At 16 Tim Saddler Tries Something Different some time. Since his father has Most fifteen year olds look longingly to their sixteenth birthday as the occasion they'll finally get to take the family car out minus the family. But a driver's license wasn't enough for Tim Saddler. His sixteenth birthday also marked the first time he was allowed to solo an aircraft. Licenses to drive a car and fly an airplane on his own have been Tim's dreams for a long time. And it was important to him that he accomplish both goals on the same day. A person can take training and \bove: Tim Saddler and one of the planes he fees out of the Cedar Rapids airport. learn to drive and fly before the age of sixteen, but one can't do either alone until he reaches sixteen. Tim took his driver education course last summer and has been taking flying lessons from his father, John Saddler, for quite been a pilot for over twenty years, that's how Tim became interested in flying. He enjoys flying a lot more than driving. "I like to look around. Everything is pretty from up in the sky/' he comments "While most people can drive, not as many are able to fly." He soloed in the plane about eight a.m., and by eleven the same morning, he also had collected his driver's license. He probably is not the first person to solo an aircraft and get his driver's license on his sixteenth birthday, but that really didn't matter to Tim. He had accomplished his own personal goals. Tim's days of dreaming aren't over by a long shot. "My goal is to be a 747 jet pilot or at least an airline pilot," he says. Joe Ockenfels Connie O'Connor Cary Ollinger Jenny Olson Mark Olson Caroline Osborne Debbie Osborne Jeff Peck Michelle Pedersen Kevin Peters Devin Pipkin Mary Pond Theresa Powers Scott Raim John Randles Cheryl Rankin Marlene Ratcliff Susan Reid Kevin Rigdon Greg Riggs Pam Ritchie . Also, he points out, Sophomores 109
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