ERAU CAPT Program First Grads *caution*

[Dutch]

The only problem I have is the constant assumption that every ERAU alum has a silver spoon up their ass. I don't disagree that the costs are excessive. When you want to fly new aircraft you pay for it, same goes for the new buildings they are putting up. I paid for every penny with scholarships, cash and 25,000 in student loans. 25k for a 4 year degree is not bad. My brother went to a Cal State school and owes more than that. If you work the system you can keep costs down, apply for every scholarship you can and walk in with all your general ed done at a community college. Oh yeah, records will try and claim that you can't transfer in some credits...fight tooth and nail for every single class - the $800 difference per credit is well worth an hours time.

Dutch

PS. don't not apply for a scholarship just because you don't belong to a specific demographic group. I got 2 grand from the 99's over 3 years because they didn't have any women apply and they wanted to give the money away...even if it was to a guy.

 

[100LL... Again!]

On one hand, I feel bad that people throw their hard-earned (in some cases) money away.

On the other hand, I see the attendees of these programs as arrogant. They feel justified in trying to shortcut the process.

Big gamble - big loss potential.

Game over, try again.

 

[standaman]

Well we had Delta Connection Academy yesterday and now we have Embry Riddle today. What flight school shall we go to next.

 

[100LL... Again!]

Go check out the CAPT is crap website and read some of the link to riddle.

They refer to their grads as "Captain". What a hoot!

400 hr "Captains"

If this is not a hand-job from your own school, I don't know what is.

They go on about how they got a low time pilot through a '121' checkride and blather on about how they trained him to have all the command decision making skills, blah, blah as a REAL airline captain.

What a load.

If this guy entertains the slightest idea that he could really command an md-80, then he has proven that it is possible to jerk off while simultaneously receiving a hand job.


Tell you what - any of you that want to, come do some aerobatic training with me in a 150 Aerobat, give me $10,000, and I will sing your praises as being worthy of a Naval Aviator position.

Really. Man! You fly like Yeager!

Cash or charge?

 

[bobbysamd]

Comair v. Riddle P-F-T

Well we had Delta Connection Academy yesterday and now we have Embry Riddle today. What flight school shall we go to next.

DCA only promises that it will provide training leading to Commercial-Instrument-Multi-CFI. Those are tangible credentials that can find a grad work outside of Comair. "The interviews" are the carrot in front of the horse's nose. It takes some doing to get "the interviews," which the recruiters fail to mention.

Compare it with Riddle CAPT. An MD-80 type might be a tangible credential, but will appear hilarious when shown on a 400-hour pilot's resume. The Riddle academics' theory is that someone with an MD-80 type has demonstrated his/her capability to learn lowly RJ systems, which, in their view, make them superior applicants to the ordinary 1500-total-500-multi flight instructor or other pilot. That is baloney. Another case of academics never stepping forth from their ivory towers to experience the real world.

I second 100LL's comments about arrogance.