lifesbeachy
Well-Known Member
So I am wondering from you guys what you would consider to be the best route in my shoes.
I'm 26, and I am jumping back into aviation. I do not yet have my private (due to color vision issues that are taken care of for now, as well as a few other things). I have not finished my degree yet, but I do have nothing but an aviation background since birth. I am a veteran, and I am eligible for 60% of the Post 911 GI bill.
Would you go back to college, that has a good aviation program, that also happens to be a mile from your house, and use the GI bill to pay 60% of all of that? Despite the fact that I will be near 30 years old when I graduate, will this matter?
Would you go to school for something else (my other passion is entrepreneurship and psychology), and just work on your ratings on the side even though now your GI bill would not help to pay for your ratings?
My thought is to attend my local state college, get through their pro pilot program, at the same time I would join their ROTC program and rejoin the Guard so that my tuition and loans are taken care of (would be nice to graduate debt free, or mostly so), and maybe take some extra entrepreneurship related courses while there.
The thing I wonder about that is, I will be turning 30 when I graduate, is this a bit deal haha? I feel like it is, I feel behind the curve here so the impatient side of me says borrow the money, get all your ratings done now, instruct while in college to build time, and get a non-aviation degree.
Would love to hear some words of wisdom, thoughts, ideas, advice!
P.S.-Military aviation is not really an option because of my color vision problem, I tried that already with WOFT in the Army.
Thanks!
I'm 26, and I am jumping back into aviation. I do not yet have my private (due to color vision issues that are taken care of for now, as well as a few other things). I have not finished my degree yet, but I do have nothing but an aviation background since birth. I am a veteran, and I am eligible for 60% of the Post 911 GI bill.
Would you go back to college, that has a good aviation program, that also happens to be a mile from your house, and use the GI bill to pay 60% of all of that? Despite the fact that I will be near 30 years old when I graduate, will this matter?
Would you go to school for something else (my other passion is entrepreneurship and psychology), and just work on your ratings on the side even though now your GI bill would not help to pay for your ratings?
My thought is to attend my local state college, get through their pro pilot program, at the same time I would join their ROTC program and rejoin the Guard so that my tuition and loans are taken care of (would be nice to graduate debt free, or mostly so), and maybe take some extra entrepreneurship related courses while there.
The thing I wonder about that is, I will be turning 30 when I graduate, is this a bit deal haha? I feel like it is, I feel behind the curve here so the impatient side of me says borrow the money, get all your ratings done now, instruct while in college to build time, and get a non-aviation degree.
Would love to hear some words of wisdom, thoughts, ideas, advice!
P.S.-Military aviation is not really an option because of my color vision problem, I tried that already with WOFT in the Army.
Thanks!