Love the nostalgia of bygone eras, near the end are some beautiful examples of what we are still flying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGEgJ2ZOTRY

great video! the golden age of flight! i love the old birds, so much character and class!

also john check your inbox, i sent you a message a week or so ago

Timbo

Interesting to see how little things have changed over the 60 years since this was made (we can have a debate about whether that's good or bad).

In the video, as today:

o It's the fat cats that have the flying offices
o Flight instruction seems to have changed *very* little (except what the customer wears, the CFI seems to dress exactly the same (badly))
o The flying car is just around the corner.

The dollars have sure changed, though: $500 to the checkride (if the movie is accurate) then; $10,000 now. So have the realistic times: 40 hours then (per regs then and now), but it probably actually took longer then, and most people take a lot longer now.

Cary

Cary wrote:The dollars have sure changed, though: $500 to the checkride (if the movie is accurate) then; $10,000 now. So have the realistic times: 40 hours then (per regs then and now), but it probably actually took longer then, and most people take a lot longer now.

$500 in 1953 is worth $4,300 today. Which is actually better than I expected it to be. I came in at about $8,000 for my private and that $500 was worth $3,900 in 2009, so about double what it cost in 1953.