Useless Aviation Degrees
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
Age: 40
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Support for Degrees
To all those pilots, or wannabees, who shun degrees or the like and believe that because most current airline captains have trained the 'traditional' way that this must be the most effective - wake up!!
Welcome to the aviation industry. An industry subject to the most dramatic upsets over any negative trend in the world economy! Every month at least one significant airline is force to reduce staff numbers, and although they may recover, it might take many months or years. What would you do in that time. Now, there is nothing I would rather do than fly for an airline, but when the crunch comes, an income is an income.
Also, every major airline in North America requires a college/university degree as a pre-req, without it you don't have a chance and you have abandoned the chance to fly within the largest aviation region in the world, and in this industry every chance counts. If the US did it yeaterday, the rest of the world will do it tomorrow.
I respect all pilots for their relentless efforts to fulfil a dream, regardless of training, private or university, 13months or 3 / 4 years. Everyone has their reasons, learn from others success and pass your knowledge along, rather than knock.
pilot4life
Welcome to the aviation industry. An industry subject to the most dramatic upsets over any negative trend in the world economy! Every month at least one significant airline is force to reduce staff numbers, and although they may recover, it might take many months or years. What would you do in that time. Now, there is nothing I would rather do than fly for an airline, but when the crunch comes, an income is an income.
Also, every major airline in North America requires a college/university degree as a pre-req, without it you don't have a chance and you have abandoned the chance to fly within the largest aviation region in the world, and in this industry every chance counts. If the US did it yeaterday, the rest of the world will do it tomorrow.
I respect all pilots for their relentless efforts to fulfil a dream, regardless of training, private or university, 13months or 3 / 4 years. Everyone has their reasons, learn from others success and pass your knowledge along, rather than knock.
pilot4life
