What's your age & how long have you been flying?

[dublinpilot]

Well these last few topics have been interesting!! So in the interest of finding out more about one another......

How old are you.....and long have you been flying?

I'm 28 years old....29 this Sunday. :eek:
I started flying in March last year, and got my PPL 2 weeks ago.



.........now your turn!

[sennadog]

A few more of these threads and it won't be worth having a bash to get to know each other - we'll know all there is to know.;)

For the record, 35 and 8 months of flying.

[Aussie Andy]

I'm enjoying getting ot know everyone ;)

I am 39 and have been flying for two years, not counting some gliding I did in my youth...

[Grim Reaper 14]

37 years and 4 months (I'm sure you can work out which is which). Are we gonna start posting photos too?! Count me out then.....

[Evo7]

28 - and I've been flying since April last year. 7/9ths of a PPL :)

[sharpshot]

Fast approaching an age beyond any runway heading (Well Rwy 36 + a bit more.

Now the worrying bit; held licence for 29 years and still trying to amass hours at own expense.

Pet hate = v. young First officers looking about 18 with more hours than me.........:eek:

[Whirlybird]

Been flying for five years. Sorry, I don't tell anyone my age; well, only a few really really good friends. ;)

[tacpot]

38 yrs old and flying for 21 Years, with a 17 year layoff in the middle.

[poetpilot]

Just approaching 50, started at 16 on gliders.

But modest in terms of flying time;
700 launches/60hrs on gliders,
760 hrs PPL time.

...and still learning...

[MikeSamuel]

18, and been flying a year and a month, at a rate just below one hour a month :(

I'll get there...

[CBG]

Hi there,

37 in a couple of months time. I have been flying since 97, got the PPL in 98. about 40 hours per year, except for the past year: 192 hours since June 2001! (due to the fact that flying in France is so easy and cheap!).

[ETOPS773]

21-Flying for 16 months

Got 107.3 hours :) did skills test at 39 hours :p solo in 9.4 :D
(edited to add hours)

[Penguina]

23 and flying for oooh 14 months or so. Still limping towards the PPL. Feel like I'll never even get an opportunity to even do the QXC, let alone get a licence or any of that fantastical nonsense!

[Lawyerboy]

29, and 6 years. MikeSamuel, I know where you're coming from...

[distaff_beancounter]

Old enough to know better

But young enough, to enjoy making a fool of myself, again :D


Oops.... I forgot the second bit .... I got my PPL in 1988

(who said you get more forgetful with age? :D )

[Bouncy Landing]

OK.... 42 a couple of weeks ago, got my PPL just beore Christmas 1982, coming up to 20 years ago....

[rotated]

True North on the first, magnetic from WI, USA on the second (regularly, anyhow). Had my first lesson in 1986.

[Volume]

33 years old, first (passenger :) ) flight in 1972 followed minutes later by the decission to become a pilot which unfortunately took another 12 years to wait. Done more than 1500 flights on more than 50 different types in 12 years since first solo which was August 4th, 1984... (long, long ago in the times when sex was safe and flying was dangerous :D )

[Spamcan defender]

Started flying back in 1985 when I was 12!. As the mathematicians will have worked out, I'm 28 :eek: :eek: .
Had a few years out as I had covered the course by the time I was 14 and still couldn't go solo. Unfortunately during that time I got the car bug :rolleyes: :( and spent most of my spare cash on that. Got back into it in about '92ish and have flown since then, although nowhere near as much as I would have liked :mad: :mad:
Really got into the flying thing when I was a kid (about 5)as my dad used to work abroad and my mum and I would get long haul flights when visiting him. That's when I realised I wanted to be a pilot.:D

[AerBabe]

25, and pleased to see I'm not the youngest (although Mikey doesn't count, cos he's big enough to make up for it) :p

Got myself a trial flight on my 22nd birthday. Didn't stop grinning until the next time I flew, 13 months later. I spent that time saving up enough to go solo. Went solo, and couldn't stop.

Took me 20 months and about 58 hours to get my licence, as I had to work evenings and weekends to pay for it.

Now been flying (not including the first trial flight) for 2 years and 4 months, have around 75 hours in my logbook.

Very proud cos the only bit my parents paid for was the postage to send my licence application off to Gatwick. (And that was only because I'd left my wallet at home) :)

[big.al]

33 now, got my PPL in May (having started flying 3 weeks earlier at the tender age of 32).

[Maarten]

I'll be hitting the 40 this month and got my PPL October last year.
Just past the 100 hours.

Maarten

[CBLong]

33, started flying 1997 (first solo on 4th July - appropriate), but didn't actually get PPL til last October with about 50 hours (is that a record??). Up to about 70 hours now, including 3 hours IMC training...

cbl.

[Rote 8]

26 - Started Flying about 4 years ago. I am on about 110 hrs at the moment a good chunk of which came in the last 12 months (Started throwing more cash at it). Have loved aeroplanes and flying since around the age of 5 or 6.

[Hen Ddraig]

First handled aircraft in 1954. Immediately hooked.

Still hourbuilding

Age? Retired, you're as old as you feel.

[maggioneato]

Oops I'm the oldest so far, 59 get the jolly old bus pass next year. Started flying March 95 got ppl May 96. Now prefer grass strip flying.:D :D

[Aerobatic Flyer]

34. Started gliding at 16 (over half a lifetime ago.... makes me feel old!), and aeroplanes once I could almost afford them, in 96.

[TheKentishFledgling]

15 years old, been flying for 20 months!

Is there a prize for the youngest PPRuNer? :D

tKF

[Whirlybird]

Fledgling,

I think you're too old for the prize; I have a vague memory of a 13 year old on wannabes at some point.

Too old at 15! :D

[TheKentishFledgling]

Mmmm how about youngest on the private flying group though ;) ;)

tKF :p

[SkyCruiser]

Well, 29. Started flying at 12 with my dad, got hooked and was solo by 17. Now 2000 hours most of which are on a turbo prop but I still love my GA.

[Spacer]

I am 20.5, been flying since August 1999, and have 120 hours over that time.

[vancouv]

42 and been flying since Nov. 2000, finally got my PPL in June.

[Sultan Ismail]

First experience, gliding at Swanton Morley, A and B licences, signed by Lord Brabazon, although it looks suspiciously like a John Bull rubber stamp, all at the age of 14, then a PPL at age 28, which I have now maintained for 33 years on 3 continents Africa, Asia and Oz, ok, 2 continents and a large island.

You worked out the age, good, but let me tell you, and you better believe it:

You're as old as the woman you're feeling

[tomahawk1673]

18.5, and got PPL(A) in September last year...

[djk]

31 and started training for PPL January last year