Well here I am again with my .02.
Sorry to hear your bad experience with ERAU Flyin Ace, that really sucks. I would like to say that I personally attend school at the Daytona Beach campus so I can't say much about the other one. I personally haven't had a problem here at Embry Riddle. Do I think it is expensive, definitly, but I am also getting instructed by some of the best instructors and in the best equipment. How many other schools can say they fly brand new C172 or maybe they are a few years old now. They also have color gps's and they are also installing TCAS in some of them. Most of the instructors that I have had, have about 2000 hours, and you ask well why arn't they hired yet? Well this is due to the fact that most get payed more to fly here then they would at lets say comair and others are not US citizens. My current instructor makes 21.50 an hour. Granted it isn't the best time sitting in a 172 but they do have a job and they are not waiting to be called back if you get my drift. I have had a good experience with most instructors and of course there will be a few everywhere that no one likes, but are you always going to like the capt. or FO you are flying with. I think not, so it also teaches you to suck it up and get on with it. I had a problem with one of my instructors and I sat down with TM and instructor and they found another instructor for me. If that didn't resolve the problem then I would have gone above them until the situation was to my liking. If I am going to spend that much money then I am going to get what I want.
I am definitly not saying it is the perfect flight line but I also don't think it is bad. The campus in Daytona Beach just installed some new system for schedualing called ETA. They spent close to 2 million dollars on it, was it necessary, heck no. They also have to strict of rules on the types of wx we experience. I am not saying to fly into thunderstorms but they tend to get a little rediculous. They did just get like 10 new sims, class 3, c172. They have full view full color display and it is supposed to be for VFR training. It is Supposed to bring down overall flight course cost. If I had to do it all over again. I would have probably went to ATP during my summers and instructor there upon graduation with an Aero Sci degree with aoc aviation studies. This way you get the best of both worlds, and a whole lot of multi time.
I am not sure what the current cost of the school is because I get some sort of pro rated cost because I started in 2000. My cost has gone up but it is no where near those starting today.
I also believe the training you receive at ERAU is totally up to the person. There are those that study and practice at home in sims and go on observer flights and then there are those that just wait till there next flight to see what they are going to do. It is like that in every classroom as well, that is why a there is a class average. Some people get A's and some get F's, why?
Another good thing about the Daytona Beach campus is the flight tutor lab. The student's in there get paid crap but they know there stuff. They have helped me on numerous occasions to learn things that I just didn't get. I remeber sitting in there for hours trying to do a partial panel NDB hold. And after I mastered it we worked on something else. The thing that pissed me off more than anything is I wasn't even asked to do it on the check ride.
All in all I believe that every individual is going to have there own story, but I believe it is the choices made while you are here to what the outcome is.
Clipper pilot, during my freshman year in Daytona Beach my whole floor was of the same major. They try to keep it that way for the most part but I can almost guarantee you will have a roomate of the same major. But sometimes there are times when you will be stuck with someone else.
And all of these paragraphs are for you MIKE. How did I do? English was never my thing, was I supposed to indent too.
Sorry to hear your bad experience with ERAU Flyin Ace, that really sucks. I would like to say that I personally attend school at the Daytona Beach campus so I can't say much about the other one. I personally haven't had a problem here at Embry Riddle. Do I think it is expensive, definitly, but I am also getting instructed by some of the best instructors and in the best equipment. How many other schools can say they fly brand new C172 or maybe they are a few years old now. They also have color gps's and they are also installing TCAS in some of them. Most of the instructors that I have had, have about 2000 hours, and you ask well why arn't they hired yet? Well this is due to the fact that most get payed more to fly here then they would at lets say comair and others are not US citizens. My current instructor makes 21.50 an hour. Granted it isn't the best time sitting in a 172 but they do have a job and they are not waiting to be called back if you get my drift. I have had a good experience with most instructors and of course there will be a few everywhere that no one likes, but are you always going to like the capt. or FO you are flying with. I think not, so it also teaches you to suck it up and get on with it. I had a problem with one of my instructors and I sat down with TM and instructor and they found another instructor for me. If that didn't resolve the problem then I would have gone above them until the situation was to my liking. If I am going to spend that much money then I am going to get what I want.
I am definitly not saying it is the perfect flight line but I also don't think it is bad. The campus in Daytona Beach just installed some new system for schedualing called ETA. They spent close to 2 million dollars on it, was it necessary, heck no. They also have to strict of rules on the types of wx we experience. I am not saying to fly into thunderstorms but they tend to get a little rediculous. They did just get like 10 new sims, class 3, c172. They have full view full color display and it is supposed to be for VFR training. It is Supposed to bring down overall flight course cost. If I had to do it all over again. I would have probably went to ATP during my summers and instructor there upon graduation with an Aero Sci degree with aoc aviation studies. This way you get the best of both worlds, and a whole lot of multi time.
I am not sure what the current cost of the school is because I get some sort of pro rated cost because I started in 2000. My cost has gone up but it is no where near those starting today.
I also believe the training you receive at ERAU is totally up to the person. There are those that study and practice at home in sims and go on observer flights and then there are those that just wait till there next flight to see what they are going to do. It is like that in every classroom as well, that is why a there is a class average. Some people get A's and some get F's, why?
Another good thing about the Daytona Beach campus is the flight tutor lab. The student's in there get paid crap but they know there stuff. They have helped me on numerous occasions to learn things that I just didn't get. I remeber sitting in there for hours trying to do a partial panel NDB hold. And after I mastered it we worked on something else. The thing that pissed me off more than anything is I wasn't even asked to do it on the check ride.
All in all I believe that every individual is going to have there own story, but I believe it is the choices made while you are here to what the outcome is.
Clipper pilot, during my freshman year in Daytona Beach my whole floor was of the same major. They try to keep it that way for the most part but I can almost guarantee you will have a roomate of the same major. But sometimes there are times when you will be stuck with someone else.
And all of these paragraphs are for you MIKE. How did I do? English was never my thing, was I supposed to indent too.
