Originally Posted by
Flightguy02
Thanks for your reply.
I did see also Florida institute of Technology it looked interesting. Why you say that is better than ERAU?
Why Embry Riddle is one under performing school? You mean about flight or about university?
Why you said to forget L3? You mean L3 flight academy (old name CTC)?
Are you spending your own money, or are you spending your parents money.
Did your parents make it the hard way, by earning it?
If so, you have a duty to honor your parents and their hard work by spending their money wisely.
Just wasting money on a big name school, and expecting something in return is being foolish.
If you just want to be a pilot. Then pilots fly aircraft. Just go ahead and start doing it.
It’s a long road to airline pilot. The early stages, do not matter that much. There will be plenty of time later on to ‘man up’, and pay for a type rating. But you can’t do that if you spent all your money on pipe dreams spun by the big name schools.
Embry Riddle is The Pied Piper of American colleges.
Many people leave after the first semester, once they figure out it’s not called Embry Ripoff for nothing.
They have nothing extra special to offer except a name.
Everyone has their angle.
For Purdue it’s Jet time and Cirrus SR20s.
Glass cockpit, glass cockpit they repeat over and over.
I feel gimmicks like that are just another way of separating the parents from their money.
But every one does it.
Education is big business.
Places like FIT offer B737/A320 type ratings as a part of their degree.
You can do EASA training with them at the same time.
Probably the best in the world.
But it’s not cheap.
If you want a degree and a EASA (f)ATPL, and you want to spend some time in Florida with FIT.
Then look into University of London Kingston program. It’s both thru BCFT and FIT.
I have looked at a lot of American aviation colleges.
I have visited Purdue in West Lafayette Indiana.
Southern Illinois in Carbondale Illinois.
Illinois University in Champagne Illinois
Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro Tennessee.
Daniel Webster in Nashua New Hampshire.
Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach Florida.
Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne Florida.
Auburn University in Auburn Alabama.
From these colleges, there are some I would go to for aviation based programs.
There are many I have no interest in going to at all.
Like you said, even though North Dakota is one of the better universities.
Why would anyone want to go there.
I feel that a four year professional pilot degree is a waste of time, effort and money from ANY school.
When for a whole lot less of each, you can just go to a good Pt 141 school and do it all in less than a year.
That’s the good and bad of the US.
And the good isn’t just good, it’s brilliant.
Now over to the U.K. and Europe where the giant Ponzi scheme plays out over at L3 (CTC), OAA and FTE.
L3 (formally Aerosim) at Sanford Florida is mainly for Air China and Hainan Taiwan Airlines students.
There are many good schools in Europe to finish off once you have your 175 hours.
Some can be completed for around €20,000.
Others are more like £25,000.