The TSA has set strict background checks for pilot training.
Perhaps Purdue just doesn't want or need the extra
complications.
http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers...able_0215.shtm


wrote in message
ups.com...
| Thats interesting. I study Computer Science at Purdue
University, and
| my roommate is on the ATC track of Aviation Management but
is taking
| Private Pilot flight courses as well. He says you have to
be a US
| citizen to enroll in the flight courses at Purdue... would
this not be
| the same at ERAU, or is this a policy I am either
misunderstanding or
| is unique to Purdue?
|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| Yes it is, I'm sure there are students from all over the
| world, on time limited visas that need airplanes to fly.
|