled by most of my lessons there.
BOTTOM LINE: what i am looking for is someone who may have some input on this whole situation. OR if someone has actually gone though this program how everything went while attending.
I am currently working on my instrument right now at WMU and will be finishing with my multi commerical rating.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
John
This past few days my friend and I have visited the Delta Connection Academy in Florida. We were flown out there for free on standby tickets in order to check out the facility.
We took our tour yesterday, and have mixed feelings both good and bad about the facility. It was a lot of salesman talk and we did not get a big chance to talk to some of the current students or instructors.
There were both good things and bad things as I have mentioned. One good thing (if it is really true) is that they give you a very good chance of flying first officer after instructing with them for 800 hours (ground and flight) and having 100 multi and 1000 total time. I have heard from a few of my pilots on the way flying back that it was a pretty good place to go from what they heard.
Some of the bad things is that they put you in a contract to instruct for 800 hours (ground and flight combined) for $10 bucks/hour. Also another bad thing that they demonstrated was something along the lines of "our school is the best, and other schools don't do it right...we do" which seemed like a bad attitude from the start because I currently attend Western Michigan University for flight science and I am very satisfied and fullfilled by most of my lessons there.
BOTTOM LINE: what i am looking for is someone who may have some input on this whole situation. OR if someone has actually gone though this program how everything went while attending.
I am currently working on my instrument right now at WMU and will be finishing with my multi commerical rating.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
John