Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

I was going through some old bags that had flight training stuff in them and found this receipt from 1996, a few months before I got my private pilots license, but after I soloed. I flew for 0.8 hours and the cost was $28.80, or $36/hr.

Using an inflation calculator, that would be equal to $59.62 or $74.52/hr which represents a cumulative rate of inflation of 107%. The current rate for those planes (one of them is still there, but N68148 was sold several years ago) cost $125/hr. That represents a 247.2% increase in the price. Ooof!

I think we had a credit card processing machine (hence the authorization code), but it didn't print a receipt, so we had to write those out by hand. It's been a long time since we had to write out receipts by hand. And I blurred out my signature and the card number, even though I'm pretty sure I don't have the same card and even if I did the number has long since changed. But still... For those curious about "old school" receipts, here's the full-size image.