PTH, I paid 3.50 plus 5.00 for instructor in 63. I soloed in 5 hrs and my total cost for student license and medical was 50.00. The hrs were on the tach so were less than real hours. I was soloing with 50.00 total expenditure. Try doing that today. The cool part was Art Scholl was our head of the aviation department so got to fly with him.