The place is a joke. the managment is childish and rude as are most of the instrructors. Constant unfair treatment and failures. Back door shady billing out the ass. Its a shame that good students and instructors are shammed by this crap as i was. As a side note i have worked personally with the man in the clip and he is a very good instructor.
Hey I know you. been there the same time you were. Its a good school. learned alot but yes it is overpriced. I got smart in time and took whatever is left of my cash and got multiple types next door at Avion Jet center. Now I'm enjoying life as a captain of a Falcon 50 at avion, while others a re forced into instructing at DCA. boooo. Im not risking my licenses on newbees.
fuck that place. Everything is dual students never learn to fly on their own. Plus u get raped with a loan plus interest. If u spent 85k to finish chances are your loan is up to $100k. have fun.
I start DCA soon I heard bad things mainly to do with the fact that it's overpriced.But everyone says they are structured I like that if I don't have a set time to do something I will slack off so DCA is good for me. I'm going to the DCA in SFL it's paired up with Broward College that's why I'm going there,I can get a degree mixed in with flight school.I could of went to FIU and a local FBO which would be hard for me to juggle both + a job so BC+DCA is a good deal and my credits transfer to UF
85K for the first year!!!!! Good grief. I was looking at attending the Houston location but not for that kind of money! What do they pay the instructors if you don't mind me asking?
They dont pay them crap, something like 15-20 bucks an hour but charge 57. Thanks to congress now every pilot will need ATP to fly under part 141. So us newbies are SOL. We have to find a way to get ATP and then get looking at 141 if we even care to stay there. I am considering going out of country if it gets too bad
lmao part 141 is a type of flight school im pretty sure you dont need and ATP to attend DCA the last time i checked lmao i think you met part 121 (airline carriers) buddy... and btw they congress has not passed that law yet it can take a year or 2untill that law is passed and put into action
hey i know u, i use to see you all the time in the LRC...LOL
i left dca with commerical rating, i dont think its a "good school". instructors are charging random briefing times. the stage check pilots are assholes about 80% of them are at lease.
DCA is a nice place for Standz and procedure. After leaving there with a CFI, I landed a decend job in CA. However, most of the people I know here are from ATP. They are making the same money as I do, but spent 1/3 of the time.. with about 20% less.. plus 2 more instructor rating.
I think its your call, a cheap fast track, or an expensive good procedure training. They all end in the same spot..
The ONLY good thing I can say about DCA is if you are willing to put up with all their bold faced lies and continually spending almost twice the amount of money they say is required, the education you get out of it is actually one of the best. But don't fall for their rhetoric that DCA is the only or even the best way to get a job at a regional airline.
DCA's scripted answer: "That all depends on you." Delta Connection Academy's repeated mantra is "Never be specific about how much anything is going to cost. Place full responsibility upon the students shoulders."
If you totally suck as a pilot, they will let you pour as much money as you are crazy enough to pour into it and then maybe after you've spent $20,000 and still no private sit you down for a "are-you-sure-flying-airplanes-is-for-you? Socratic session.
Failing only 1 check-ride (CFI) I went all the way through the program at the Broward College location. When I walked in the door they hit me with estimates as low as $21,664 and as high as $27,160. When I had finished I had spent $43,121. They billed getting your Private as a 1 semester "primary flight" class. 3 months. It took me 9 combined months of flying. Not normal? (cont.)
...Actually quite normal. "Getting your PPL should cost around $7500 and take the better part of a year." Source AOPA Flight Training Magazine Nov. 2002.
In 2002 I caught one of the directors in a lie when he told me after returning from 3 months away that I had to go back 4 or 5 lessons and fly them all over because the FAA was making them, make me, do it. I called the FAA. They told me this was not true since it is a Part 141 program, DCA has complete control over their own curriculum.
I am half way through commercial and I am happy where I am... I love the school and its mission. I love the management too, if you have a problem and bring it to them it will be worked out.
im looking at schools and i want to be an airline pilot, i dont think the military road is the way for me. so what other way could i take? i fly on flight simulator at home and everything i know a lot. but i wanna be there some day instead of looking at it (cockpit)
$100,000 for everybody crap pilot my ars.You will watch it add up!! Plus Interest. Can't wait till you have to live on first year pay. Leave that place as soon as you can!! You don't need dca anymore. Don't believe the b.s. from your instructors or the drop out recruiters.
Indeed. In addition, DCA lives on the promise of giving you AN INTERVIEW with regional airlines. This "Interview" can be had by almost anyone who isn't a check-ride failing junky. The real test of if you get "the job" or not comes if you can keep up with the hectic pace of SIC. and type rating training at the airline you get on with. What's more, in a world where the average CFI's hourly is $25-$30, DCA is only paying $14 and they don't have a death benefit or health insurance available.
What's more, don't get all hypnotized by the flight benefits carrot they dangle in front of you. Sure, you might have them, but at $14/hr. unless you have frnds or fam. where you are flying to YOU CAN'T STAY. Sure you can fly to Tokyo for free but you can't afford to pay for a single night in a hotel there, so why even go? Free first class tickets? NO WAY. First they over book every flight these days, then offer $50 upgrades to all the passengers. IF a seat remains, then you get it.
100k? their partnered with my local college (broward) and people have gone all the way to CFII for about 50k. I'm going to be joining them by the end of the year.
It is. The only thing that sets Delta Connection apart from other schools is the type & style of training. You are being trained for the airlines, everything we do, talk, and look at and even work with is similar to exactly like the airlines.
The knowledge when you leave this school is a big thing. I know people that came from FBO, part 61 and even 141 training and they don't even know half of what we get trained to. I know what I could be spending some where else, but I'm staying right here
Its only 100k if you are one crap ass pilot & keep failing & don't know how to budget!!! DCA has it advantages and disadvantages just like all schools.
There extremely safe... I mean come on they have parachutes!?!? lol also to familiarize you with automation, its very important know how to work different systems & you have to be on top of things and fast... things happen faster in a cirrus than a 172
Cirrus is having so many problems with the Avadyne PFD/MFD set up in the SR20/22 that they are now changing over to the Garmon G1000 glass cockpit. Cessna has had the G1000 glass cockpit standard in the C172 for 2 years now. The SR20 is indeed a far more precise airplane to fly, but, what's the procedure for recovering from a spin? "Pull the chute." The SR20 is not spin rated. Furhter, while on my FAA CFIi check-ride, the engine just stopped shortly after touching down. New SR20. JUST STOPPED.
Yeah its called the approach checklish... Fuel Pump ON... The Avadyne is not a bad system and the reason Cirrus used it was to keep cost down for the consumer... The new cirrus with perspective (G1000) costs ALOT MORE!!! DCA is what you make of it, I don't suck so I like it there.
lol kurt, you should have known i would find this vid. guess what its a montage competition now! that was decent looking partial panel approach though.
awesome vid, man! I'm soon to be a student there at DCA starting in September. I'll be there in a few weeks to tour and enroll... I'm so excited... you guys seem to be having fun there, and I can't wait to be a part of the DCA family!
The place is a joke. the managment is childish and rude as are most of the instrructors. Constant unfair treatment and failures. Back door shady billing out the ass. Its a shame that good students and instructors are shammed by this crap as i was. As a side note i have worked personally with the man in the clip and he is a very good instructor.
lancepappazecus 1 year ago
nice , a rich fag ...
you are worhtless.
ypaul123 1 year ago
faggot piece of shit cocksucker
ypaul123 1 year ago
Hey I know you. been there the same time you were. Its a good school. learned alot but yes it is overpriced. I got smart in time and took whatever is left of my cash and got multiple types next door at Avion Jet center. Now I'm enjoying life as a captain of a Falcon 50 at avion, while others a re forced into instructing at DCA. boooo. Im not risking my licenses on newbees.
bbierut1 2 years ago
@bbierut1 is dca a college like erau? do you need college to go here? do you need good grades to go here? srry im only 13 and i want to fly so badd
SpartanW98 1 year ago
you have to be 18 to enroll
ilovenaltsvideos 1 year ago
fuck that place. Everything is dual students never learn to fly on their own. Plus u get raped with a loan plus interest. If u spent 85k to finish chances are your loan is up to $100k. have fun.
kefster00 2 years ago
@kefster00 Same here man. Just go somewhere else where you can get your ratings for about 40-50k
packerfan084 2 years ago
I start DCA soon I heard bad things mainly to do with the fact that it's overpriced.But everyone says they are structured I like that if I don't have a set time to do something I will slack off so DCA is good for me. I'm going to the DCA in SFL it's paired up with Broward College that's why I'm going there,I can get a degree mixed in with flight school.I could of went to FIU and a local FBO which would be hard for me to juggle both + a job so BC+DCA is a good deal and my credits transfer to UF
jcool411 2 years ago
@jcool411
Hey im there right now.
elmataplata 2 years ago
Flying is expensive. I go to a local FBO and learned in a G1000 172. Now I fly their straight tail because it's cheap.
i wish I would've bought an old 152 or 172 and done my private and instrument in that but that also his pitfalls.
Advice for newbies, stay close to home to save money and fly the cheapest thing you are comfortable in. ASEL is ASEL.
GingBread 2 years ago
I just started as an instructor and i took out a loan for 100,000 just in case I needed it... Right now I have spend 85k with living for 12 months
Starcon88 3 years ago
85K for the first year!!!!! Good grief. I was looking at attending the Houston location but not for that kind of money! What do they pay the instructors if you don't mind me asking?
1hornet1 2 years ago
@1hornet1
They dont pay them crap, something like 15-20 bucks an hour but charge 57. Thanks to congress now every pilot will need ATP to fly under part 141. So us newbies are SOL. We have to find a way to get ATP and then get looking at 141 if we even care to stay there. I am considering going out of country if it gets too bad
elmataplata 2 years ago
lmao part 141 is a type of flight school im pretty sure you dont need and ATP to attend DCA the last time i checked lmao i think you met part 121 (airline carriers) buddy... and btw they congress has not passed that law yet it can take a year or 2untill that law is passed and put into action
xXGETR0CKEDxX 2 years ago
WOW. I got my 4 year degree and PPL-CFI for 65,000.....
ual777222 2 years ago
@Starcon88
85K? for flight training? That is almost as much as going to college. Seriously, overpriced.
marick626 1 year ago
hey i know u, i use to see you all the time in the LRC...LOL
i left dca with commerical rating, i dont think its a "good school". instructors are charging random briefing times. the stage check pilots are assholes about 80% of them are at lease.
element4life24 3 years ago
DCA is a nice place for Standz and procedure. After leaving there with a CFI, I landed a decend job in CA. However, most of the people I know here are from ATP. They are making the same money as I do, but spent 1/3 of the time.. with about 20% less.. plus 2 more instructor rating.
I think its your call, a cheap fast track, or an expensive good procedure training. They all end in the same spot..
ken2580 3 years ago 3
The ONLY good thing I can say about DCA is if you are willing to put up with all their bold faced lies and continually spending almost twice the amount of money they say is required, the education you get out of it is actually one of the best. But don't fall for their rhetoric that DCA is the only or even the best way to get a job at a regional airline.
XB70Playboy 3 years ago
hey
Id like to know how much will it cost to become an airliner pilot there??thank you
m1r3o 3 years ago
DCA's scripted answer: "That all depends on you." Delta Connection Academy's repeated mantra is "Never be specific about how much anything is going to cost. Place full responsibility upon the students shoulders."
If you totally suck as a pilot, they will let you pour as much money as you are crazy enough to pour into it and then maybe after you've spent $20,000 and still no private sit you down for a "are-you-sure-flying-airplanes-is-for-you? Socratic session.
XB70Playboy 3 years ago
Failing only 1 check-ride (CFI) I went all the way through the program at the Broward College location. When I walked in the door they hit me with estimates as low as $21,664 and as high as $27,160. When I had finished I had spent $43,121. They billed getting your Private as a 1 semester "primary flight" class. 3 months. It took me 9 combined months of flying. Not normal? (cont.)
XB70Playboy 3 years ago
...Actually quite normal. "Getting your PPL should cost around $7500 and take the better part of a year." Source AOPA Flight Training Magazine Nov. 2002.
In 2002 I caught one of the directors in a lie when he told me after returning from 3 months away that I had to go back 4 or 5 lessons and fly them all over because the FAA was making them, make me, do it. I called the FAA. They told me this was not true since it is a Part 141 program, DCA has complete control over their own curriculum.
XB70Playboy 3 years ago
I am half way through commercial and I am happy where I am... I love the school and its mission. I love the management too, if you have a problem and bring it to them it will be worked out.
Starcon88 3 years ago
it's not DCA it's DCGay. It's a gay school. Can be get trained for 40K anywhere else if you're not dumb.
matt12350 3 years ago
im looking at schools and i want to be an airline pilot, i dont think the military road is the way for me. so what other way could i take? i fly on flight simulator at home and everything i know a lot. but i wanna be there some day instead of looking at it (cockpit)
deutz21 3 years ago
$100,000 for everybody crap pilot my ars.You will watch it add up!! Plus Interest. Can't wait till you have to live on first year pay. Leave that place as soon as you can!! You don't need dca anymore. Don't believe the b.s. from your instructors or the drop out recruiters.
kefster00 3 years ago
Indeed. In addition, DCA lives on the promise of giving you AN INTERVIEW with regional airlines. This "Interview" can be had by almost anyone who isn't a check-ride failing junky. The real test of if you get "the job" or not comes if you can keep up with the hectic pace of SIC. and type rating training at the airline you get on with. What's more, in a world where the average CFI's hourly is $25-$30, DCA is only paying $14 and they don't have a death benefit or health insurance available.
XB70Playboy 3 years ago
What's more, don't get all hypnotized by the flight benefits carrot they dangle in front of you. Sure, you might have them, but at $14/hr. unless you have frnds or fam. where you are flying to YOU CAN'T STAY. Sure you can fly to Tokyo for free but you can't afford to pay for a single night in a hotel there, so why even go? Free first class tickets? NO WAY. First they over book every flight these days, then offer $50 upgrades to all the passengers. IF a seat remains, then you get it.
XB70Playboy 3 years ago 2
100k? their partnered with my local college (broward) and people have gone all the way to CFII for about 50k. I'm going to be joining them by the end of the year.
felix954 3 years ago
o alrite...cool!!!!!!!!!!!!
CT2011MBS 3 years ago
I got there info packet, it is pricy but it seems like it would be worth eery penny
CT2011MBS 3 years ago
It is. The only thing that sets Delta Connection apart from other schools is the type & style of training. You are being trained for the airlines, everything we do, talk, and look at and even work with is similar to exactly like the airlines.
The knowledge when you leave this school is a big thing. I know people that came from FBO, part 61 and even 141 training and they don't even know half of what we get trained to. I know what I could be spending some where else, but I'm staying right here
Starcon88 3 years ago
That School is a RIP OFF!!! Waste of moeny!! $100,000. I can't wait to see your last video.
kefster00 3 years ago
Its only 100k if you are one crap ass pilot & keep failing & don't know how to budget!!! DCA has it advantages and disadvantages just like all schools.
Starcon88 3 years ago
why do you fly cirrus' at the delta connection academey?
N605JB 3 years ago
There extremely safe... I mean come on they have parachutes!?!? lol also to familiarize you with automation, its very important know how to work different systems & you have to be on top of things and fast... things happen faster in a cirrus than a 172
Starcon88 3 years ago
have you had flying experience before that?
N605JB 3 years ago
I didn't build anytime before DCA but I did fly 172s.
Starcon88 3 years ago
Cirrus is having so many problems with the Avadyne PFD/MFD set up in the SR20/22 that they are now changing over to the Garmon G1000 glass cockpit. Cessna has had the G1000 glass cockpit standard in the C172 for 2 years now. The SR20 is indeed a far more precise airplane to fly, but, what's the procedure for recovering from a spin? "Pull the chute." The SR20 is not spin rated. Furhter, while on my FAA CFIi check-ride, the engine just stopped shortly after touching down. New SR20. JUST STOPPED.
XB70Playboy 3 years ago
Yeah its called the approach checklish... Fuel Pump ON... The Avadyne is not a bad system and the reason Cirrus used it was to keep cost down for the consumer... The new cirrus with perspective (G1000) costs ALOT MORE!!! DCA is what you make of it, I don't suck so I like it there.
Starcon88 3 years ago
wow great video Kurt. at 0:15 i see u got a pic of our class but unfortunatly Bill is in the way of me getting in this pic. lol Awesome video
Rath316 3 years ago
nice video
what song is that?
DeveloperJermaine 3 years ago
The song is by AlterBridge, Rise Today
Starcon88 3 years ago
Kurt wtf man?!! Your class screwed ours!!! anthony likes men
sportsstuff87 3 years ago
Nice work. Five of five stars.
N734LQ 3 years ago
this is anthony btw
Ginja1 3 years ago
lol kurt, you should have known i would find this vid. guess what its a montage competition now! that was decent looking partial panel approach though.
Ginja1 3 years ago
awesome vid, man! I'm soon to be a student there at DCA starting in September. I'll be there in a few weeks to tour and enroll... I'm so excited... you guys seem to be having fun there, and I can't wait to be a part of the DCA family!
CaptainJoseph 3 years ago