Riddle CAPT Program - Joke!

[100LL... Again!]

The ultimate proof that the academic world is utterly divorced from reality.


From the a link to the Riddle website from the CAPT is crap site.

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What makes the CAPT program unique?

Our graduates earn an FAA certified Captain's type rating in a Boeing MD-90 Transport Jetliner, which validates airline employability and exceeds industry standards.

Each training flight is video taped and analyzed by the class and crew (piston and jet flights). This analysis enhances situational awareness, crew resource management and teamwork, skill areas that the airlines insist are lacking in pilots hired from traditional flight schools.

We train our students to analyze their own flights as part of their airline preparation class. This is a technique that demonstrates to a prospective employer that a CAPT program graduate is head and shoulders above pilots trained at traditional flight schools. Imagine the reaction at your airline interview when you present a video on your laptop that illustrates how you identified and mitigated the consequences of a situation in the cockpit.

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A captain's type rating??? They are apparently very aware that they are talking to VERY uninformed foks.


Get the last part: Imagine the reaction at your airline interview...

Imagine indeed.

Interviewer: "Uhh - security to the interview room please."

CAPT Applicant: "Wait! Just wait! Look at this video of my superior command decision in the sim! Stop. Let me go! Listen to meeee...



Can you imagine the sugarplum fantasies dancing in the heads of the idiots who fall for this sh-t?

Someone over at Riddle has earned a btch-slap of the first order.


Check out this link for more fun:

http://www.erau.edu/omni/sp/dbcapt/faq.html

 

[de727ups]

ERAU

I honestly can't believe ERAU is supporting this stuff....blows my mind.

 

[plunger]

sounds like a load of crap to me. i have met a few instructors from riddles regular flight program and they were all extremely sharp. they must have excellent ground schools because their technical knowledge was far superior to many other instructors i've met. including myself. why the hell you'd want a type in an MD-90 is beyond me. there aren't that many of those in service anymore are there? not to mention you only have a few hundred hours and no cfi certs.

 

[SDCFI]

Here's the way I see it: Capitalism at its finest. ERAU knows that there are plenty of suckers...I mean students willing to pay an enormous amount of money for a useless piece of paper. It may not be ethical, but it's the American way.

 

[I.P. Freley]

Perhaps I'm missing something...

... but to get a "captain's type rating" in an MD-90, don't you have to possess an ATP certificate?

How are you getting the ATP with a third of the required hours that the certificate mins. stipulate?

 

[Bandit60]

I have flown with many riddle grads and they are good guys but I dont think they are above the rest. This is just another example how certain flight schools prey on students. A 500 hr type rated md 80 pilot is worthless when he or she is ready to fly in the real world. (how much actually weather experience do they have and how much high altitude experience do they really have to make good sound decisions).

The poor student will be paying off students loans forever, seeing as if the pay scale will never be what it used to be.

This whole thing makes me agree not at the riddle grads but the brainwashing the university does to that student.

 

[SDCFI]

Re: Perhaps I'm missing something...

... but to get a "captain's type rating" in an MD-90, don't you have to possess an ATP certificate?

How are you getting the ATP with a third of the required hours that the certificate mins. stipulate?

You don't need an ATP to get a type rating, but what good is one with 400 hours? These schools are trying to sell people the idea that a few hours in a jet sim and a systems class somehow make you an instant airline captain. An airline Captain is made from years of experience dealing with wx, maint, ATC, etc etc etc. Any idiot can be taught how to fly an MD-90, the real pilots are the ones with the knowledge and experience to operate a transport category aircraft in the "real world". Unfortunately the real world and the "Riddle world" do not coexist.

 

[g-girl]

This program is not the greatest, but there is always the FlightSafety/ASA buy-a-job program. That is worse than Pay For Time places like Tab Express. You flat out buy a job for 27,000 grand handed over to Flight Safety.

Oh, I forgott, you have to "interview" for the program. Only for $$$$ lucky people selected each month.

 

[plunger]

if i was going to buy a job, i'd do it flight safety before i'd do this riddle crap. there is a lot more certainty with the fsi gig. i think it's all pretty ridiculous. i heard fsi is selling like 10 jobs/month for eagle. flight safety is supposed to be the top notch flight school but they have PFT programs just like everyone else.

 

[Ace757]

Eagle is taking 20 a month, and ASA is taking initially 8, and then2 a month for the rest of the year. And the last poster is wrong about eryone who applies for it is hired. ASA interviewed 20 last year for this program and only ened up taking 4. You go through the same exact interview that people off the street get. the only difference is that the minimus are waived if you pass the interview. My point is that while this may be PFT/PFJ, they are very selective on who they pick. And no im not going throug the program right now, but i am a cime grad at FSI.

 

[plunger]

if your talking about me, i never said they hire anyone who applies. i'm sure the selection process is extremely difficult and only the cream of the crop are chosen. BUT, regardless, your buying your job if your are chosen. this is no different than any other pft operation out there. i'm not pro-pft or pro -gulfstream by any stretch but i think if people are going to go on these boards and rag on gulfscream or tab, they also need to include the other places that do the same thing thats all.

 

[100LL... Again!]

What this really amounts to is buying your own economic 'Darwin Award'.

Maybe we should start awarding this to suckers that blow their whole wad of cash on certificates and training that make them COMPLETELY non-competitive.

Their excessive use of the word "captain" on this page is evidence that this is pandeering to student egos/fantasies.

 

[T-Gates]

What the hell good will a DC-9 type do you at 400 hours?! Plus, that MD-90 sim they have is the same one that used to be at FSB Long Beach. It has a flight deck in it unique to the Saudi Arabian Airlines fleet. The avionics suite is the same as the 717/MD-11, but the autopilot panel and systems are straight MD-80. Those guys, even if they fly an MD-90 later on will never see that same setup....EVER! Also, when they get that type on thier commercial, there will be a limitation on there saying "This Rating Subject to the Pilot In Command Limitations of Part 61.XX" (Cant remember exactly) Basically stipulating that the rating means jack shiznit until you do 25 hours of IOE with a unrestricted type-rated captain.

WTF?!?!

 

[350DRIVER]

T, I agree completely.. Amazing the propaganda that some buy into when they get the information no matter how unrealistic things appear to be for most that have the knowledge.

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