I'm 47, started flying 3 years ago, got my ppl in 6 months.
What got me interested was actually playing with MSFS. I can't remember where my interest in MSFS started though !
Man, I wish I had started flying when I was a kid !
One of the main reasons that I didn't, was that I was almost completely unaware that g.a. even existed !
I was born and raised in Etobicoke, Ont.
Etobicoke is pretty well smack dab right in the middle of the CYYZ control zone, maybe 1-2 miles away from the center.
You will therefore almost *never* see a small G.A. plane fly in that area. Maybe the extremely rare "traffic reporter" plane.
I don't remember ever seeing a light g.a. plane when I was a kid.
I remember when I was in either high school or grade school, thinking that it would be neat to be a pilot.
Since the only planes I ever saw were airliners, I didn't realize that small g.a. planes even existed ! Heck if you never see something how do you know it even exists?
It just seemed like too big a jump to become an airline pilot. True, I never really investigated what the steps were toward that career, or even towards a ppl.
Had I grown up beside a small g.a. airport ... I wonder
Mike