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I grew up desperately loving airplanes and everything about them. I 
built models, but really wanted to fly. I kind of forget about it in 
college, but about 10 years ago I actually started lessons. I 
accumulated a bunch of hours, but never finished ground school and 
never took my written and never soloed. I even bought a plane, but that 
was a bad experience, and I finally dumped it at a large loss. Then my 
kids began college, and for a while I was paying tuition for four kids 
and my wife, who was finishing up her teaching certificate. Things were 
quite tight, and I was sick of the whole thing, so I quit.

Now I have just one kid in college, and he'll be done next year, and my 
financial situation is better, so I bought an Ercoupe and have been 
working to get my license. I am ready to solo, and weather permitting 
will do so tomorrow. I took the written Wednesday, so that's out the 
way. I took the Gleim on-line ground school, and for $99 it's a great 
way to get that underlying information that the instructor builds on.

I'm planning a cross country tomorrow, another next week, then my solo 
work, and I want to take my test at the end of April or early May. I'm 
going to take the practical test in a C150, just do I don't have the 
2-control restriction on my license. About 30 hours of my training was 
in C150s.

I'm 54 now, and I'm planning on many years of bopping around the 
country in my 415C.

Larry in Missouri

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