What did it take to get a ticket in 1946?

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:24:52 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Does anyone know what the requirements were in those days?
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In 1945 I was a Second Lt, Army Air Corps Pilot in RTU (Replacement
(Fighter) Training Unit) and a CAA rep came around and all of us who
wanted a Private License were given a 10 question test and then given
a Temp Certificate and regular license came in several weeks later.

Not to rain on anyone's parade about "the good ol' days" -- but I've read
that the accident statistics back then were truly appalling. As FAA guys
are fond of saying, each new rule was written in blood -- which is why it's
so much harder to get your ticket nowadays.

Big John, you were there. Was it as bad as they say?


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Jay

Back in 30's when I started in GA I saw a number of accidents and read
about others if they made the paper.

Most the pilots survived.

1. Most birds were pretty slow so impact force was low in crash.
2. Construction in those days gave significant crumple zone.
4. Almost all GA flying was VFR in daylight.

People got killed but I never had any fear of flying in those
ramshackle birds.

People died a variety of ways in those days and life span was short so
aircraft deaths were just factored in and didn't make a half page on
front page for a week.

Keep reading about Iowa. Start taking better care of it for me )

Big John

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:02:13 -0500, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote:

Note that, despite all the things they didn't have in 1946, they DID
have one thing that is now sorely missed: almost every town had its
name painted on a flat or nearly flat roof.

They also had the third wheel on the proper end of most airplanes..

-Dana
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:23 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote in :

I have one given to me when I was 13..

Oh, just last week, eh? :-)

Larry Dighera wrote in
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:18:23 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote in :

I have one given to me when I was 13..

Oh, just last week, eh? :-)


Go fjukk yourself netkkkopp


Bertie

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:10:13 -0600, Dallas
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:59:37 -0600, Big John wrote:

all of us who wanted a Private License were given a 10 question test

Sounds easy, but that depends on the 10 questions. They could be:

1) Skin friction drag is due to the viscous attachment that takes place
between the surface and the layer of fluid immediately above it.

(True) (False)

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Nope. They were the basic civilian flying rules that we didn't use in
the Army Air Corps.

10 then. How many now?????

I say again. Oh, for the good old days )

Military.

In WWII the top of the ladder was a Fighter Pilot and the F-51 was the
Premier Fighter.

Big John

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:38:53 -0600, Big John wrote:

10 then. How many now?????

About 800 questions now.

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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?

the other posts seem to be on the money.

I remember in my theory correspondence course back in the early 1970's
the coment was written that the private pilot in 1970 was expected to
understand more than the commercial pilot of the 1950's.

an interesting topic for contemplation.

Stealth Pilot

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:04:01 +0900, Stealth Pilot wrote:

the coment was written that the private pilot in 1970 was expected to
understand more than the commercial pilot of the 1950's.

Was a commercial ticket back in the 1950's all you needed to fly for the
airlines?

I know in the 1970's it required an ATR (Air Transport Rating) but I don't
know when that was started.


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Dallas

Dallas writes:

Was a commercial ticket back in the 1950's all you needed to fly for the
airlines?

I know in the 1970's it required an ATR (Air Transport Rating) but I don't
know when that was started.

I saw Arthur Godfrey pilot an Eastern Airlines Constellation.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dallas writes:

Was a commercial ticket back in the 1950's all you needed to fly for
the airlines?

I know in the 1970's it required an ATR (Air Transport Rating) but I
don't know when that was started.

I saw Arthur Godfrey pilot an Eastern Airlines Constellation.


God you are an idiot.

Bertie