Re: University of North Dakota Q&A\'s
Skubasteve,
As long as you have the required time and experience and a 4 year degree in something, you can get hired. The main reason people go to UND is to sperate themselves from the rest.
Everybody keeps saying, "There is such a pilot shortage, anyone can get hired." This is bull! All the airlines are still reciving way more appilcations than they have job openings. The Cheif pilot at a major airline may look at 100 aplications a day. What will set yours apart from the other 99 that day? What will get your resume put in the "call" file and what will get it put in the trash?
There is still plenty of competion for jobs out there. I may be alot less than 10 years ago, but there is still competion.
UND offers many different ways to seperated yourself from the "other guy". Internships and hireing agrements are just a couple.
That is not to say that you must go to UND or ERAU to fly fore the airlines. The airlines have many many pilots who went to a local college while instructing at the local FBO. There is nothing wrong with doing it that way. The botem line is, what ever gets the job done!
However if I am up for a job, and it comes down to me or another guy. If we both have the same flight time and experience, and I went to UND and he went to "Crazy Harry's Pilot School" in East Nowhere Fl. I like my chances in that situation. Like I said it is a way to seperate yourself form the "other guy"
I hope that dosent sound cocky, I really dont mean to be. There are alot of ways to get to the right seat of a airliner, inform yourself, and pick the way that is best for you.
Good luck to you
