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Originally Posted by August
I don't know what trade schools you're talking about but the one I teach at has to maintain a 76% placement rate or it looses it's accreditation and is no longer eligible for student loans. My course averages in the high 80's to low 90 percentile range. |
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Spartan School of Aeronautics
Daniel Webster College Aviation Program
Southeastern OSU aviation studies program
just to name a few.
go talk to any of their "recruiting" guys and they will lay out a whole degree plan and tell you about all the 23 year old first officers making $150,000 a year flying boxes around at FedEx and any number of other stories about young people making tons of money in the aviation industry.
they pump up young impressionable 18-19-20 year old kids with this BS and they go into debt chasing this dream only to graduate, start paying against their loans, and have almost NO job prospects besides flight instruction.
then, the flight instruction industry suffers because if you lined 100 flight instructors against the wall... 90 of them are there just to get a quick 500-1000 hours and go elsewhere. they may or may not be decent teachers, they may or may not be interested in whether or not you get your license... and most of them are just wanting to go home with what little money they made, grab a seat at the kitchen table and total up their logbooks every night.
the other 10 are in it to teach you for the right reasons. they love to teach, they love to interact with students and would do anything to get you a license.
and the "job placement" of institutions such as the ones i have mentioned are a bit askew of reality - reason being is that they offer flight instruction positions to a fair number of recent graduates which boosts their "placement numbers" by a considerable amount i would imagine.
the reality of it is - i know more pilots who are working in the insurance, retail, food service, construction and petroleum businesses than i do who are working in aviation.