EMU-Eastern Michigan University Aviation

[jhugz]

Alrighty,

I am thinking of going to EMU to pursue my dream of flying. Right now I live in Parma, OH a suburb of cleveland and I visited all the oh schools bg and kent etc....and out of all the schools I seemed to be most impressed with emu. Everyone there seems really nice and the equipment seems pretty impressive also along with being in a bigger airport which I think that this will great experience. I am getting in state tuition with some deal they have worked out with ohio students so thats also nice. Really I am just looking for insight pro's con's etc... any opinions would be appreciated

thx

james

[GJ1]

I heard EMU was like the most ghetto, run down uni in michigan... lol

Did you check out OSU? OU has a aviation program too, Im thinking about transferring there.

[jhugz]

def better then bg and kent imo, check it out i thought it would be dumb but i was rlly surprised like a said, out of all my visits i was most impressed with emu

[GJ1]

I just talked to my flight instructor today and he said that emu's flight program was really good, he just didn't know about the campus lol

[jhugz]

the town of ypsilhoweveruspellit is actually the normal college town, its about like 15min from ann arbor which is kinda seedy, and about 45 min from detroit which is prolly one of the worst cities in the us. but as long as you stay near the campus and the airport i think that its a nice little college town....plus their airport is huge with a lot of good ops to work at...im attempting to get a job at a charter service cleaning their airplanes

[Old Pete]

Originally Posted by jhugz

t ann arbor which is kinda seedy,

Maybe I don't recognize the sarcasm from an osu fan, but seriously, I don't think you could find a town more undeserving of the term seedy. I always thought of it as a pretty straight laced town.

[jhugz]

I didn't mean to sond like an idiot and offended you, but the part I drove through was kinda seedy, I mean it might not of been ann arbor, I rlly don't know the area that well...anywhoo it will be weird being an osu fan in ann arbor

[GJ1]

Well I might be upthere with you next semester, I just applied.

[jhugz]

koool...did you visit yet?

[GJ1]

No, I am gonna visit most likely in July sometime

[jhugz]

Well I have decided to go to school were I live instead of EMU, except I have an aprt. already leased and they won't let me out of it unless someone takes the lease, its not a sublease but let me know if your interested, you would be rooming with two other aviation students in a three bedroom/three bath apt.

[GJ1]

Originally Posted by jhugz

Well I have decided to go to school were I live instead of EMU, except I have an aprt. already leased and they won't let me out of it unless someone takes the lease, its not a sublease but let me know if your interested, you would be rooming with two other aviation students in a three bedroom/three bath apt.

Yeh I don't think I'm going to go to EMU either, I'm most likely going to be headed up to Dubuque either fall/spring semester.

[pilot4500]

You might want to check out Western Michigan University in Battle Creek. They have an fleet of new Cirrus SR 20s, maintenence is second to none, and the training is outstanding. I used to instruct there so I am somewhat partial to it. You might want to look into WMU before you make a final decision. Just a suggestion.

[Crockrocket94]

Ypsilanti is kinda a craphole....

Ann Arbor is very nice though. Spent 7 years living there


Where does the EMU school fly out of? Willow Run?

[bronco21016]

EMU is flying out of Willow Run. From what I understand they've had a pretty decent program flying newer Cessna 172s, some of them with the G1000. My girlfriend's dad works at the field and said he seems to have noticed they don't do as much operations though lately... not just this summer but last academic year as well.

As for the campus it's not exactly the place I would wanna be. My gf goes to school there and so I've spent alot of time on the campus and it's pretty ghetto. On the tours they only show you their few new buildings to make you wanna go there. The other big thing is the scandal they've got going on over there right now. The president was just recently fired after the administration covered up a girl's death in the dorms. They said she died of natural causes and then about 2 months later everyone (including the girls family) found out for the first time that she was raped and killed. That doesn't speak very highly of the administration at that school if you ask me.