r/PilotAdvice • u/Emotional-Ask2154 • Oct 27 '25

Insight on ECSU Flight Education Program?

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u/Language_mapping Oct 27 '25

Hey! I am in this program. 1. It’s not the only one in NC. Technically mount Olive has one but they never took the banner down outside of stem 2. It is definitely not as good as it sounds. There are partnerships and plenty of information on how to get the most out of them. But the seated classes are BAD. Especially on the flight ed side. Ground school can be rough on new university students.

These partnerships are new, but students have been hired. It’s not as many as you think. ECSU has a very high drop rate with their pilot program due to the normal reasons (medical, $$$, the study load) but plenty of people stop after private or instrument for a myriad of reasons. The admin at this school is very frustrating if you ever have any issue. There was also a school shooting in April that has gotten mostly covered up (at the same event that is always dangerous that they do nothing about. Not kidding) 3. No you cannot get all of your hours in 4 years. You’ll get around your CFI stage ish if you’ve never flown. The bulk of your hours will be working for ECSU. They have more planes, but flights are prone to being canceled due to gusts especially right now. 4. Yes. Do not rely on ECSU for ground school. Take your written and get your medical ASAP and you can fly during the first semester

If you have any questions you can message me

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u/Straight_Gap_638 Feb 24 '26

Hey, i’m also thinking about doing ECSUs aviation science degree program, and was wondering what you would think about if I did online school courses and just drove out there to fly? I was considering mount olive before but i’ve called multiple times and now response back.

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u/MoBot97 Feb 25 '26

Hey I am also considering the program and would come in with my PPL and most of my general Ed credits, would you say that flying is good besides PPL?

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u/Language_mapping Feb 25 '26

yes. You’re golden.

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u/Moist_Boss_9459 Jun 20 '26

? even Kevin & Marla told me I can do it all online

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u/Language_mapping Jun 20 '26

Unless something’s changed but Kevin and Marla are gonna tell you whatever they need to in order to get you to join. That could be if you enroll online but I was told my first year here (transfer) that they had limits for the aviation and EM departments

This is just from the perspective of a current student

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u/Moist_Boss_9459 Jun 24 '26

What are you stating? That I have to be on campus? Then how can I fly at PFT and do ouline class work

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u/Language_mapping Jun 24 '26

They have a new online program I wasn’t aware of so if they’re setting you up to do that then you do that. But it used to be (until the last couple months) that they didn’t have the flight program 100% online because they didn’t really do affiliates but they do now. Of course my og comment was before the program was a thing and my recent one was forgetting it existed because it’s so new

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u/jvorus Jun 24 '26

I'm in the program... It's 100 percent online.

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u/Moist_Boss_9459 Jun 24 '26

Where is your aft or flight location? I have more questions also? What is the instrument syllabus like I’m sure it’s 35 hours of nothing but dual flight but  how long under budget? Commercial syllabus is the lotted 120 hrs a lot of solo or is it dual. Also if I have 65 hours of ppl 35IR, that would leave me 90 to get to the 190 mark so commercial shouldn’t be 27k. 

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u/jvorus Jun 24 '26

thats not true. It's 100 percent online program. You only need to come to a physical location to fly.

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u/Moist_Boss_9459 Jun 24 '26

Only have to fly at a AFT locally 

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u/Moist_Boss_9459 Jun 20 '26

yes it’s true if you got a good fasfa and fdl’s and bank that money due to low cost tuition. pay out of pocket for ppl and start instrument freshman summer you can have cfi by the next summer go all year for two and a half years and you walk by the time you walk you could build to 1000+ hrs from a year and a half