Transfer out of Riddle?

[mike1mc]

Shoulda come over for some "hooker fishing"

Never caught much but we did quite a bit of bum fishing (always got a bite).

 

[Wings of Flem]

yah i just heard the chief flight instructor talk about it today at a safety meeting. my reaction was HOLY S***!!!!!!!

 

[wrxpilot]

Heres some comedy....the buzz around school today is that someone landed on November and tookoff on Echo yesterday....

Couple that with all the runway incursions (riddle students taxiing across actives)...and everyone is grounded today. I thought it was quiet today when I was up...didn't hear a single Riddle plane in the air....

Hilarious...

That is pretty surprising considering how incursions are such a hot topic w/ the FAA right now. Here's a crazy one for ya though. This happened a few weeks ago here in S. FL:

A student w/ apparently several hundred hours (yes, a PPL student) was apparently sent off from PMP to my FBO in LNA for some additional training. So he heads on over in his 172 (supposedly he owns several planes), and realizes he forgot his charts. Decides to keep on going anyway, and mistakes PBI (Palm Beach International!!) for LNA, a small uncontrolled field. Makes no radio calls, and lands on the taxiway paralleling 9R. Apparently several airliners had to go around and the airspace was shutdown for a bit.

 

[Kawasumi_Kichou]

If you're planning to fly for a major, a BS or BA degree is practically a requirement, unless you have a lot of hours and know someone influential at the target company. It doesn't matter what the degree major is, it only matters that you have the degree.

If the cost of ERAU tuition is too high, and you can't come up with the required scratch, by all means transfer to an inexpensive school and major in something that you like and will find relatively easy. The major doesn't have to be aviation-related.

I sorta had the reverse experience with ERAU. Already had an AAS (in electronics engineering technology) and about 400 hours of 135 flying when ERAU opened a satellite facility here (Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV). Their Pro Aero program was perfect for me and yes it was expensive. At the time I was making very good money in a non-flying career, so the expense wasn't a factor. Even managed to get in some scheduled 135 flying with YR during that summer, resigning at the end of the '92 tour season just before I would have been furloughed, in order to more quickly finish school. Graduated in May 93 after a year and a half of classes.

As it turned out, the ERAU degree didn't help me at all in the flying job chase. I was still just as unhireable after the degree as I was before it, mostly due to my not having enough hours to go with my age. Couldn't get an interview with anyone. So I just continued to work at non-flying jobs, like software engineering at a major aerospace company that insisted on all new-hires having a four-year degree. So at least the degree was good for opening that additional door. Now I'm a part-time classroom instructor in the aviation program at the community college here, finally doing something flying-related again.

 

[The Natural]

Riddle-haters...

I went to a big university and wrestled (Division 1) before I transferred ERAU Prescott where I got a ride to wrestle there. They didnt pay for flight portion so it was still alot of money.

ERAU is expensive, with dorky pilots, rigid standards, and pencil-neck, power tripping, back stabbing a-holes. Guess what? just like the airlines. The training is outstanding, and very tedious. If you can get through it, you can probably get to the airlines. ERAU has its reputation because it caters to the airlines and asks them what they want too see in pilots.

Is an ERAU grad more qualifed than a 1 year C90 Captain? FO? Of course not. We are better prepared out of the gate, and have an extensive networking structure of friends and classmates from then on. Its not rocket science.

Its a great place to come from... GIV Flyer can kiss my a**