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Old 30th August 2011 | 20:14
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Shaggy Sheep Driver
 
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I wasn't posting about guys that have been flying for years and are still sh1t hot at 95 years of age; a totally different consideration. It's a guy considering starting the PPL at 70 with zero previous flying experience that interests me.

We learn our motor skills while young (how to walk, how to catch a thrown ball or hit it with a bat etc.... how to hunt when we lived in caves) and the human body has evolved to do that. Hence my interest in someone developing a whole new set of such skills at an advanced age - not someone who already has those skills and reaches that advanced age while still practising them.

Heck, from where I stand in my early 60s and with time accellerating the way it does as you get older, I can clearly see where 70 is... only just over the horizon.
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