Plane Answers: A controller opinion on the JFK kid and a college major for pilots

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3-11-2010 @ 5:25AM

Joe said...

If you are entering or are in college another thing to look for is nearby airports. My university didn't have a pilot major or degree (aerospace engineering, certainly) but it did have it's own airport. Courses were significantly cheaper, probably due to the fact that it was on school property and low cost of living in the area. I met a lot of students who were NROTC, AFROTC working on their PPL (DoD paid for it). Once I graduated and moved to a major city the price for flight hours doubled, severely impacting my budget.

So if you can get flight time at school, do it there, because that's about as cheap as it's going to get.

3-11-2010 @ 9:40AM

Kent Wien said...

Good advice, Joe. That's how I did it, in fact.

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