kingair130
New Member
Hi all,
While growing up in NYC, I spent my summers in ND (primarily Devils Lake & GF). I had always wanted to be a pilot, but after hearing about a public high school that offers an airframe & powerplant + HS diploma, I became a bit detoured and set my eyes on that (never thought myself to have any kind of mechanical abilities whatso ever). I have about a 34 general credits from the CC in DL, and then took a break of transferring to UND after being hooked up with a job at Newark, thought it would a good idea to put my skills to the test, get a free education/experience (about aircraft and their systems, and the industry), and save up some cash to help get started at UND. Well, I love my job, but I realize I am not getting any younger (21), and would like to get started on flying (+4 year degree-at a minimum). UND has always appealed to me because of my family connections, their coaxing me about what a great school it is, amongst other things...
Well I'm just about almost fully signed up to start in Aug, but after doing a bit of research and stumbling along this wonderful fourm and und-fraud.org, I've been having some 2nd thoughts. I have no documented flying experience, which is good because I won't get screwed over with that. UND does have some ridiculous and scandalous policies and fees, which I surely do not agree with, but I am still willing to live with them. I see in the course catolog there are some classes such as turbine techology and aircraft systems, and possibly other that I didn't catch that i feel I could confidently test out of them if given the chance, but after a talk on the phone with someone from the aviation dept, they said no of course. I wonder if once I'm actually there in person though I might have a bit better luck of persuading someone? Anyone know of anybody or stories of A&Ps going through the program?
Is the aerospace notebook program as big a scam as it sounds?
I do not come from a wealthy family and not expecting any contributions, so I would like to make sure digging myself into 80-100k+ debt from this school worthwhile.
PS-I completed FAFSA a few weeks ago but it surely didn't factor in the flying expenses. What do I do about resolving that/can I?
* I looked into getting a job maintaining the UND fleet-sounded pretty cool, only to find they are paying those poor guys $8 an hour! (frankly, an insult ). Anybody know if those guys are able to piggyback or build hours for free or at a lower cost? If so I would only consider it then.
So, I am in the process of trying to possibly get into the contract company that runs the fed-ex carivans out there or GFK flight support which could defintely be advantageous.
Sorry about the unecessarily long post but any advice or input would be greatly appreciated from you guys and girls!!!
While growing up in NYC, I spent my summers in ND (primarily Devils Lake & GF). I had always wanted to be a pilot, but after hearing about a public high school that offers an airframe & powerplant + HS diploma, I became a bit detoured and set my eyes on that (never thought myself to have any kind of mechanical abilities whatso ever). I have about a 34 general credits from the CC in DL, and then took a break of transferring to UND after being hooked up with a job at Newark, thought it would a good idea to put my skills to the test, get a free education/experience (about aircraft and their systems, and the industry), and save up some cash to help get started at UND. Well, I love my job, but I realize I am not getting any younger (21), and would like to get started on flying (+4 year degree-at a minimum). UND has always appealed to me because of my family connections, their coaxing me about what a great school it is, amongst other things...
Well I'm just about almost fully signed up to start in Aug, but after doing a bit of research and stumbling along this wonderful fourm and und-fraud.org, I've been having some 2nd thoughts. I have no documented flying experience, which is good because I won't get screwed over with that. UND does have some ridiculous and scandalous policies and fees, which I surely do not agree with, but I am still willing to live with them. I see in the course catolog there are some classes such as turbine techology and aircraft systems, and possibly other that I didn't catch that i feel I could confidently test out of them if given the chance, but after a talk on the phone with someone from the aviation dept, they said no of course. I wonder if once I'm actually there in person though I might have a bit better luck of persuading someone? Anyone know of anybody or stories of A&Ps going through the program?
Is the aerospace notebook program as big a scam as it sounds?
I do not come from a wealthy family and not expecting any contributions, so I would like to make sure digging myself into 80-100k+ debt from this school worthwhile.
PS-I completed FAFSA a few weeks ago but it surely didn't factor in the flying expenses. What do I do about resolving that/can I?
* I looked into getting a job maintaining the UND fleet-sounded pretty cool, only to find they are paying those poor guys $8 an hour! (frankly, an insult ). Anybody know if those guys are able to piggyback or build hours for free or at a lower cost? If so I would only consider it then.
So, I am in the process of trying to possibly get into the contract company that runs the fed-ex carivans out there or GFK flight support which could defintely be advantageous.
Sorry about the unecessarily long post but any advice or input would be greatly appreciated from you guys and girls!!!