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<blockquote data-quote="MrAUDU" data-source="post: 2521065" data-attributes="member: 860810">Neither one. They are both designed to extract as much money from the student and let the Feds (IRS) do their bill collecting. A recent ERAU grad was looking for info on how to get into military flight school, because not only was he unemployed, but worse, he was unemployable. Go to your local flight school and get your training there. All the licenses and ratings are determined by FAA standards and they are the same no matter where you obtain them. There way too many pilots and way too few seats. I saw an interesting statistic from England. BOAC could furlough every pilot it has today and replace them all&nbsp; (plus a couple of dozen left over) with the applications BOAC has on file now. The stats are no better in the US. Give you a clue? If you can, learn to fly through the Air Force or Navy. The training is top notch and better yet, they pay you. These are the steps that you go through to get to the cockpit of an airliner via the military. Do not fall prey to the civilian flight school hype. Remember that there are few jobs available and that you will compete with ex-military aviators whose qualifications are infinitely better than yours. The poorest performing military jet trainer has an infinitely higher level of performance the best civilian propeller-powered aircraft.For openers you must be a 4-year college graduate, graduate from Officer Candidate School (OCS) or some other officer entry program; i.e. AFROTC or NROTC, USAFA, USNA, USMA. You must be in nearly perfect health with at least 20/20 vision and no color-blind issues, at least 5&#039;6&quot; tall and no visible tattoos. Then you apply for flight school, graduate at or near the top of your class and the service must have an available slot in the jet program. So far, so good. Then you must learn to fly the particular aircraft that you are assigned, then learn to fly combat missions, day and night, good weather or bad, and then get the bird back to base (if you do all of this in the Navy you return to the most hazardous part of the mission - landing on the aircraft carrier). You can plan on roughly 6 years between the start of college and completing the program. Then you must complete your obligated length of service in the military. If it were easy, anybody could do it. Then go to the airlines and apply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrAUDU, post: 2521065, member: 860810"] Neither one. They are both designed to extract as much money from the student and let the Feds (IRS) do their bill collecting. A recent ERAU grad was looking for info on how to get into military flight school, because not only was he unemployed, but worse, he was unemployable. Go to your local flight school and get your training there. All the licenses and ratings are determined by FAA standards and they are the same no matter where you obtain them. There way too many pilots and way too few seats. I saw an interesting statistic from England. BOAC could furlough every pilot it has today and replace them all (plus a couple of dozen left over) with the applications BOAC has on file now. The stats are no better in the US. Give you a clue? If you can, learn to fly through the Air Force or Navy. The training is top notch and better yet, they pay you. These are the steps that you go through to get to the cockpit of an airliner via the military. Do not fall prey to the civilian flight school hype. Remember that there are few jobs available and that you will compete with ex-military aviators whose qualifications are infinitely better than yours. The poorest performing military jet trainer has an infinitely higher level of performance the best civilian propeller-powered aircraft. For openers you must be a 4-year college graduate, graduate from Officer Candidate School (OCS) or some other officer entry program; i.e. AFROTC or NROTC, USAFA, USNA, USMA. You must be in nearly perfect health with at least 20/20 vision and no color-blind issues, at least 5'6" tall and no visible tattoos. Then you apply for flight school, graduate at or near the top of your class and the service must have an available slot in the jet program. So far, so good. Then you must learn to fly the particular aircraft that you are assigned, then learn to fly combat missions, day and night, good weather or bad, and then get the bird back to base (if you do all of this in the Navy you return to the most hazardous part of the mission - landing on the aircraft carrier). You can plan on roughly 6 years between the start of college and completing the program. Then you must complete your obligated length of service in the military. If it were easy, anybody could do it. Then go to the airlines and apply. [/QUOTE]

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