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Local High school to offer free pilots license to selected students

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1964-M20E Grand Master

1964-M20E

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This is great.

 

I’m not sure about today but many years ago as a cadet in CAP I could have gotten my PPL for fuel costs alone.  Utilize the CAP plane with CFIs who were senior members donating their time.  I was a fool not to take advantage of it at the time but at the time I didn’t have the $ to buy fuel.

rbridges Grand Master

rbridges

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This is great.

 

I’m not sure about today but many years ago as a cadet in CAP I could have gotten my PPL for fuel costs alone.  Utilize the CAP plane with CFIs who were senior members donating their time.  I was a fool not to take advantage of it at the time but at the time I didn’t have the $ to buy fuel.

 

that was probably when fuel was <$1/gallon, too.  oh well, hindsight is always 20/20.  

mike_elliott Grand Master

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Come on guys.....join the Air Force, learn to fly in high performance planes, AND get paid for it. :)

That's what my son told me when I joined CAP once. He questioned my sanity to pay to put up with bureaucracy , when I could have just signed up and been paid for the privy. :)

1964-M20E Grand Master

1964-M20E

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Come on guys.....join the Air Force, learn to fly in high performance planes, AND get paid for it. :)

I tried that as well  but the USAF or any others did not have a pilot slot for me when I was in college.  :(

Hank Grand Master

Hank

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Come on guys.....join the Air Force, learn to fly in high performance planes, AND get paid for it. :)

 

Nah, I wanted to be a PILOT! So I went Navy ROTC and bombed the flight physical for less-than-perfect vision.  :angry:

 

Discovered GA a decade later, just in time to lose my CFI to corporate aviation and buy my first house.  :(  Another decade and I started looking, then finally went back right after throwing away my logbook and instruction book. But I still remember that old Beech Skipper!

Marauder Grand Master

Marauder

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Come on guys.....join the Air Force, learn to fly in high performance planes, AND get paid for it. :)

LOL! Unfortunately most don't read the fine print. They sure get disappointed when then end up flying oil burner routes in a C-130. :(

Hank Grand Master

Hank

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LOL! Unfortunately most don't read the fine print. They sure get disappointed when then end up flying oil burner routes in a C-130. :(

 

A college buddy ended up being a BUFF Navigator. He "enjoyed" 14-hour training flights, terrain following through the Rockies at 500' agl, sitting downstairs in his rocket-powered ejection seat. Can't imagine what the post-flight briefing would be like after a 14-hour flight, to say nothing of the preflight briefing. Hope they had lots of coffee and an effective method to get rid of used coffee on board . . . At least USAF ground facilities are usually very nice.

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rbridges Grand Master

rbridges

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Come on guys.....join the Air Force, learn to fly in high performance planes, AND get paid for it. :)

 

I'm sure they're looking for 44 year old out of shape recruits to fly their jets.   :D

fantom Grand Master

fantom

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LOL! Unfortunately most don't read the fine print. They sure get disappointed when then end up flying oil burner routes in a C-130. :(

MUCH better than sitting at a desk shuffling forms and suffering paper cuts or bing a radar navigator in a B-52 BUFF ;)

DrBill Mentor

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My student assistant is in the Air Force learning to fly fighters.   He was near the top of his class in ROTC.  That's what it takes. When I graduated I tried for Navy but I was not ROTC and did not get a flight offer (had my pilots license already).  I got mine for about $1000 in 1970 working for flying time at the local airport.  I had enought time in the bank that I took a plane to school for 3 months during the winter !

 BILL

 

Sonic Rookie

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Wish it had been around back in the day . . . .

 

I actually earned my PPL in a C-152 that my high school owned. Cost me $10-12/hr and the IP was on the school faculty, so no cost there.  There was a program in the 70's (60's?..not certain on timelines) that helped start up such programs and there were actually a couple in the area (N Calif).  Ours was the last standing, I think, and it shut down very shortly after I graduated.  As I understand it, the insurance premiums got out of  control. 

 

...then I joined the AF.

 

I'm glad there are still some opportunities like this out there.

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