Hi chaps
I've just been given my grandfather's PPL (no. 3624, valid 'all types'!) by my mother, who found it while sorting through some old papers. It was obtained in October 1930 when he was flying for the Oxford University Air Squadron and lapsed a year later in 1931 when the medical ran out. After that it was revalidated for a further year in 1932 and once again expired a year later, this time never to be renewed - he had left Oxford at this point and spent the war in SOE rather than the RAF (he applied in mid 1939 and - somewhat strangely - wasn't accepted, which he believed saved his life).
As a current PPL student, looking at this made me wonder what a 1930s PPL involved. Anyone know? What would he have been flying as a training aircraft? And why the one year medical, which seems a bit strict for a 20 year old?
So many questions
