RST Engineering wrote:

If you go to an "aviation" school and take "aviation", you have one career
choice in one particular field. If you go into computer science, or
engineering, or physics, or chemistry, you have a whole rainbow of choices
and as others have noted, you don't have to have an "aviation" degree to fly
for a living. .


Gotta agree with this one. Aviation is a tough field to make a living if
stability is important to you. While the future looks bright for pilots
today, it may not be that way 5 years (or even 2 years) from now. The field
tends to go through never ending boom/bust cycles.

I know a lot of folks that work in various aspects of of the field. From
airline pilots to engineers that design engines and avionics. The pilots
are most exposed to the fluctuations in the industry, but it does eventually
filter down even to the management and engineering professions as well. Of
all those groups, the engineers tend to have the most flexibility when times
get tough in the industry.

Having a degree that does not tie you to an industry that is as unstable as
commercial aviation is a plus.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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