ERAU - CAPT. Program - Mass Email

Malko

Malko

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Wow, I just received an email from ERAU about the CAPT program and guess what:

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In about 12-months, the CAPT Program can take you from 'zero time' to a job as an airline pilot. You'll not only learn to fly the big jets, you'll actually become a licensed Boeing jet captain!


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Now I am sure that ERAU grads get a great education, but how on earth can you go from zero-to-captain?

It's interesting that they have to mass market email to get out the info about the program.
 
Can you post more of the e-mail here?

I'm not considering doing the capt program; I'd just like to see what else is mentioned about it.

Surely there are better ways to get quality flying experience!
 
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Dear Brian,

Your airline career begins when you choose your flight school. The decision can be difficult and the options can be confusing. Who should you trust with your future and your career?

Trust Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's CAPT Program. The world's leading aviation institution has partnered with the airline industry to create a fast-track program designed specifically to train airline pilots. The airlines asked for strict applicant screening, to find people with maturity and focus. The CAPT Program was designed to find those individuals and to train them with the job-skills needed to fly a jet for a modern airline.

Once accepted, CAPT cadets undergo 12 intensive months of advanced, airline job-skills training. As a CAPT graduate, you'll be a Boeing jetliner captain with the capabilities and judgment that the airlines are looking for. Our recent graduates' airline placement is proof.











Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's
CAPT Program is the airline industry's most advanced and innovative training program.

By using airline new-hire screening and selection criteria, and combining that with an airline specific training program, CAPT graduates have become the most sought-after pilots in the airline industry.

In about 12-months, the CAPT Program can take you from 'zero time' to a job as an airline pilot. You'll not only learn to fly the big jets, you'll actually become a licensed Boeing jet captain!

1-877-577-CAPT
www.CAPTprogram.org



Decisions about your airline training can have an impact throughout your entire aviation career. Choose the school you can trust. Choose the institution the airlines trust. Choose the
CAPT Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Sincerely,
The Admissions Staff at the CAPT Program

1-877-577-CAPT (2278)
www.CAPTprogram.org
M-F, 9-5 Eastern Time




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They used some mass market email

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Where did they get my name. Ughhhh

I did order the cd just to get a video tour.
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I guess I can't blame anyone but myself now.
 
Their website has a great intro though. but what I do not understand is why do they offer an MD-90 Captain's rating instead of a CFI, CFI-I or MEI rating? How can it make their graduets more competitive?
 
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Their website has a great intro though. but what I do not understand is why do they offer an MD-90 Captain's rating instead of a CFI, CFI-I or MEI rating? How can it make their graduets more competitive?

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because they are trained so well, being a CFI would just be a waste of time, CAPT graduates are SO GOOD they go directly to the left seat of a MD-90 upon graduation completely bypassing all the qualified pilots working their way up. There is no need to ever become a lowly first officer either because you're trained to Captain standards from day one!

btw- your gonna need a MD-90 Captain job to pay off that HUGE loan
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What a waste of money
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By using airline new-hire screening and selection criteria, and combining that with an airline specific training program, CAPT graduates have become the most sought-after pilots in the airline industry.


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Most sought after in the industry? Where do I sign up? I really hope that nobody buys into this shtuff.
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i am a current riddle grad and i think this CAPT stuff is just making the rest of the school look really bad to the aviation community.
 
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MD-90

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correct me if I'm wrong but arent there only about 15 MD-90s operating in the United States.
 
If I remember correctly from earlier posts along this line it is more of a tpye rating thing. If you were an MD90 captain that would be the same as MD80, etc... Captain. Anyone else????
 
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If I remember correctly from earlier posts along this line it is more of a tpye rating thing. If you were an MD90 captain that would be the same as MD80, etc... Captain. Anyone else????

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And all the DC 9's I believe.
 
I don't think the issue is "what are the chances of being hired to fly an MD-90?", but rather, how useful is a self-paid type rating at the point anyway? I think if you had one at all, a B-1900, ERJ, CRJ, B-737, or A-320 type rating would be much more useful.
 
How many hours of actual time do you get with this program? When the minimums are what, in the thousands, you better get more than that.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
 
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How many hours of actual time do you get with this program?

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Direct from the CAPT website:
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The CAPT Cadet, with approximately 550 hours, will be able to handle and complete airline training with their prospective employer with a level of expertise of a pilot with many more hours.


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Cost?
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Effective Summer 2004, the tuition for the complete CAPT Program is $80,000.

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80 large. Yikes !!!
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Now it's all making sense! Obviously, CAPT cadets will pay $80K, fly SpaceShipOne, get a commercial astronaut rating, and thus be perfectly able to compete against those with higher hours! Sounds like a bargain!
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