My giant leap into the world of aviation 55 years ago
I seem to have never acknowledged this day (May 30th) for its significance as a life-changing day. It would certainly be on the very short list of the most significant such days ever for me. This day, May 30th, 55 years ago, was my first time in an airplane. I wasn’t a passenger, though, which is most people’s experience, I was right seat in Cessna 150 CF-VGD for a 0.8-hour “familiarization” flight, I think at Skyways in Langley, BC. A month later, I began my Private Pilot training in a Fleet 80 Canuck at the BC Aero Club in Pitt Meadows, BC.
The first two photos below show the first pages of my log book. The photo of the aircraft isn’t the 150 I flew, it’s just a stock photo of another early-model 150, which is quite different than the modernized 150s of just a couple of years later.
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