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March 7th, 2006, 09:38
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March 7th, 2006, 09:45
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
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March 7th, 2006, 11:51
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: SE US
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| Hey Victor, JH both of y'all knock it off already. Enough is enough. Grow up, both of you. TX |
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March 7th, 2006, 12:33
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: farther north than the rest of you
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| honestly guys someones got to be the bigger man here and grow up. we are all adults here (well most of us) dont you think its time we started acting like it |
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March 7th, 2006, 12:42
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Maryland
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March 7th, 2006, 13:47
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NY
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I got my PVT back in 12/03 and loved my training. This flying thing was way cool, especially since I've always been fascinated by it since I was 3. After I got my PVT, I was flying cross countries every weekend and thought wouldn't it be great to get paid to do this instead of me shelling out money on an hourly basis? So began the search for the aviation career path. I got caught up with the excitement of flying and when CAPT told me that it was doable for me to become a pilot, I started the paperwork. I did some research and spoke to my CFI about it and he basically told me not to turn love into a career. I should have listened to him. I was especially concerned with the 550 hours of "flight experience" that CAPT stated on their website at the time. At the time, I thought, this is Embry-Riddle. They're world reknowned for flight training. They must know what they're doing. And because I was 32 at the time, I thought time was against me with a commercial airline career. The prospect of not having to go through the CFI path was very attractive. I also got sold on the fact that they had these new DA40s with GPS and TCAS on them. They also mentioned they're upgrading them to full glass panels. And they were getting the DA42s very shortly. With all this great equipment, and that full motion simulator, I figured, they must know what they're doing with all this equipment. (Incidentally, DA40s were never upgrades, the DA42 were never on the flight line.) To make a long story short, the program was supposed to be 10-12 months. I graduated in 18. They took their sweet a$$ time (5+ weeks) to even get my class' resumes together after graduation. Skipped out on our interview prep class, and managed to get people who graduated after us hired. To-date, only 1 of 6 people in my class has been hired, and only because he didn't want to wait for ASA anymore and the prospect of going to Pinnacle was not an attractive one (and I don't blame him for that whatsoever). Bottom line, hind sight being 20/20, Captain A is right on. Never entertain these programs. I can't speak to the other programs out there, but they are only interested in making money. They got mine. Don't let them get yours. The problem? How do you communicate these real world experiences to those people who didn't know any better, have no Internet access or don't know about the existence of these message boards (I didn't when I did my research)? So as long as there are these programs out there, there will always be someone going to it. It's absolutely imperative that people who know CFIs to educate them on this real world problem so that they can educate their students. | |
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March 7th, 2006, 14:04
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Peterborough, NH
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__________________ "Words Mean Things" -Jeff Zimring "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserves neither." -Benjamin Franklin CFI / CFII "The Ultimate Thread Killer" |
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March 7th, 2006, 14:14
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My point is that no matter how much education there is, not everybody will listen. I don't know how to solve the problem. | |
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March 7th, 2006, 14:43
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: NY
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| Actually, my CFI said only that. Now, if he told me about how I should look at my training and the expenses involved, as well as the initial return on investment (minor point), and the hassles of domiciles, commuting, and all that, well...that would have been another story. So it is still down to educating CFI so they can educate students.  |
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March 7th, 2006, 15:25
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Originally Posted by tonyw Technically, though, since he didn't call Bob a retard, only said picking on him was like hitting a retard, it wasn't a personal insult. Yeah, it is a grey area..HAHAHAHAH This is a joke refering to grey matter, not a gray area. | |
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March 7th, 2006, 18:40
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: UND
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| What the heck happened to this thread?!? It was actually interesting up until around page 5 when "Bob Loblaw's" avatar seemed to fill up every page with worthless rubbish. |
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March 7th, 2006, 23:06
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March 8th, 2006, 10:34
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DTW
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| Well said Flying Ninja. |
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