CaptainMorgan92

I haven't flown the Cirrus or Phenom. The fleet changed in the last two years and you stop flying after your junior year if you don't CFI. My primary aircraft was the Piper Warrior III with conventional gauges, but it did have a Garmin 430 that we were able to use after the first semester. For my turbine flights, I flew the Beechcraft Super King Air. It's a twin turbo-prop that seats 12, with conventional gauges as well. As far as simulators which you get heavy into junior and senior year, we had 727-100 and 727-200 sims. Both of those are going now, replaced with a Phenom and a CRJ-700 Sim. We don't have the Phenom sim yet, but I'm in the CRJ sim this semester. It's a highly automated glass cockpit, but it's not bad for learning to manipulate FMS computers and advanced autopilots. I have glass time on my own from home in 172's and DA-40's. My roommate instructs in the Cirrus. He says it's super nice and easy to fly, but probably not the best for learning fundamentals.

It's fine, I don't mind answering questions. The scholarship does cover flight fees. It covers all classes required to graduate. That is different from Air Force and Army, where they do have to pay their flight fees.

Yeah I'm on scholarship. You have to get it by the end of your junior year to continue in the program, but I came in with one as well. Freshman O isn't bad. You will be stressed and exhausted, but that's the point. It gets shorter every year, I think it's down to 4 days now, so there's only so much you can do in that time. It's mostly just actual training you need to function in the battalion, with yelling and running in between. I'm sure you'll get a basic schedule overview of it before you show up. There's really nothing you need to prepare for other than show up in shape. If you're able to do better than the minimums on the PFA, you're off to a good start.

It is a small world. As far as I can know there's at least one other flight/NROTC guy on here too. Congrats on earning that scholarship, they're getting harder to come by. NROTC keeps you busy, but it's a good group of friends and it gives you one of a kind opportunities. Flight is a lot of fun up front and excellent training. The only downside is you pretty much stop actually flying your junior year if you don't get your CFI and instruct. Overall though, both are really incredible programs.

I see you're planning to come to the NROTC Battalion at Purdue? I'm a 1/C in it, graduating in May with a professional flight degree. Just figured I'd say hello.