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Originally Posted by Winni-Retired
I soloed on my 16th birthday out of north central airport in RI, on 31 dec 1962.
My training plane was a top winged Piped Colt, PA-106. The cost was $12.00 per hour solo or $16,00 with instructor... That included fuel
I worked after school packing toys at Hassenfeld Bros (Hasbro -- today) to get money to pay for flight training.
I bet I washed a thousand planes ---or so it seems to earn money or co-pilot seat time as I trained for my private license.
It was sort of odd to have a pilots license but not a drivers licence for most of my junior year in high school... no money to get car insuranc = no drivers licence.
But as a 17 year old high school senior, with a private pilots licence and the ability to rent a pretty new Cherokee 140, I really could offer a different type of Saturday night date.
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I took my "FAA Check Ride" with
Gene Bulicki (SP) out of North Central. He was probably +/- 65 years old at that time. He was tough. He would tell me to do a certain maneuver ...and I would do it....I was totally confident I had done it correctly. Out of the corner of my eye I could see him shaking his head from side to side, As IN..are you serious..?? I passed.
