Aviation Tour
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they'll take you around the campus and the aerospace end of school, tell you about how great all the profs are, show off the altitude chamber, show off all the other great stuff in odegard, brag about how high-tech the whole place is. they'll walk you over to ryan and let you gawk at the sims, then probably clifford and let you ooh and aaah at the ATC simulator. then you'll go out to the airport where they'll walk you out to C ramp and turn on the twin G430s in a warrior, let you oooh and aaaah at that and by then you're so ready to go here that you don't care about anything else.
not that i remember or anything
not that i remember or anything
stuckingfk
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they tell you all the pros and none off the cons like the dorm "food"
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Ladies, and some men, please lay off the cookies and ice cream after every meal at Wilkerson, or wherever it is you eat. Thanks
P.S. You will thank me later
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they tell you all the pros and none off the cons like the dorm "food"
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Ladies, and some men, please lay off the cookies and ice cream after every meal at Wilkerson, or wherever it is you eat. Thanks
P.S. You will thank me later
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Foxcow
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they tell you all the pros and none off the cons like the dorm "food"
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Ladies, and some men, please lay off the cookies and ice cream after every meal at Wilkerson, or wherever it is you eat. Thanks
P.S. You will thank me later
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Luc spent plenty of time on the •ter. Wilky is so sick...
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they tell you all the pros and none off the cons like the dorm "food"
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Ladies, and some men, please lay off the cookies and ice cream after every meal at Wilkerson, or wherever it is you eat. Thanks
P.S. You will thank me later
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Luc spent plenty of time on the •ter. Wilky is so sick...
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the training is good, the aircraft are extremely well-equipped and the maintenance facility is probably the best of its kind in the entire world. seriously. they're that good, and all their record-keeping is spotless. you never have to worry about an airplane getting second-rate mx because of the cost. whatever is busted gets fixed, and planes are hardly ever down.
summer school is cool, and the campus is really beautiful in the summer. they make a lot of effort to make it nice for those people who stick around the extra time. they've made improvents to the student union with an almost-authentic coffee shop which brews my personal favorite (seattle's best) and they're redoing the food court - i hear they're going to have a mongolian hibachi next fall.
the aviation facilities are clean, fairly modern, and fairly high tech. wireless internet in all aerospace facilities (802.11b) and plenty of wired connections too. big computer labs with good comps, fast printers, an old crummy scanner, some other stuff. the aerospace staff is pretty tough to beat. there's specialists in every imaginable field and the backgrounds they all have combines to make for a staff that can answer every single question and can also back it up with real-world expereience. most of the staff is friendly and approachable. they do a good job of holding on to good profs.
it's a state school, so it's cheap, assuming you either get reciprocity or you become a resident. becoming a resident of ND is painfully easy. you don't even have to have a job. all you need is a ND driver license and prove that you lived here for 12 months.
there's positives here, it's just easier and more fun to complain about the myriad of negatives
come spend a winter with us and you'll see why
summer school is cool, and the campus is really beautiful in the summer. they make a lot of effort to make it nice for those people who stick around the extra time. they've made improvents to the student union with an almost-authentic coffee shop which brews my personal favorite (seattle's best) and they're redoing the food court - i hear they're going to have a mongolian hibachi next fall.
the aviation facilities are clean, fairly modern, and fairly high tech. wireless internet in all aerospace facilities (802.11b) and plenty of wired connections too. big computer labs with good comps, fast printers, an old crummy scanner, some other stuff. the aerospace staff is pretty tough to beat. there's specialists in every imaginable field and the backgrounds they all have combines to make for a staff that can answer every single question and can also back it up with real-world expereience. most of the staff is friendly and approachable. they do a good job of holding on to good profs.
it's a state school, so it's cheap, assuming you either get reciprocity or you become a resident. becoming a resident of ND is painfully easy. you don't even have to have a job. all you need is a ND driver license and prove that you lived here for 12 months.
there's positives here, it's just easier and more fun to complain about the myriad of negatives
futurepilot
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Hey what part of ohio you from, I started out here at UND last fall in aviation/ATC; great school for flying, 'bout the food though....
Just visited UND this weekend. Liked the campus and the aerospace building and I'm leaning more to going to UND starting the Spring semester. During the tour, and people I talked too, no one really mentioned how well UND really does with graduates getting jobs. Many get to be a instructor at UND or you have to go find your own? Plus any numbers on UND graduates having any better chance getting a job over another person from another school/academy. I would really appreciate some responses on this which could really be the final say for deciding to go to UND or not.
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the UND graduate label is golden out in the real world. UND's reputation is awesome. your resume will be even more impressive if you instruct at UND for a semester or three. most, almost all, instructors here are in-bred, i.e., they were trained here from PPL onward. the instructors are mostly good but there's only so much you can learn from flying back and forth to crookston for a couple thousand hours. if you want to go straight to the airlines, this is probably the place to go, short of going to a PFT operation.
CRJDriver
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Jeremy,
Most graduates become flight instructors here at UND. We lost 70 flight instructors since December that got hired with regionals, including Horizon Air, American Eagle, Piedmont, ExpressJet, Mesaba and a few others. Piedmont is coming to UND on Wed. for interviews, and a lot of instructors will be interviewing and probably get a job. UND is planning on hiring around 80 new flight instructors this summer for the fall semester.
Most graduates become flight instructors here at UND. We lost 70 flight instructors since December that got hired with regionals, including Horizon Air, American Eagle, Piedmont, ExpressJet, Mesaba and a few others. Piedmont is coming to UND on Wed. for interviews, and a lot of instructors will be interviewing and probably get a job. UND is planning on hiring around 80 new flight instructors this summer for the fall semester.
mtsu_av8er
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Any outside hiring?
Icelandair
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dont know of many though who are from the outside. The second half of the "interview" process is where the faculty and airport staff meet in a closed room and evaluate the candidates (the person has already finished the interview for the day and is now home nervously waiting while they do this part...) based on prior knowledege and performance. It's worth 10 of the possible 20 points a candidate can earn.