Those were the days............

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musky

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Attached is a scanned page from a flying magazine dated September 5 1981. The total cost of going from 0 hours to Commercial for a school in Fort Worth's Meacham Airport, at the time was only $9975! This cost included time building, IFR and multi engine!

What a great deal, compared to todays standards!
 

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musky said:
Attached is a scanned page from a flying magazine dated September 5 1981. The total cost of going from 0 hours to Commercial for a school in Fort Worth's Meacham Airport, at the time was only $9975! This cost included time building, IFR and multi engine!

What a great deal, compared to todays standards!
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That would be just over $24k in today's dollars.... still not bad.
 
In '77 I started for my Pvt. $8/hr to the CFI, $16 wet for a C-150. I was making $5.58/hr as a newly hired QA chemist and saving like you can't believe.
 
My first job was at little ceasars pizza. I made $3.25/hr. My uncle was the manager, which was a very bad thing. I was on beotch duty all the time. (borat voice) Go do this, go do dat!!!
 
What's up with the ad on the bottom left? Did they really only train Whitey? That could have saved us a 9/11 (I kid)
 
mrivc211 said:
My first job was at little ceasars pizza. I made $3.25/hr. My uncle was the manager, which was a very bad thing. I was on beotch duty all the time. (borat voice) Go do this, go do dat!!!
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Perhaps we was doing that to you because you are strong and good on plow.
~D
 
RICHARD5 said:
In '77 I started for my Pvt. $8/hr to the CFI, $16 wet for a C-150. I was making $5.58/hr as a newly hired QA chemist and saving like you can't believe.
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I remember one of my DPEs telling me about training costs way back in the 50s or so. The Piper cub was $5/hr, the Tri-Pacer was $6, and if you were really rich you could afford the Super Cub at $7.
 
minitour said:
I bet you got pissed when gas went over $.25/gallon. :rotfl:

-mini
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har har

I do remember seeing gas at 24 cents at a Sinclair as a kid traveling across the midwest. The first time I got pissed at gas prices was filling my sister's Gran Turino...cost me more than $20. Low lead went to $1.15 IIRC.

Anyway, apparently y'all missed it...a CFI earning more than a chemist. That's right! Them were the days.
 
mrivc211 said:
.... (borat voice) Go do this, go do dat!!!
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"anna whenna you done do-ah everything else! and Hurry up you soma-of-a-beetch!"

Then you have to ask for your paycheck and they look at you like you are robbing them.

sigh.


I feel your pain.

:bandit:

b.
 
Murdoughnut said:
What's up with the ad on the bottom left? Did they really only train Whitey? That could have saved us a 9/11 (I kid)
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I think they meant they train for both FAA and JAA certificates. If I'm looking at the same part of the page. I think I would have been stoked if there was a place where they rented out a king air as well...especially for 78 Pounds an hour. Unfortunately, as you read further into that middle ad, you see that they do their training in apaches and tomahawks. Boo...but extra points for a good name that gets somebody's attention.
 
I've had a lot of old timers tell me that they could fly for free by simply washing and cleaning the airplane. Sadly, I haven't been lucky enough to find that kind of deal where I am at. I'd make it shine!
 
There was an Anglo-American Academy in San Diego..they've rebranded as American Aviation but when I flew out of KSEE it was full of students who had no business being out in the sun with less than SPF 100.

I paid about $20,000 in 1999 for PVT-COMM plus a turbine transition class at Simcom. The other day I was talking with an ATP grad..he is in the hole for almost 80K. Granted he got 100 more hrs twin than I but I don't have a loan payment.
 
I paid ~$8000-$9000 total for PPL-Instrument-ME comm-SE comm in 1991. It seemed like a lot of money to me at the time.
 
Back in high school, I got my private for less than $2,000.

Hell, I didn't even break a triple digit bill for flight instruction until I did a long dual cross country!

...songs that made the hit paraaaaade...those were the days....and you knew where you were then, girls were girls and men were men...
 
This thread makes me really regret not starting my training in high school. I thought it was expensive back then and now 8 years later its triple the cost and I still don't have a single hour under my belt :(
 
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