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A few hours solo here in a Luscombe 8E around Denver. Fun but it was off to school elsewhere. I never completed the license and never could get the same deal since. It was $5.00/hour all costs including insurance and with or without instructor. The club were all commercial flyers who had A&E ratings. They got deals on eveything and did their own maintenance. The 8E was a tail dragger too.






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I think both of you should write that book. My wife started writing children's books several years ago from ideas she been thinking about for over 20 years. It's a good and satisfying thing to do. It also hard work and takes a lot of time.

A few years before you soled I spend an evening with family. My father flew commercially and a fellow pilot's brother was visiting. He was a senior biologist for the Alaska government. I don't remember how senior or the exact agency. It was an evening of fascinating stories for me in my late teens. Many of the stories were about flying and if your experiences were anywhere similar it would make a fascinating book. The main thing about writing is that it's good to have a story you really really want to tell, and that's a large part of the satisfaction as well.

I think I also soled in '61 in a Luscombe 8E. I joined the AF before completing my license and ironically have been only a passenger ever since.

Despite the satisfaction of writing, getting a publisher interested is like winning a lottery. Actually selling books is mostly about small margins and mass distribution. Large publishers have large distribution. 'Do-it-yourself' publishing or 'vanity' publishing houses don't and the efforts usually come nowhere near to making back costs. But profit really isn't the point.

My wife self-published her books and by controlling production costs it has kept the costs down to what could be called recreation. She's also managed to tell her stories to hundreds of people beyond family and friends.






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