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Is this how little airplanes are created?

Haymore posted on 03/20/08 at 07:01 AM

 

Needed a touch of humor today.  At night two planes tried to land on the same runway at the same time with nearly perfect timing.

 

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Edited by Haymore at 10/07/08 at 03:20 PM
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Posted March 20, 2008 (09:49AM)
At 18 I started taking lessons in '84.  At that time rentals on little two-seaters were about $25-30 for an hour.  I remember a student crashing at the school where I was learning to fly.  It was in the winter, and snowplows had pushed up banks on both sides of the runways (in Oklahoma).  The kid who crashed had only about 13 hours or so, and had only recently soloed.  He landed and panicked after the nose wheel started vibrating (sort of like a car tire will if it's badly out of balance).  Instead of pulling back on the yoke to relieve pressure, he tried to keep it straight, only to see it head straight toward a snowbank on the edge of the runways.  It flipped, bending up the prop, and basically crushing it like an aluminum can.  He walked back to the hangar okay.  I don't remember if he finished out the program, but I do remember all the new students were practicing the next day with how to handle a vibrating nose wheel.
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Posted March 20, 2008 (10:06AM)

At 16 with an elective High School course I started taking lessons in the 50s, a 2 seater, fabric covered plane cost me $4.40/hr, ground school was done by the chemistry prof.  The tech students maintained the planes under supervision of a properly certified instructor.  The $4.40 broke down to $4 for fuel, oil & supplies & 40 cents for insurance.  Got all the way to solo on less than $600.

Now here in Phoenix 50% of the High Schools do not even have driver training courses. 

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Posted March 20, 2008 (11:19AM)

In Louisiana (at least in the northeast region), the driver training courses are taught by Physical Education teachers/coaches.  I wondered about that (as my daughter was taking "driver's ed") and then found the answer while working as an advisor at a local university.  A great many of the university's athletes will take driver's ed classes for easy-A Kinesiology credit.  Several of those athletes go on to work as high school coaches.

I cannot imagine how much fun it must have been to be able to learn to fly in high school.  It is frustrating that rental rates are so high now.  I've been to FBOs lately that won't even rent out a smaller plane than a C 172.  The local FBO charges about $100/hour for the $172. (That's of course not including any instructor fee.)

I think the general direction now is for student pilots to be pushed through on bare minimum hours. Not sure that's a great idea.  Plus can you imagine if all those post-GPS pilots had to navigate on VORs?  

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Posted March 20, 2008 (01:56PM)

Correction to post above:  Got all the way to solo for $60   13 hrs @ $4.40 = $57.20.

 

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Posted March 20, 2008 (06:27PM)

Have 40 hours or so, after 8 years of you know what in AVIATION no pilots license YET.

first lesson pull back on the yoke. I get close to the day of testing and then something happens in my career field. or the little school goes bankrupt. Can't catch a break, maybe it is a message from above, but I love to fly!!!

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Posted March 21, 2008 (04:47AM)

When I was younger I took up flying and even got an instrument rating, but the cost caused me to stop and have not done anything for years.  That  fabric covered plane looks great.  I bet that's really fun.  Several years ago I thought I would get back into it by taking a hang gliding class at OSU.  Unfortunately, our instructor was killed and the class was cancelled before we could try it out.

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