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Private, Commercial, and Instrument certifications.

Will take 3 semesters to complete (done by Dec 2012).

Then he has to instruct for 1000 hours before he can fly commercially.

50K cheaper than staying in-state because we're just getting an associates, not a bachelors.

Although in-state has one of the Top-5 flight schools in the country (Western Michigan).
 
get a multi engine rating in there somewhere, it will come in handy especially when youre trying to make money as a pilot with very few hours. the instrument rating will be the hardest part (other than surviving as a junior instructor without many hours... the private sector market is not what it used to be) but im sure youll do just fine. let me know if you have any questions.
 
Arizona State apparently has a killer flight school. You train on a CRJ simulator and have an "interview" with Mesa Airlines post graduation. They operate the regional jets for United and US Airways in addition to a low cost airline based in hawaii called go!Mokulele . Potato almost went there but for 100K the price tag is just to big for a somewhat dying industry. Tomato thinks Potato should go there, but the school is in Mesa, not Tempe. He's going to CSN (College of Southern Nevada) to get an associates plus the 3 certifications above then if he can't land a job will likely get his bachelors at ASU.

He's got an old friend who just went through Embry Riddle. Apparently he has worked for Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines and JetBlue. He called Potato a few days ago. For whatever reason, Potato didn't return his call but needs to do so. Potato would like to say he's distracted by sports betting, but that's just a built in excuse for being lazy and anti-social.
 
the airlines are all broke. civilian pilots and aircrew make a fraction of what they made 10 years ago and many have had their pensions reduced to nothing at all.

9-11 and government post-9-11 measures drastically curtailed the public demand available to airlines thus causing a massive inflation of ticket prices. this created a vicious cycle type feedback loop causing the airline industry as a whole to have to cut costs in dramatic ways (obviously further contributing to said feedback loop).
 
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the airlines are all broke. civilian pilots and aircrew make a fraction of what they made 10 years ago and many have had their pensions reduced to nothing at all.

9-11 and government post-9-11 measures drastically curtailed the public demand available to airlines thus causing a massive inflation of ticket prices. this created a vicious cycle type feedback loop causing the airline industry as a whole to have to cut costs in dramatic ways (obviously further contributing to said feedback loop).
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This is a very excellent explanation but it makes me thing that this is not a "dying industry" but more of an industry that would not seem attractive to young people to get into.


At the end of the day, people still will/need to fly and there aren't any viable alternatives to get overseas or across the country.

Airlines will continue to exist and people will continue to fly the planes so "dying" isn't really the proper term.
 
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