Embry Riddle CAPT Program---Anyone know about this???

[Jmmccutc]

wow i just read this entire thread and didn't see one pilotyip comment about a degree being a waste of time and blah blah blah...

 

[bobbysamd]

wow i just read this entire thread and didn't see one pilotyip comment about a degree being a waste of time and blah blah blah...

I believe that a moratorium has been imposed on Yip's anti-degree campaign.

 

[bobbysamd]

Flying as "work"

Then one day it just sort of dawned on me that this was no longer a hobby, but a job--work, not play. I realized that I needed to leave my frustrations at the airport, and get a life outside of airplanes. Once I did this, I started absolutely loving flight instructing, and I have been having a blast ever since. Flying is a demanding and depressing hobby, but it is absolutely the best job in the world. I just had to change my view of flying from play to work.

My first few days of full-time flight instructing did not seem like "work" at all, for the same reasons you gave. Until that time, flying was always a "fun" activity and a sideline. After a while, the "job" aspect of it sunk in, though the fun and enjoyment, and resulting job satisfaction, remained.

I really feel that so many people here lose perspective of piloting as a job and work, with all that a "job" and "work" imply, such as employment and pay - and fair, or unfair, treatment by employers, and everything else that work and workplace imply. Perhaps if such people would associate piloting in the same context of other employment they would be less likely to prostrate and humiliate themselves by way of P-F-T, etc. and act more like people and professionals who expect fair consideration for their jobs and fair treatment thereafter.

 

[Goose Egg]

Perhaps if such people would associate piloting in the same context of other employment they would be less likely to prostrate and humiliate themselves by way of P-F-T, etc. and act more like people and professionals, who expect fair consideration for their jobs and fair treatment thereafter.

Amen to that! And thanks for tying my post back in...

-Goose

 

[LXJ31]

I went to PRC Riddle for two semesters in the early 90's. Beautiful setting, good community, decent education and I made some friends there. Reality set in after I looked at one year's realistic debt load and I knew I couldn't continue there. So I went back down to ASU, popped up on weekends to visit my buddies and hit Whiskey Row.

Embry-Riddle itself is a decent place, but overpriced in my opinion. As far as graduates being perceived as spoiled with a sense of entitlement, I wouldn't say its a higher percentage than any other collegiate institution.

BUT that CAPT program sounds like a load of marketing bullshizzle foisted on a few kids who might actually afford it.

At that level, learn the basics well and go from there.

 

[100LL... Again!]

CAPT:

Financial sodomy masquerading as a hand job. For the price of sex.

 

[bobbysamd]

DCA v. MAPD

was thinking about going to delta connection academy after i graduate college in the spring, but i don't want another $90,000 of debt . . . .

Such a deal.

As opposed to PACE and every aspect of pay-for-interview that it implies, in your case there's nothing wrong at all with going to MAPD's ab initio 141 flight school. The only thing it promises is your ratings and degree from San Juan College - but, as long as you adhere to the program, you will get your Mesa Airlines pilot interview on graduation. As a new college grad, chances are good that you can transfer significant credits to San Juan as electives and just take its aviation courses for your degree. In fact, when I was there, most of the students either had some college or their degrees and were taking only aviation courses.

Cost is about $45K - half of DCA, per your quote. You should consider it if you can handle the debt.

Good luck with wherever and however you choose to train.