Well known aviation universities in Texas?

Well, I made up a list of associated costs with each of my options, and what things would really cost with each option. So I'm definitely going to NOT do the university thing right now. It just doesn't make sense to spend the money on credits that are no better than ones from any comm. college or the like. That way, all the VA money that I don't need to spend on tuition can go towards FLYING! And I'm not limited to that bull**** 60% re-imbursement. And to make things even more practical, do online courses and work as much as I want so I can fly as much as I want to. I don't imagine you're limited to doing your flying as slow as completing the degree........
 
And you will still only get 60% for your flight training from the VA. It's just the way those knuckle heads in DC wrote the laws.
 
FutrLftSeat82 said:
U of T doesn't have anything except an aero-engineering program (which could def. be fun)
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whoa whoa whoa...

U of T? You must mean UT, the greatest school in North America.

My two recomendations: Don't go to UT if you want to progress in aviation during college. GA down here is pretty miserable, though if you know the right people you can train for pretty cheap (I'll be spending about 15k for PPL-CFI if I'm ever able to finish...won't have the MEI or multi time that some of the big schools get you, but I'll save that 15k and wait on an Air Force slot).

However, do go to somewhere like UT, aka, a fun university. In my third year here and I've had the pleasure of watching Cedric Benson, Derrick Johnson, VY!!!, Lamarcus Aldridge, Daniel Gibson, Kevin effin Durant, our cheerleaders and pom squad, etc and played ice hockey, raced road, track, and mountain bikes, played IM softball and raquetball, heard Nobel Prize Winners give lectures, chilled with the Dalai Lama one time...So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one---big hitter, the Lama...seriously, though, he came here last year...Oh and there's always downtown for everyone who's not paying for flight training and can afford to go there.

You might look into the schools I'm really not supposed to recommend as a UT student...Oklahoma State has a flying program, I think OU might offer something, A&M has their own airport and I'm guessing flying program of some sort if you can stand living in College Station with ugly girls for 4 years...
 
Keebler said:
And you will still only get 60% for your flight training from the VA. It's just the way those knuckle heads in DC wrote the laws.
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So are you saying that I can pull the regular monthly amounts for school...AND, receive the 60% for flight training? IF NOT, all I was saying was that I can be enrolled full time to any college (some place cheap), pull my VA bens'...and use whats left over for flight training. And I'll work to keep myself in the air as much as possible on top of that.
 
mhcasey said:
whoa whoa whoa...

U of T? You must mean UT, the greatest school in North America.

My two recomendations: Don't go to UT if you want to progress in aviation during college. GA down here is pretty miserable, though if you know the right people you can train for pretty cheap (I'll be spending about 15k for PPL-CFI if I'm ever able to finish...won't have the MEI or multi time that some of the big schools get you, but I'll save that 15k and wait on an Air Force slot).

However, do go to somewhere like UT, aka, a fun university. In my third year here and I've had the pleasure of watching Cedric Benson, Derrick Johnson, VY!!!, Lamarcus Aldridge, Daniel Gibson, Kevin effin Durant, our cheerleaders and pom squad, etc and played ice hockey, raced road, track, and mountain bikes, played IM softball and raquetball, heard Nobel Prize Winners give lectures, chilled with the Dalai Lama one time...So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one---big hitter, the Lama...seriously, though, he came here last year...Oh and there's always downtown for everyone who's not paying for flight training and can afford to go there.

You might look into the schools I'm really not supposed to recommend as a UT student...Oklahoma State has a flying program, I think OU might offer something, A&M has their own airport and I'm guessing flying program of some sort if you can stand living in College Station with ugly girls for 4 years...
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Yeah, def. a typo! LOL...Yeah, I've thought about that stuff. It's just so much more extra money to go to a (nice) university. For the longest time I was considering UT's aero-engineering program. Because I've always heard people talking about how its a good thing to have a degree in something other than aviation to fall back on. But I'd really like to fall back into something aviation related anyways when the day comes that (dare I say) I can no longer fly professionally. I'll have an Associates in Electonics here in about 6 months, but by the time the day rolls around where I'll need to use that, I'll have forgotten 99% of everything I knew about it, lol. Unless I end up doing A&P on the side down the road. ANYWAY, I know I'm going to have to miss out on a lot of good times not going to a big university, but like you said...if you can convince yourself to hold off on flying to do it...:rolleyes: ...I still have about 3 1/2 months to figure everything out. I'm due to finish my PPL the months after getting out, and need to have things lined up before I get done with that.
 
You need to go to college. Don't skip out on a quality education like a lot of new pilots are. You can easly go to a 4 year university and also do your flying part 61. I did it and I know a lot of people who have. Trust me if you go the route of just wanting to learn to fly, you are going to miss out on a lot of things that you can only experience in college. Also major is something other than aviation. You will always need something to fall back on.
 
BaylorPilot said:
You need to go to college. Don't skip out on a quality education like a lot of new pilots are. You can easly go to a 4 year university and also do your flying part 61. I did it and I know a lot of people who have. Trust me if you go the route of just wanting to learn to fly, you are going to miss out on a lot of things that you can only experience in college. Also major is something other than aviation. You will always need something to fall back on.
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Believe me, I'd like to go in and sit down for at least some of my classes. I know some of them are going to be a joke, and those I don't mind taking online. As far as flying part 61, I guess I could do that (school) and just use my leftover VA money. But if I go to school somewhere thats going to take up most of that $$ (like $5500 a semester or so), I'm going to have to personally fund my flying...something that I was trying to get around doing. I figured if I could find a school that tuition was only like $2000 or less, I could use the other $3500 for flying. That's just shy of having $1000 month to fly on, and I'd have a job as well to pick up extra. $1000/mo is only good for about two ONE hour lessons a week:/ BUT, if I could spend less on tuition, I could fly more...:confused:
 
A&M has their own airport and I'm guessing flying program of some sort if you can stand living in College Station with ugly girls for 4 years...[/quote]

Ugly girls?! Wow, evidently its been a long while since you have been there my friend. You must be still be upset about that November football game...or maybe about the whooping yall took in College Station back in Feb.......or maybe it's that your watching the final 16 NCAABB teams play with a "heavy heart". Either way, the girls in College Station are by no means ugly and atleast in College Station the girls still like the boys and the boys stlii like the girls.
 
bwade210 said:
Ugly girls?! Wow, evidently its been a long while since you have been there my friend. You must be still be upset about that November football game...or maybe about the whooping yall took in College Station back in Feb.......or maybe it's that your watching the final 16 NCAABB teams play with a "heavy heart". Either way, the girls in College Station are by no means ugly and atleast in College Station the girls still like the boys and the boys stlii like the girls.
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I could be an @$$...BUT instead; if you go back and read ALL of the posts on this topic and their authors, you'll more than likely see (eh, maybe chances are more like 110%!) that I didn't write that. Thanks for 'jacking my thread anyhow...and have a nice day!!:sarcasm:
 
BaylorPilot said:
You need to go to college. Don't skip out on a quality education like a lot of new pilots are.
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True, you can only experience some things in college, but not everyone can afford to go to a University and get all the flight ratings. If you are able to do both, then do it. For us poor folk like me, who fight for every penny we make, it was ultimately better for me to go to community college for the basics.

They still provide a quality education, and to me, it seemed like a better learning environment to have a class with 30 people in it, instead of 70+. The extended campus at ERAU also provides a smaller, more personable learning environment than larger classes. I am majoring in Professional Aeronautics with a management minor. I can't imagine being an Accountant or an Electrical Engineer if the whole flying thing doesn't work out. I want to be in Aviation, and there are plenty of management type jobs in the industry, so that is what I am getting my degree in.

Basically what I am saying is that you shouldn't assume that you can't get a quality education at a community college and that each man should choose his own path, as the same path isn't good for everyone.
 
bwade210 said:
Ugly girls?! Wow, evidently its been a long while since you have been there my friend. You must be still be upset about that November football game...or maybe about the whooping yall took in College Station back in Feb.......or maybe it's that your watching the final 16 NCAABB teams play with a "heavy heart". Either way, the girls in College Station are by no means ugly and atleast in College Station the girls still like the boys and the boys stlii like the girls.
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No dude, I'm still upset about core members attempting to ram their proverbial "yell leader sticks" up my proverbial "revellie tail" everytime I go out there. I'm also upset but not at all surprised that in Aggieland the contraction "you're" has not yet been discussed. Creativity must be a point of emphasis though, as evidenced by your ingenius homophobic joke at the end there.

To keep this post relevant though, yeah if you can't afford to go to a big school I can definitely respect that. I'm not sure how the VA Bennies work, but it seems like you could just find a cheap public school (OSU can't be much more than 2,000/semester and I think UNT up in Denton is about the same) and a nearby Part 141 Program, use the bennies simultaneously at both, and come out at right around what you'd be spending to do a university aviation program anyway?

I would recommend getting some prereqs done at JC either way, though. They're way cheaper and easier.

P.S. -

VY's NFL career: check
Regina's: ?
Durant's future in the NBA: check
Acie's future as a motivational speaker: Check+
 
FutrLftSeat82 said:
I could be an @$$...BUT instead; if you go back and read ALL of the posts on this topic and their authors, you'll more than likely see (eh, maybe chances are more like 110%!) that I didn't write that. Thanks for 'jacking my thread anyhow...and have a nice day!!:sarcasm:
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Ummmmm...when did I say that you said that?!
 
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VY's NFL career: check
Regina's: ?
Durant's future in the NBA: check
Acie's future as a motivational speaker: Check+[/quote]

How's your boy Ricky Williams doing?
 
mhcasey

Does the University Flying Club still have the 152? When I joined it back in the late 80's, they had no airplane, which I thought was criminal for a school with 50,000 students. Anyway, a bunch of us figured out how to get one, and it was going strong in 1990 when I graduated.

As far as Mountain View, Dallas County used to offer a break on flight time (it was like $4/hr) if you were a Dallas resident. That may be long gone.
 
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