They Have An Aviation School For High School Students Here….

They will teach them to fly small planes by their junior year. Just something else to think and worry about when I see small planes from the airport flying over this neighborhood. One of the boy’s friends is enrolled this year and he’s only 14.

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Confined · 56-60, M

My brother had a pilots license before he had a drivers license.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Confined yeah that’s what those kids are saying, they’ll be able to fly before they can drive

Confined · 56-60, M

@cherokeepatti Hard to believe there really is no age limit to a pilots license, but have to be 16 to drive......at least when I was growing up.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Confined I don’t know how much it will cost the parent for this program or if the school is absorbing the cost or whatever. It’s not cheap flying a plane.

Confined · 56-60, M

@cherokeepatti He learned in NJ teterboro airport. I guess it was not cheap. He still flies to this day.

rfatoday · 70-79, M

@Confined When I was 19 my brother got his pilots license at 17, circa 1975. He was a superb pilot. Never at any time did I feel a need to question his abilities. After he got checked out in a Cessna 172 we took mom up and a friend of his. He did zero-g's and freaked out mom. Was kind of funny. She regained her composure and laughed with the rest of us. He went into the Air Force after HS but could not fly due to eyesight back then. I think he'd have been a great pilot in the service.

Confined · 56-60, M

@rfatoday I went up with a lesson one day. The instructor was a family friend he worked for Eastern at the time. We got up in the air and it started storming. We were tossed all over and returned to the airport a short time later. Was the scarest flight I have ever been on.
I went on another flight and they had to do a Stall. Yikes.
Years later we go out to CA to visit. He took us to Catalina Island. Like landing on a postage stamp. Freaked my parents out. I had no worries after what I have been through.