I read Heimo's book a couple years ago. It is a good read. I'm now finishing Flying North, South, East, & West. An interesting story of a young man "Terry Reece" that moved from Oregon to Alaska. He wanted to fly. Said he was the first to go from a student's license to a commercial ticket. In the book he is now flying Hercs. He flew the early Surveyors for the North Slope, explorer's supplies going from Greenland to the North Pole, supplies in Africa and the middle east. He soon came back to do the Alyeska Pipeline flying. He has for the most part flown 100 hours a month. He does mention his screwups.
Terry's first plane flight was in a "cousins" friends Luscombe.
His bud coached him and let him take off. On the landing his bud mmessed up and they crashed, but with minor injuries.
