What did it take to get a ticket in 1946?

I recently found my mother's name in the FAA registry as a PP-SEL.

I knew she had taken lessons and she had a Piper Cub solo certificate, but
I was unclear if she had gone all the way to the certificate. It's pretty
cool to find out your mother was a pilot.

I'm trying to envision what the program was like in 1946... I'm guessing
it was much simpler not having to deal with mountains of FARs, airspace,
electronic navigation or even radio.

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?

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Dallas

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:12:53 -0600, Dallas
wrote:


I recently found my mother's name in the FAA registry as a PP-SEL.

I knew she had taken lessons and she had a Piper Cub solo certificate, but
I was unclear if she had gone all the way to the certificate. It's pretty
cool to find out your mother was a pilot.

I'm trying to envision what the program was like in 1946... I'm guessing
it was much simpler not having to deal with mountains of FARs, airspace,
electronic navigation or even radio.

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?

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Dallas
Yeah.....find the airport on your own and start the plane.
Daveb

Dallas wrote:
I recently found my mother's name in the FAA registry as a PP-SEL.

I knew she had taken lessons and she had a Piper Cub solo certificate, but
I was unclear if she had gone all the way to the certificate. It's pretty
cool to find out your mother was a pilot.

I'm trying to envision what the program was like in 1946... I'm guessing
it was much simpler not having to deal with mountains of FARs, airspace,
electronic navigation or even radio.

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?

No, but I picked up a 1948 logbook at the
flea market and leafed through it. The only
difference I noted was spin training early
on.

Jim Stewart wrote in
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Dallas wrote:
I recently found my mother's name in the FAA registry as a PP-SEL.

I knew she had taken lessons and she had a Piper Cub solo
certificate, but I was unclear if she had gone all the way to the
certificate. It's pretty cool to find out your mother was a pilot.

I'm trying to envision what the program was like in 1946... I'm
guessing it was much simpler not having to deal with mountains of
FARs, airspace, electronic navigation or even radio.

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?

No, but I picked up a 1948 logbook at the
flea market and leafed through it. The only
difference I noted was spin training early
on.


Yeah, much of the stuff students are learning nowadays is straight out of
the need for training pilots and lots of 'em for WW2.


if it ain't broke...


Bertie

Dallas wrote:

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?


I don't know what the exact requirements were, but I do know that it was
much simpler back then. An old friend of mine got his ticket in the late
'40s and he was surprised at the amount of book learnin' and flying I had to
do to get my ticket 40 yrs. later.

I remember looking at his logbook and seeing his first solo on the 4th
entry, after 3.5 hrs of instruction in an Ercoupe.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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I just looked at my father's log book ( a very treasured possession ) and he
got his private in 3 months with 27 hours in 1947.

John
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Dallas wrote:

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?


I don't know what the exact requirements were, but I do know that it was
much simpler back then. An old friend of mine got his ticket in the late
'40s and he was surprised at the amount of book learnin' and flying I had
to
do to get my ticket 40 yrs. later.

I remember looking at his logbook and seeing his first solo on the 4th
entry, after 3.5 hrs of instruction in an Ercoupe.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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* I remember looking at his logbook and seeing his first solo on the 4th
entry, after 3.5 hrs of instruction in an Ercoupe.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


3.5 Hah! Can't beat that today. At some point back then the written
was only 25 true / false questions (according to Dick Collins on one
of his videos).

I must be a chicken-sheet. I don't think I'd WANT to solo at 3.5
hours. Could've with a gun at my head. But woudn't have otherwise. I
did at 12.5 and thought, "Hell, it won't be long before I've got that
certificate in the bag."

Wrong again. WRONG AGAIN.

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:36:29 GMT, "JGalban via AviationKB.com"
u32749@uwe wrote:

I remember looking at his logbook and seeing his first solo on the 4th
entry, after 3.5 hrs of instruction in an Ercoupe.

A Piper Cub dealer would fly a plane to some field near a small city
and round up the doctors and lawyers and car dealers, plus one high
school athlete. He would solo the youngster that afternoon. "See how
easy it is?" he would say, and sell the adults the Cub on the spot for
$2600, then take the train home and fetch another Cub from Lock Haven
and repeat the process somewhere else.

That may have been more common before the war than after.

("the war": the unpleasantness between 1941 and 1945)

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

Dallas wrote:

I recently found my mother's name in the FAA registry as a PP-SEL.

I knew she had taken lessons and she had a Piper Cub solo certificate, but
I was unclear if she had gone all the way to the certificate. It's pretty
cool to find out your mother was a pilot.

I'm trying to envision what the program was like in 1946... I'm guessing
it was much simpler not having to deal with mountains of FARs, airspace,
electronic navigation or even radio.

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?

Take todays requirements.

Subtract anything to do with electronics and radios.

Subtract anything to do with airspace, ATC and IFR.

Add spin training.

Add hand proping.

That's pretty much it; there isn't much about flying airplanes that
has changed.


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Jim Pennino

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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:25:04 GMT, wrote:

Subtract anything to do with airspace, ATC and IFR.

What about subtract most of the weather products? They didn't have
satellites and weather radar or the computers to distribute the
information.

Did they even have FSS?


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Dallas