Landing fee at SJC? Are we now so far??

Bob Fry wrote in :

"MS" == Marty Shapiro writes:

MS Were you in the Jet Center or the old GA terminal
MS building? There were several other flying clubs at SJC which
MS had lockers at the old GA terminal before it was torn down to
MS expand 30R.

I think the GA terminal, though at the time I didn't think of it as a
"terminal". This was in 1975. I soloed the last day I was a teenager,
and passed my flight test on the 199th anniversary of US independence,
easy dates to remember.

I think instruction was $8/hour and a C-150, wet, was $13. A lot of
money for a student salary, but it was either that, or buy a good
car. Being a geek I didn't care much about my vehicle...I wanted to
learn to fly!

Headphones and push-to-talk buttons belonged to pilots in crisp white
dress shirts in big airplanes. It was a big advance for us to start
buying and using the foam earplugs. Microphone and loudspeaker turned
up to distortion were the norm. Even then SJC was busy so it was one
hand on yoke, another on throttle, third hand holding the mic.

It was the original airline terminal and airport office for SJC.

You could go up to the observation deck on the roof of the building
and have a great view of the airliners landing on 30L. At some parties we
would go up there and "rate" the landings. We could play the music as loud
as we wanted with no complaints! "Mile High Club" flights ran out of that
terminal as well.

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Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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