bachelors of aviation

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does any one have a bachelors of aviation im fixin to start college this semester and i'm majoring in aviation and im wondering if anyone knows if it would allow me to get a garenteed flight contract in the service

[Golfer]

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In my attempt to decipher your question there are some qualified guys to answer your question.  Current active, reserve in addition to retired military pilots and aviatiors could all help you out.  As far as what it will get you I hate to say it but aviation degrees grow on trees.  Simply pay your bill and in a few years you'll have one.  Mine was essentially open book and it's the second or third most useless thing in the world.  I wish I'd have majored in surfing because now I would at least know how to surf.

[Maverick]

What do you mean by "flight contract in the service". Are you referring to the Military?

There is darn little in the service that is guaranteed and virtually nothing in regards to career choices.

What are your goals in the service? Is it to pilot, crew, service the aircraft or what?

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Golfer
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In my attempt to decipher your question there are some qualified guys to answer your question.  Current active, reserve in addition to retired military pilots and aviatiors could all help you out.  As far as what it will get you I hate to say it but aviation degrees grow on trees.  Simply pay your bill and in a few years you'll have one.  Mine was essentially open book and it's the second or third most useless thing in the world.  I wish I'd have majored in surfing because now I would at least know how to surf.

LOL, true.

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[cav58d]

Whether you are going military or civillian, I would highly recommend AGAINST a degree in aviation.  I know guys who have majored in English and Communications and they are now flying the F-15E and the AH-64A.  Can a degree in aviation help you?  Sure, why not?  However, if you have a 3.3 and an aviation degree, and another guy fighting for that pilot slot has a 4.0 in economics or english, I have a feeling they are going with the other guy.  Sort of sucks, but thats the way it is.  GPA, and in/out of school activitys are going to be the most important factor.  Oh yea, and your LOR's..........

Another reason I would recommend against a degree in aviation is because you dont want to limit yourself.  When your first starting out, flying is the greatest thing since the individually sliced piece of bread...However, one day this dream will turn into a means to putting food on your families table and food over their head.  I've met quit a few pilots with amazing corporate jobs, who have packed up and left after about 10 years for various reasons...(Better pay outside of aviation, quality of life, wanting to be home more often etc...).  

If you ever get to that point (which very well may happen and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that by the way), you dont want to limit your future opportunity by having a degree that isn't very applicable to anything else.

Furthermore, what happens when your 40 and lose your medical?  (Refer back to the last paragraph about having a degree that isn't really applicable to other things).

Is getting a degree in aviation wrong?  No, definately not.  Your spending four years studying the field, and butt load of money for the next four years, so you want to make sure its something that will make you happy, and something you can academically excell in.  And like I said, right now its prolly very hard to ever think you would get burnt out on aviation, or that in the next couple decades you may face a career ending health risk, but believe me the possibility is there.  Just keep that in consideration and good luck.

What branch would you like to fly for by the way?

[Trell]

Go to college for what ever you want to take.  
  I have a friend that has a aviation degree and works as an air dispatcher while building up flight hours in his spare time.  The degree cost him lots of money,  and did not help him in getting this job.  but it is a degree.  and will help him if and when he becomes an airline  pilot

Latter in life most people i know do not have a degree in what they are actually doing.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

I have a BS in Aeronautical science from Florida Institute of Technology. It's about to learn how to build/manage an airport, a lot of regulation with such things as noise rings, taxi way angles and width, capacity issues.

Guys that graduate end up working at airport ops, or for a consulting company in noise management or construction.

Does that help?

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Originally posted by cav58d
Whether you are going military or civillian, I would highly recommend AGAINST a degree in aviation.  I know guys who have majored in English and Communications and they are now flying the F-15E and the AH-64A.  Can a degree in aviation help you?  Sure, why not?  However, if you have a 3.3 and an aviation degree, and another guy fighting for that pilot slot has a 4.0 in economics or english, I have a feeling they are going with the other guy.  Sort of sucks, but thats the way it is.  GPA, and in/out of school activitys are going to be the most important factor.  Oh yea, and your LOR's..........

Another reason I would recommend against a degree in aviation is because you dont want to limit yourself.  When your first starting out, flying is the greatest thing since the individually sliced piece of bread...However, one day this dream will turn into a means to putting food on your families table and food over their head.  I've met quit a few pilots with amazing corporate jobs, who have packed up and left after about 10 years for various reasons...(Better pay outside of aviation, quality of life, wanting to be home more often etc...).  

If you ever get to that point (which very well may happen and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that by the way), you dont want to limit your future opportunity by having a degree that isn't very applicable to anything else.

Furthermore, what happens when your 40 and lose your medical?  (Refer back to the last paragraph about having a degree that isn't really applicable to other things).

Is getting a degree in aviation wrong?  No, definately not.  Your spending four years studying the field, and butt load of money for the next four years, so you want to make sure its something that will make you happy, and something you can academically excell in.  And like I said, right now its prolly very hard to ever think you would get burnt out on aviation, or that in the next couple decades you may face a career ending health risk, but believe me the possibility is there.  Just keep that in consideration and good luck.

What branch would you like to fly for by the way?

 thanks cav that helped alot. and i want to fly for the marine corps or the navy most likely