Deciding to Begin Flight Training

Flight Training: The Most Important Decision You’ll Ever Make

Every pilot has a day when he or she realizes that choosing to pursue flight training would go down as one of the pivotal decisions in his or her lifetime. Life demands that most of us must work for a living. If we are lucky, work will be the thing that we do second or third most, after spending time with our family and sleeping. Some of us may have one or a few jobs for a very long time, while others will have many jobs, bouncing around from place to place. A job is what we spend our days doing. A job is composed of tasks and duties that must be performed. A career, on the other hand, is our life’s work. It is what we spend years and decades doing. It is composed of memories and friendships and challenges and rewards and massive transformations, and it is how many of us define ourselves. Ask a pilot what he does. “I am a pilot,” he or she will reply. Flight training is what gave him or her an answer to that question.

Upper Limit Aviation is in the career business. We help pilots get their start doing what they will do for the rest of their lives. Many of our students feel as if they were born knowing that they were destined to one day fly a fixed-wing aircraft or a helicopter for a living. Others among our ranks were inspired by their own military service, or the example of a mentor or family friend. Whatever brings a student to our school, we make sure that he or she is a pilot, through and through, when he or she leaves flight training.

Upper Limit Aviation Helps Pilots Become Pilots Through Flight Training

There are many articles on this website that will tell you what a terrific time it is to become a pilot. Or how many different sorts of wonderful careers there are for professional pilots who complete flight training. Or explain how the Post 9/11 GI Bill works. All of those articles are full of true and enlightening information, and you should absolutely refer to them in order to learn more detailed information about the flight training program at Upper Limit Aviation.

This article is not full of facts or statistics or prognostications. This article is here to tell you that if you feel like we feel, that if you want to answer the question ‘What do you do?’ by saying, ‘I am a pilot,’ then come and join us. We understand you and can help you do what you love for a living for the rest of your life.

Call 1-855-HELIEDU to learn more.

Ways Pilots Can Earn an Associates Degree

How Professional Pilots Can Earn an Associates Degree

Upper Limit Aviation is committed to the success of our students. One of the best ways that we can extend the benefits of our program to our students is by encouraging them to utilize the added value contributed by the schools we have partnered with by earning an associate degree. A college degree has long been a part of the set of qualifications that many employers use to determine who may be an ideal candidate to work in a given position. Many pilots forgo the opportunity to further their education beyond the minimum requirements for what is expected to obtain an entry-level pilot job. While this strategy will work for many pilots, there is a lot to be said for adding extra education to your skill set and knowledge base.

Upper Limit Aviation has chosen its partners schools wisely. The schools that we have partnered with offer students the chance to participate in a truly beneficial scholastic program that will enhance their experience and knowledge as professional pilots by allowing them to earn an associate of science or an associate of applied science degree.

Students studying to become a helicopter or fixed-wing pilot at our West Memphis, AR campus can simultaneously enroll at Mid-South Community College, allowing them not only to earn a college degree, but also to have access to further funding opportunities that may not be available to students who do not choose the college route.

While military veterans may have the ability to use the Post 9/11 GI Bill’s benefits in order to secure a deeply discounted or free education, private citizens may have an easier time securing funding to attend our program by concurrently enrolling in one of our partner college programs. After all, if the byproduct of securing funding more easily is that you wind up with a college degree on top of your flight training, thus making you a more qualified and more employable pilot, what’s the harm?

To find out how Upper Limit Aviation can help you earn an associate degree while pursuing your flight training, call 1-855-HELIEDU.

The Value of Having a Degree for ULA Students

Bachelor’s Degrees Add Value for Upper Limit Aviation Professional Pilot Students

Upper Limit Aviation is motivated to create opportunities for students that will provide them with the most benefit. We believe that by partnering with the schools with whom we have formed an alliance, we are extending those opportunities and offering an enhanced experience that will help students attain achievement beyond what they would be able to accomplish with flight training alone. We have every confidence in the world that the training we provide is the best training that we could possibly offer our students, but we recognize that students need a competitive edge when it comes time to seek a career in the aviation industry. Upper Limit Aviation is proud to offer students the chance to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in addition to their flight training when they are concurrently enrolled at Southern Utah University in our Cedar City, UT program.

A Bachelor’s Degree is one of the main qualifications that many of today’s top employers look for when evaluating a candidate’s value against another applicant. Many pilots assume they are exempt from these sorts of evaluations due to the fact that they have their professional pilot credentials. But Upper Limit Aviation recognizes what employers are trying to determine when they are choosing between two candidates to fill a position.

How A Bachelor’s Degree Can Distinguish One Professional Pilot From Another

We believe that the best pilots are the product of the best education they can receive. While flight training is unquestionably the main component of what should qualify a pilot to perform his job, a solid educational foundation to support that training can go a long way toward helping a student prove his mettle. A bachelor’s degree is demonstrative of commitment and work ethic in addition to indicating a higher level of education.

Helping students attain success is the mission of Upper Limit Aviation. We feel that the best way we can do that is to offer students the richest educational experience we can secure for them. The training they will receive at ULA combined with the education they will receive at one of our partner schools will help them achieve lifelong success.

To find out more about professional pilot opportunities including how you can earn a bachelor’s degree and complete your flight training at the same time, call 1-855-HELIEDU.

Southern Utah University Becoming Partners with ULA

ULA Partnership With Southern Utah University (SUU)

We are very excited about our newly formed partnership with Southern Utah University. We have been working very hard to bring about this exciting new alliance. As our students know, and as any prospective students will be happy to learn, we do our absolute best to make sure that we can offer the best programs to our professional pilot students. The partnership that we have formed with SUU will allow us to transform many more student lives by helping them achieve success through lifelong careers in aviation.

Southern Utah University is located in Cedar City, UT. There are many reasons why this alliance will provide huge benefits to our students. SUU is an excellent school in terms of academics with a variety of programs that have helped shaped many student lives for the better. Upper Limit Aviation will be able to offer the opportunity for students to concurrently enroll in classes at SUU in order to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree while pursuing their flight training.

How the ULA and SUU Partnership Will Enhance Opportunities for Students

The aviation industry is currently enjoying an all-time high for job growth, but every advantage an applicant has when starting out can greatly enhance his or her prospects for success. Many pilots will leave their training program with a pilot’s license that will enable them to get a good job, but graduates of our aligned program will have a college degree that adds significant benefit to their prospects to achieve high-flying success right out of the gate.

Southern Utah University is working with Upper Limit Aviation to make admissions for veterans (using the benefits of the Post 9/11 GI Bill) and private citizens (utilizing a combination of public and private financing) work as smoothly as possible.

We truly believe that this union will allow us to offer a higher degree of training, and thereby strengthen our ability to offer the best chance of success for our students.

To learn more about the opportunities available to students of our SUU-partnered program, call Upper Limit Aviation today at 1-855-HELIEDU.

Helicopter Industry Needs Professional Pilots

Helicopter Industry Needs Professional Pilots

Over the course of the last few years, the helicopter industry has expanded by an unprecedented magnitude. There are literally more jobs available than there are qualified pilots who can fulfill them. The roles have been reversed for today’s future pilots. It used to be that one completed their training and fought tooth and nail against their peers in order to obtain a good job. Now, many employers are proactively seeking the best graduates in order to fill an increasing number of job vacancies.

Upper Limit Aviation has a reputation for excellence, not only among our alumni, but also in the industry at large. We receive phone calls from many of the helicopter industry’s top recruiters looking for qualified applicants.

Steps Taken By Upper Limit Aviation to Help Train Excellent Professional Pilots

Upper Limit Aviation has taken every step possible to ensure that the professional helicopter pilot training we offer can prepare all of our graduates for a wealth of opportunities. We focus on safety, knowledge and mastery in the cockpit.

The steps that we have taken to make sure that we are offering what we feel is the best training available has directly led to the reputation that we enjoy. Our professional pilot graduates benefit from the steps built into our training that take our students beyond the minimum requirements that graduates of some other schools attain. We believe that only working towards the minimum requirements is part of a race to the bottom that we simply cannot take part in.

Does that mean that our helicopter students (and instructors) have to work a little harder? It does. But the added benefit of experience, preparedness and sheer know-how possessed by our graduates results in more desirable positions starting out, and ultimately more satisfying careers.

To learn how Upper Limit Aviation has established and maintained a 100% employment rate for our professional pilot graduates, call 1-855-HELIEDU.

High Altitude Flight Training at ULA’s Southern Utah University

High Altitude Training Opportunities

Today’s aviation industry is highly competitive. We believe that if a pilot is going to stand out from his peers as the ideal candidate to fill a position, it’s going to be the pilot with superior training. We have based our whole program on training pilots to the level of mastery in all of the basic areas of flight. But we have also gone much further than that in conceiving of how we can offer the best possible flight training experience to our students.

SUU Offers an Advantage to those Seeking High Altitude Flight Training

We have designed our programs to have built-in benefits that may not be found at many other schools. In addition to being an excellent institution of higher learning, Southern Utah University (SUU) is situated, in beautiful Cedar City, UT, at an elevation of 5,622 feet. What that means is that when our students take off, they reach a higher altitude very quickly, and are able to perform training routines that may not be performed as readily at some other schools.

Our partnership with SUU has been in the works for a long time. The elevation, the reputation, and many other factors have combined to create a perfect storm of opportunity for our students. We put a lot of work into making sure that each of our programs offers a consistent educational experience, but have sought out locations and partnerships that may offer particular advantages to student pilots seeking particular experience to benefit their skill set if they have a particular area of interest. High altitude flight training is a tremendous benefit to students seeking a competitive advantage.

Our campus in Salt Lake City, UT (SLCC) offers the best of both worlds for students interested in both mountain flying and urban settings. Similarly, our campus in West Memphis, AR (MSCC) is located near to the Gulf, which is home to a rising number of opportunities for pilots seeking work in the offshore oil industry.

The bottom line is that high altitude flight training at SUU is just another one of the many advantages that students at Upper Limit Aviation can expect when they sign up to earn their professional pilot’s license with us. Call 1-855-HELIEDU to learn more about high altitude training opportunities.