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FutureLeader

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What campus are you enrolled at, Daytona or Prescott?

What is your Major? Any Minors?

What year are you in?

What compelled you to enroll?

What a 3 things that you like about the school?

What are 1 or 2 things that you dislike?

Lastly, what would you say has made your experience so far, worth while?

Thanks so much for your cooperation, just want to get a feel what the ERAU experience is like.
 
1) Does this even count if I'm sitting in regional ground school? Oh yeah...Prescott.

2) Aeronautical Science with a Minor in Aviation Meteorology

3) I graduated in April of 2003 with 600 hours...if you want the trick lemme know.

4) I enrolled because I didn't get into Purdue. ERAU was a last resort for me but I think it worked out for the best.

5) 3 Things I like? Excellent ACADEMIC staff, new equipment, realistic operating environment as far as in cockpit procedures. Anything else in their operating manual is pretty much well...worthless.

6) 2 things? Just TWO? OK well the two things I disliked the most were a) Prescott in general, and I know people who would say the same about Daytona Beach and b) The Flight Department sponsored Riddle runaround.

7) What made my experience at Riddle worthwhile was being able to take my knowledge from Riddle at the end of my junior year and roll it over into being a CFI all of my senior year and then only having to instruct for 14 months after I graduated. Yeah...that's what made it worth it. Being a welcomed asset in industry, as long as you aren't some cocky punk who thinks the CEO of United owes you his life. You come out of Riddle good, but you certainly are nowhere near any better than anyone else in your newhire ground school.

Hope that helped...I'm sure most Riddle students will say something vaguely along the same lines. ERAU-PRC is definitely the way to go though if you're gonna fly, because you just change your major to Aeronautical Studies, go fly at North-Aire, have your CFI the beginning of your Junior Year, go to work for North-Aire, graduate with enough hours to go to a regional and still have your cherished, "ERAU Degree"

Free breakfast at the Phoenix Airport Residence Inn 7 days a week...what am I doing here?
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Here's a bit of a different perspective....

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What campus are you enrolled at, Daytona or Prescott?

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Distance Learning, which I guess is technically Daytona.
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What is your Major? Any Minors?

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Professional Aeronautics with a minor in Aviation Safety (might change this to Business, though)
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What year are you in?

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Senior
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What compelled you to enroll?

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Classes let me work at my own pace
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What a 3 things that you like about the school?

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Cheaper than the residential campuses, but the same degree
I can do flight training somewhere other than Riddle
I still have time to work a full time job without stressing my schedule
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What are 1 or 2 things that you dislike?

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$500 a class + books is still a little steep
I don't like having to find a proctor to take the exams, so I guess I kinda hate the drive to Daytona whenever I have to take one.
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Lastly, what would you say has made your experience so far, worth while?

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The ability to have a class at like 2 AM. Everything is done in either a forum setting or e-mail, so you set the class schedule. It takes some motivation to get everything done, but it works for me.
 
1. Prescott

2. Aeronautical Science, Pro Pilot concentration (don't ask why I got myself into that mess!)

3. Senior, graduating April 2005.

4. Back then, I was completely set on ERAU. I'd gotten accepted by UND, but I'd visited Prescott and liked the operation.

5. I echo the first two things that Tallboy mentioned. Most people will mention academics, which is very true...they're very good. Also, the equipment in the aircraft is top-notch, which I'm somewhat sad that I'm going to miss out on some of the cool toys. They're putting in ADS-B with terrain warnings, etc. I'd like to check out their new stuff, but they won't let a CP-ASMEL, IA pilot like me rent their planes. Of course if I was a PP-ASEL with a PQ card, that'd be another story.</sarcasm>

As for a third thing...well, I'll have to get back to you on that.

6. The training environment at the ERAU flightline. By the end of my training over there, I was being fed so much Riddle propaganda it made me sick. There is so much red tape, as well as a ridiculous amount of inane rules. Funny story, actually: I had a friend of mine sit left seat for me in STS-17T (short-winged Arrow...Tallboy knows what I'm talking about) while I was shooting patterns this week to prepare for my checkride (it's tomorrow, gah!). He was absolutely appalled that I could walk in, grab the book and keys, and just walk out to the airplane. What got him more was the non-ERAU method of checking the weather for a local flight: lick your thumb, hold it up to the wind, and hop in.

7. Seriously, getting out of the ERAU flight program has made my flying experience much more genuine. There's a lot more to flying than just rote memorization and red tape. I was helping another friend study for his instrument checkride recently, and I couldn't help but notice that all he was doing was spouting off definitions and technical details that didn't really matter. Sure, those kinds of things make you sound smart, but that doesn't really prove that you can do more than just memorize a book. Unfortunately, this sort of rote-level ability is accepted (and often condoned) over there.

I know that in the past, I've been the guy putting a positive slant on the school on this board. Seriously, my views have changed. If you're still set on going to ERAU, that's great...best of luck to you. My suggestion, however, is to do your degree as Aeronautical Studies, and save yourself a ton of money and runaround.
 
"I know that in the past, I've been the guy putting a positive slant on the school on this board. Seriously, my views have changed. If you're still set on going to ERAU, that's great...best of luck to you."

Glad you've seen the light....and I say that as a Riddle grad myself.
 
And long live 17T! May I never have to fly an underpowered airplane out of a high density altitude airport ever again!
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"I know that in the past, I've been the guy putting a positive slant on the school on this board. Seriously, my views have changed. If you're still set on going to ERAU, that's great...best of luck to you."

Glad you've seen the light....and I say that as a Riddle grad myself.

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He's seen the light! Halleujah!
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Seriously speaking, though; I echo a great majority of what both tallboy and RiddlePilot wrote. ERAU has some good qualities, but also some negative qualities that they really bring upon themselves.
 
I think if they made a few changes, they'd be unstoppable, but that would take them getting off their duff and engaging the alumni.

But nooo!
 
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I think if they made a few changes, they'd be unstoppable, but that would take them getting off their duff and engaging the alumni.

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I think they know most alumni are busy trying to pay back their loans from going there in the first place. It'd be like trying to squeeze blood from a turnip.
 
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