How long have you been flying?

[Pilots_Rule]

It's been 4 years for me. How about you??

Sorry, new to the forum. Just trying to get a feel. :)

[John Eacott]

51 years last September. :ok:

[Devil 49]

48 years, but I retired August 1.

[Helinaut]

36 years and still going :E

[paco]

40 years and counting....

phil

[ShyTorque]

As a mere stripling of a lad, it's only 44 years for me.

[HLCPTR]

50 years as of last month. Semi-retired.

[Ascend Charlie]

How long have I been flying? Jeez, what time is it now?

[heli1]

54 years and counting....( My Brantly appears to have died first !).

[oleary]

50 years, ....

[Phoinix]

12 years,...

[TipCap]

44 years but have been retired for 7 years now....

[Delta Torque]

I'm just a learner. 35 years.

[maeroda]

20 years and counting...

[LRP]

48 years come Jan.

[fijdor]

39 this year in May and semi retired, working May to Oct or so.

JD

[outofwhack]

34 years and for as long as I live (but I'm slowing coming back to gliding - the purest form of flight)

[Vertical Freedom]

Just a wee Puppy at 28years on training wheels & still ticking along ;)

[heli kiwi]

28 years. First 10 on planks.

[rotorfossil]

58 years fixed an rotary.

[Arm out the window]

33 years for me, a reasonable bit of plank wing time but the majority rotary.

[skidsoff]

50 years and still going.

[spencer17]

44 and to young to retire :E

[Hughes500]

Compared to everyone else a mere 27 years and going grey plus 30lbs heavier which is more worrying

[FlimsyFan]

16 months. 99.8hrs P1. Playing catchup

[SASless]

First hands on was a Bensen Gyrocopter on the back of a Pick Up Truck in 1963.

Gave it up for Lent a few Years back....lost the Medical.

[[email protected]]

34 years so far - hopefully with a good few more left in me yet:)

[Dreviator]

14 years......a mere fledgling.

[Jettiejock]

A mere toddler at 32 years of fixed and rotary.

[Troglodita]

Decided flying beat the **** out of being a ICI chemist (schools career advisors suggestion?) in the middle of a loop in a DH Chipmunk over RAF Kinloss in 1964 but only been paid for doing it since 1970 - bugger - that is still 46 years!

Trog

[Fareastdriver]

Packed it in eight years ago still with a Class One medical after 48 years in 25 countries.

[vaibronco]

12 years (7 "seriously")

[idle stop]

Start my 48th year on 6th January 2017.

[Dropthegear]

32 years, but seems like yesterday.

DC

Edit: sorry, didn't realize this was the rotorheads forum. I'm airline.
I do have about a dozen hours dual in a B-206 Jet Ranger, gained about 15 minutes at a time from a friend who owned a 1 helicopter operation.

[cosmiccomet]

22 years and counting!!!

[Dragoon52]

44years. 8 months to retire.

[belly tank]

22 years...and yes its gone fast!....Some plank wing but majority Rotary :) Still remember learning on a 22 with no governor back then :O

[OLD_Astar]

37 years and keep counting.

[albatross]

44 years...It's been fun.

[heli kiwi]

28 years. First 10 on planks.

Forgot to add. When I did my conversion to rotary. They didn't tell me I had to add in a divorce. 😊
But I've had lots of girlfriends since. Some not mine.
Wouldn't change a second of it.

[EESDL]

33-years, rotary and plank

[Geoffersincornwall]

49 years and hanging on in there, pretending to be an aviator by hiding in the sim :-)

[Gordy]

34 Years....

[Droopy]

41 years of which the last 36 rotary

[Three Lima Charlie]

FAA Master Pilot. 55 years in fixed wing, 52 years in helicopters.

[MightyGem]

Flew for 36 years before I retired in 2014, having started in gliders. :ok:

[Fareastdriver]

FAA Master Pilot. 55 years in fixed wing, 52 years in helicopters.

By Christ! 107 years. He must have done his first solo on a Wright Flyer.

[Self loading bear]

By Christ! 107 years. He must have done his first solo on a Wright Flyer.

Not Necessarily,
I know it is not allowed to out fellow Rotorheads but in this case:

We are talking about Otto Lilienthal!😜😜

Cheers SLB

[handysnaks]

Flew for 36 years before I retired in 2014, having started in gliders..

was that on Horsa's MG?:p

[Soave_Pilot]

10 years and 9 months. Just a newbie

[Thomas coupling]

I have been flying for approximately a year my log book tells me. And that has taken me 38 years.

[soggyboxers]

Using the logic of Mr Flexible Disc coupling, it appears that I had some kind of airborne seat fabric under the underwear of my perspiring derrière for 3.19 years. This left me plenty of time for many more gallons of infuriator and the milk of my mother. Life is indeed good

[GKaplan]

23 years, all rotary.

[BOBAKAT]

40 years licensed next july, but begin to fly helo 41 :)

[vaqueroaero]

17 years and counting.

[RMK]

10 years; so still wet behind the ears.

[inmate]

3 Plank + 44 Rotary, still going just a little slower these days but still smiling.

[twinstar_ca]

off and on since 1977 but lost my medical in the early 2000's.... great armchair pilot now...

[Thilo]

38 years, started on planks but quickly graduated to rotor. Still going...

[Attila]

38 years when I retired in 2008. You know what, much as I loved my flying career, I don't miss it at all now.

It was great while it lasted, all 16325 hours of it!!

[Fwh]

Only for about a year still trying to build up hours:ugh:

[griffothefog]

November 1981 in a Bell 47 D1, guess that makes it 35 years with 7 to go on EASA. Fun all the way 😎

[capt tosspot]

43, still have to make the coffee though

[Nigerian Expat Outlaw]

25 and out. Licence went due cancer, pulled the plug from the re-trained role this week. So involved for 31 in total. A young whippersnapper !

NEO

[NickLappos]

48 years, and counting. Wouldn't swap a day of it.

[Nescafe]

15 years and still learning.

[expatfrance]

40 years, mostly on helicopters 12000 hours, retired 2010 and whilst I do not miss it now, feel very privileged to have been so lucky to have had such a great career. http://cdn.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif:ok:

[EN48]

Fifty years: 40 years fixed wing, last 10 years helo. All personal flying, with no accidents, incidents, violations or insurance claims. Will continue as long as I dont become a hazzard to others or myself. Wanted a flying a career but uncorrected vision wouldnt cut it with the military or airlines, so I chose another career option and flying became an avocation. My pro prilot friends, mostly ex mil and retired airline, assure me I made the right career choice! :E

[rotornut]

Ever since I first saw Whirlybirds on TV in the late fifties, I think - well that was initially, at least, in my mind. Actual flying was only 3 years and I didn't get enough of it :{

[Bladestrike]

32 years, all helicopter. Flown in a lot of countries, hoping to fly in plenty more.