Student pilots find flying can be fun and profitable
Photo by Mike Frederick
Who me fly?
By SARAH DALE Kansan Staff Writer
Doug Meeker, Garden City junior, makes a final check of his plane before taking off at the Lawrence Airport.
Students appear to be taking an interest in flying for fun, for their futures or for a challenge.
To obtain a license students may take ground school through the University for three hours of credit a semester as did Doug Meeker, Garden City junior and student pilot, or they may take ground school through the airport either at Lawrence or at their home airports.
Mary Carson, Demarest, N.J., junior, said she received flying lessons for her fourteenth birthday.
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Students must have 20 hours of dualing time, which means flying with an instructor, and 20 hours of solo time. Meeker explained. He went on to say students must also have a radio operators license, pass the FAA exam and pass their physical.
"The school where I learned how to fly has a dealership with Cessna," Miss Carson continued. "When I was 17 and had my pilots license I was allowed to ferry planes. The year I came to previews I flew a plane from Wichita to New Jersey, which helped in building up flying time."
Meeker, who belongs to a local flying club, said, "I had six hours of flying when I took my first solo. The solo came as a surprise after my instructor said to land. I did and he got out and told me I was on my own.
"I've always wanted to get a
Radio operation seems to bother Miss Carson. She said the airport she used in New Jersey is rather large, therefore the radio is quite busy.
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license," Meeker said. "The license will help me with my summer job and should also help me in the future with my business career. Flying is also convenient as I will be able to fly home for weekends and it shouldn't be that expensive."
"I love to fly and have really never had any problems. I consider the most dangerous part of flying taking off and landing." Meeker continued.
"When you do an emergency landing you go up to 2-3,000 feet, cut the power and glide in. In practice you get four or five feet off of the ground and turn the power back on."
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Miss Carson commented that the expense of flying is her biggest problem right now. "I haven't flown for more than a year. At home I would have to pay $22 an hour to become current again, which means I would have to go up with an instructor for a couple of hours for practice."
The basic procedure in obtaining a pilots license is first to take ground school. "The ground school here needs to cover more on weather and communicating with the tower," Meeker said.
Once the pilot's license is obtained, after 40 hours of
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