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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1981
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Airplane rental makes course costs sky high
B-CS offers many roads to pilot’s license
By GARY BARKER
Battalion Reporter
For persons who nave dreamed
of flying and having a pilot’s
license, the Bryan-College Station
area offers many possibilities that
can make that dream come true.
Ground school, in which a
potential pilot learns the fun
damentals of flight, is the first step
in obtaining a private pilot’s
license. The Federal Aviation
Administration, which licenses
pilots, requires a student to take
ground school and pass a written
exam before receiving in-flight in
struction.
After passing the FAA exam,
which can be taken through Dr.
Howard Chamberlain, a manage
ment professor at Texas A&M
University, a student must have
40 hours of flying time — 20 hours
with a certified flight instructor
and 20 hours solo — before taking
a final flight examination and re
ceiving his license. A flight stu
dent has two years in which to
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complete his in-flight training.
The largest costs in obtaining a
private pilot’s license are airplane
rental and instructor fees which
can total between $1,200 and
$2,000. Ground school classes cost
between $12 and $100 — not in
cluding books — depending on
where the course is offered.
Texas A&M’s Department of
Industrial Education offers a
ground school course. Aviation
Education 475. Instructor Mike
Menez said Texas A&M’s course is
better than most ground school
courses.
“Most ground schools are self-
taught with little structure,” he
said. “Only a minority of people
who get their private pilot’s
license go to a structured ground
school.”
Menez, who is teaching the
course for the first time this fall,
said the course is taught in both
the fall and spring semesters.
Approximately 70 students take it
each semester. He said a majority
of the students taking the course
this semester plan to get their pri
vate pilot’s licenses. The course is
not required for any major but is
worth three elective credit hours.
“Some technical aptitude is
needed to take the course, but in
terest is the primary factor,”
Menez said.
Community Education also is
offering a ground school course
this fall that will meet in the even
ing at the A&M Consolidated
High School. The course, which
lasts 12 weeks and costs $31.80, is
being taught by Jim Noel, an in
structor for the Texas A&M Flying
Club.
The flying club offers the com
plete flight training program in
cluding ground school, plane re
ntal, instructor fees, medical ex
amination, flight check ride, and
club membership for about
$1,600. Dolan said about 30 stu
dents take flight training through
the club each year.
The club, which limits itself to
100 members, sells membership
shares for $190 for flying students
and students who already have a
pilot’s license. Each club member
owns approximately 1 percent of
the club’s airplanes. The flying
club owns three airplanes and
leases three others which are kept
at Easterwood Airport. If a stu
dent decides to leave the club, he
receives $140 refund for his mem
bership share.
The flying club rents a Cessna
150 airplane for $23.25 per hour.
The same type of airplane rents for
$31 per hour at Brazos Aviation at
Easterwood and for $25 at Bryan
Aero at Coulter Field.
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Bryan Aero offers the complete
flight training for $1,200, not in
cluding a medical examination,
check ride or ground school. They
offer a home study ground school
kit for $31.95.
“The home study kit teaches the
same as a ground school course,”
said Roy Tribbey of Bryan Aero.
“You just have to study a little
harder.”
Brazos Aviation offers the Cess
na Pilot Center Private Pilot
Course for a total cost of $1,700 to
$2,000. Bill Crockford, an instruc
tor at Brazos Aviation, said the
course is FAA approved
means it includes more,Mil
and flight tests and is more4
hired than most flight trau
programs. The course, whidi
eludes ground school, re
only of 35 hours of in
training.
Rare whale s death still
mysterious, expert says
Gunshot wounds have been
ruled out in the death of what is
believed to be a rare pygmy sperm
whale found on a Corpus Christi
beach a few weeks ago, although
the animal may have died from a
number of natural causes, says a
Texas A&M University veterinary
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expert.
The 260-pound almost sen
foot sea mammal had at kv.' | the kit
skin lesions that appeared all Jvhen
to be entry and exit wounds,
Dr. Raymond Tarpley, whti
cted an autopsy on the
Subsequent tests proved llf
sions were not caused hyp
Tarpley is a clinical associi
the veterinary anatomy i syst
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merit at Texas A&M.
He said results from two :' M coult
tests would be needed be; i for eat
more complete picture oH he
whale’s death would be avail* avail
Tarpley said the animal ito devek
chronic skin ailment, theeaThe Cat
ture of which is not yet b cooper
and that the whale washes own to
fested with parasitic worms»j| ! inch
may have weakened it and o
buted to its death.
Air spaces in the Whalesll
were free of fluids, said Taijj
indicating that the animal if
drown. It may have becowy
from a variety of causes I
washed ashore, but re s u “ sl |
the other tests may shedia
light on that possibility, he
The tests are being cond g*
at the Texas Veterinary Mrf
Diagnostic Laboratory, a F|
the Texas A&M Universil?]
tern, in cooperation "
R.M. “Mick” Robinson.
The whale carcass was s»l
Texas A&M from Gaks^l
Arama Mariheworld, w ]
animal had been floj ^
hopes of saving its kfej
discovered in poor co"
Corpus Christi beach. W
died later that night.
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