40 years ago

Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the first
student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

Cheers
H.

ex 502TB, 739CD, 2196B

On Apr 30, 8:25 pm, "H. Adam Stevens"
wrote:
Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the first
student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

Cheers
H.

ex 502TB, 739CD, 2196B

Passed my checkride 30 years ago, May 6, 1977. 150's were going for
$16 wet then.
--
Gene Seibel
Tales of Flight - http://pad39a.com/gene/tales.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.

"H. Adam Stevens" wrote in message
...
Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the
first student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

Cheers
H.

ex 502TB, 739CD, 2196B


Congrats on your 40th annaversary, lots of fond memories I'm sure.

I soloed at 7.3 hours, about 5 years later in 1972. Apparently I was getting
robbed. I was having to get $10/hr wet, and $15/hr for dual. I think avgas
was about 45 cents a gallon at that time.

On 30 Apr 2007 20:13:16 -0700, Gene Seibel wrote:

On Apr 30, 8:25 pm, "H. Adam Stevens"
wrote:
Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the first
student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

Cheers
H.

ex 502TB, 739CD, 2196B

Passed my checkride 30 years ago, May 6, 1977. 150's were going for
$16 wet then.

Back in '76, our CAP Citabria was going for $10/hour and the L-19 Bird Dog for
$13/hour. Wet, of course.

Ron Wanttaja

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ is interesting for things like this.
Some economists will argue with the numbers but it at least gives some
kind of indication. Since it doesn't yet go to 2007, I used 2006 as
the ending year and moved the start back a year for all of these.


H. Adam Stevens wrote:
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the
first student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

$7 in 1966 - $43 in 2006


Richard Riley wrote:
In 1967, my parent's house sold for $25,000. My dad bought a new
Chevy for about $2100, and a gallon of regular was about $.35.

$25,000 in 1966 - $150,000 in 2006
$2,100 in 1966 - $13,000 in 2006
$0.35 in 1966 - $2.20 in 2006


Gene Seibel wrote:
Passed my checkride 30 years ago, May 6, 1977. 150's were going for
$16 wet then.

$16 in 1976 - $58 in 2006


From: Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Back in '76, our CAP Citabria was going for $10/hour and the L-19 Bird
Dog for $13/hour. Wet, of course.

$10 in 1976 - $36 in 2006
$13 in 1976 - $47 in 2006


"Maxwell" wrote:
I soloed at 7.3 hours, about 5 years later in 1972. Apparently I was
getting robbed. I was having to get $10/hr wet, and $15/hr for dual.
I think avgas was about 45 cents a gallon at that time.

$10 in 1971 - $50 in 2006
$15 in 1971 - $75 in 2006
$0.45 in 1971 - $2.30 in 2006


Me, I only soloed about a month and a half ago, so I don't have any "Old
Fart" credentials.

Matt Roberds

("Richard Riley" wrote something I needed to look up)
....So. Cal real estate being an outlier


out·li·er (outlr) n.

1. One whose domicile lies at an appreciable distance from his or her place
of business.

2. A value far from most others in a set of data: "Outliers make
statistical analyses difficult" Harvey Motulsky.

3. Geology: A portion of stratified rock separated from a main formation
by erosion.


I'm going with # 3 ....for its none-too-subtle (subtextual) possibilities.


Montblack

H. Adam Stevens wrote:
Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150,
the first student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.



That's about the time I did the same, 9 hrs, C-150 N8722G..
Flew out of the now defunct Fairfax airport in Kansas City, Kansas,
presently a GM assembley plant..
Seem to remember dual was $15/hr.

48 years ago I soloed in the L-19 Bird Dog at 8.5 hours. I have no idea what
the fuel rate per gallon was--my "rich uncle" was paying the tab!! Of
course, he collected it from me over the next 20 years!!! :-)))))))))

Paul

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
...
On 30 Apr 2007 20:13:16 -0700, Gene Seibel wrote:

On Apr 30, 8:25 pm, "H. Adam Stevens"
wrote:
Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the
first
student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

Cheers
H.

ex 502TB, 739CD, 2196B

Passed my checkride 30 years ago, May 6, 1977. 150's were going for
$16 wet then.

Back in '76, our CAP Citabria was going for $10/hour and the L-19 Bird Dog
for
$13/hour. Wet, of course.

Ron Wanttaja

ManhattanMan wrote:
H. Adam Stevens wrote:

Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150,
the first student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.




That's about the time I did the same, 9 hrs, C-150 N8722G..
Flew out of the now defunct Fairfax airport in Kansas City, Kansas,
presently a GM assembley plant..
Seem to remember dual was $15/hr.



In 1970 I soloed from Hillside Airport, south of KCMO. $9.00/hr wet for
a C-150. I got my commercial in ~1973 at the Johnson County Airport (now
Executive) with the Johnson Co community college. C-172 were $16.00 hr
wet and the instructors were salaried, so there were no per hour
instructor charges. And I used to fill my '67 Buick Wildcat (430 CID)
with premium at $0.19/gal.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

Ross wrote:
ManhattanMan wrote:
H. Adam Stevens wrote:

Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150,
the first student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.




That's about the time I did the same, 9 hrs, C-150 N8722G..
Flew out of the now defunct Fairfax airport in Kansas City, Kansas,
presently a GM assembley plant..
Seem to remember dual was $15/hr.



In 1970 I soloed from Hillside Airport, south of KCMO. $9.00/hr wet
for a C-150. I got my commercial in ~1973 at the Johnson County
Airport (now Executive) with the Johnson Co community college. C-172
were $16.00 hr wet and the instructors were salaried, so there were
no per hour instructor charges. And I used to fill my '67 Buick
Wildcat (430 CID) with premium at $0.19/gal.

We used to go to Johnson Co. for touch & goes if Fairfax was busy - made my
all time worst landing there with my CFI practicing full flap short field
and bounced up so high I just hit the throttle for a go around. Really made
me a believer of the 150's main gear! d:-))