How Young Were You ?
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13 ish - Chipmunk
17 - Fly schol -C152 solo in 8
17.5 - PPL complete
18 - Harrier T4 (ZB602 - the exact one from The Living Daylights - James Bond)
22 - Seneca (200 hrs TT by end of course)
23 - B757 (what a beauty!!!)
24 - B767 (company thought flying one type was not enough!)
now about 1400 TT
17 - Fly schol -C152 solo in 8
17.5 - PPL complete
18 - Harrier T4 (ZB602 - the exact one from The Living Daylights - James Bond)
22 - Seneca (200 hrs TT by end of course)
23 - B757 (what a beauty!!!)
24 - B767 (company thought flying one type was not enough!)
now about 1400 TT
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Feb 2000, aged 22 - 1st flight in R22
June 2000 - first flight in C152 (bug took hold!)
July 2001, aged 23 - PPL passed in C152
Feb 2002, aged 24 - conversion to PA-28 complete, first solo flight and first flights with passengers - fantastic!
June 2000 - first flight in C152 (bug took hold!)
July 2001, aged 23 - PPL passed in C152
Feb 2002, aged 24 - conversion to PA-28 complete, first solo flight and first flights with passengers - fantastic!
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Started on my 12th birthday. C152 Aerobat G-BAUY. Really loved that little 'plane (Didn't actually LOVE the plane, just in case all you sicko's were wondering 
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Just wish that i'd been told at the start that all hours under 14 didnt count towards PPL. I was WELL Pi***d off !!
)Just wish that i'd been told at the start that all hours under 14 didnt count towards PPL. I was WELL Pi***d off !!
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Feet didn't leave the ground, even as a passenger, until 20, so never gave it much thought except to gaze upwards from time to time. First flight going to work in the USA one summer vacation in an Air India B747 and was gobsmacked. Soon as I left uni and got my first job (earning 13K!) took it upon myself to find out more and go for it. Hoping to have my PPL before the summer's out... and then...
First flight in an ATC T31 glider at age 14
Started PPL at 22 then got married and couldn't afford more than a few lessons.
Finally re-started PPL at 32 and got it in 18 months (!!!!!) due to weather and job moves. Never start a PPL in the UK in October....
Now 45 and flying for fun in an Auster
Started PPL at 22 then got married and couldn't afford more than a few lessons.
Finally re-started PPL at 32 and got it in 18 months (!!!!!) due to weather and job moves. Never start a PPL in the UK in October....
Now 45 and flying for fun in an Auster
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16th Birthday glider solo (BGA A & B Certificates) RAF Henlow
First barf down the side of a T21 age 16+ 1 day.(Instructor made me wipe if off with grass)
Air experience Chipmunks age 17: more mega barfs:never really got used to aerobatics : then 30 year gap til PPL age 47
Doesn't time fly
Cusco.
First barf down the side of a T21 age 16+ 1 day.(Instructor made me wipe if off with grass)
Air experience Chipmunks age 17: more mega barfs:never really got used to aerobatics : then 30 year gap til PPL age 47
Doesn't time fly
Cusco.
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Forgot the short hops to ten feet or so as a RAF CCF corporal at school in the school Grasshopper twanged across the playing fields by bungee pulled by a small group or grousing fifth formers.
The actual grasshopper I flew I'm told is now on exhibit at Shuttleworth collection.
So there you are - a link with history of flight.
Cusco
Forgot the short hops to ten feet or so as a RAF CCF corporal at school in the school Grasshopper twanged across the playing fields by bungee pulled by a small group or grousing fifth formers.
The actual grasshopper I flew I'm told is now on exhibit at Shuttleworth collection.
So there you are - a link with history of flight.
Cusco
First flight- Piper Caribbean from Lulsgate at age 11
First airline flight - Vickers Vanguard from Gatwick at age 12
First military flight - DH Sea Vixen from Yeovilton at age 15
First solo - Slingsby T21b from Merryfield at age 16
PPL - Cessna F150 from Cranfield at age 17
Then Cherokee, Chipmunk, Jet Provost, Gnat, Hunter, Meteor, Buccaneer, Vulcan, Hawk, Phantom, Jetstream, VC10, VC10K, Bulldog - and then back to VC10/VC10K and Cherokee/Warrior!
First airline flight - Vickers Vanguard from Gatwick at age 12
First military flight - DH Sea Vixen from Yeovilton at age 15
First solo - Slingsby T21b from Merryfield at age 16
PPL - Cessna F150 from Cranfield at age 17
Then Cherokee, Chipmunk, Jet Provost, Gnat, Hunter, Meteor, Buccaneer, Vulcan, Hawk, Phantom, Jetstream, VC10, VC10K, Bulldog - and then back to VC10/VC10K and Cherokee/Warrior!
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13 first flight in a glider
14 first flight in light aircraft (Robin of some sort)
17 Trial Lesson (in G-BNUS with Mark Hewett at Stapleford) (now ATR Captain)
20 CPL
21 Instrument Rating
23 Instructor Rating.
just turned 24, hoping for Airline job before 26....
Loony
incidentally.. my youngest student is 16, my oldest is 78...
14 first flight in light aircraft (Robin of some sort)
17 Trial Lesson (in G-BNUS with Mark Hewett at Stapleford) (now ATR Captain)
20 CPL
21 Instrument Rating
23 Instructor Rating.
just turned 24, hoping for Airline job before 26....
Loony
incidentally.. my youngest student is 16, my oldest is 78...
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First airborne aged 19 in a Wessex. Age 22 in a Phantom, and 20-something in Scout, Blackhawk, VC10, C130, German Air Force C160 and Jet Provost. Best civvy trip aged 38, the Conc. Just had to be done.
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Formation, I have Formation v2.0 beaten - first flight for me was on Mom's lap in a C150 (EI-AUO) out of Farranfore (now EIKY) at the age of 14 days 
It's listed in Uniform Oscar's logbook as a flight with 2.5 passangers
Flew every other weekend for most of my first seven years with Dad, and was the stereotypical airport kid, albiet with a kerry accent Then Dad went to college and the PPL lapsed. 
But he's now finally getting back into the air and I'll be sitting the writtens with him and finally starting into my own PPL in January next year - only a decade past the originally planned deadline!
And if Berkut Engineering get a new venture capitalist, the side garden is just crying out for a small workshop to build a berkut
It's listed in Uniform Oscar's logbook as a flight with 2.5 passangers
Flew every other weekend for most of my first seven years with Dad, and was the stereotypical airport kid, albiet with a kerry accent
Then Dad went to college and the PPL lapsed. But he's now finally getting back into the air and I'll be sitting the writtens with him and finally starting into my own PPL in January next year - only a decade past the originally planned deadline!And if Berkut Engineering get a new venture capitalist, the side garden is just crying out for a small workshop to build a berkut
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Agree with Chilli start young. 10 days old in the case of my son in a Jodel from Seething. Wasn't much use as a navigator though but seemed to like the spirited non aerobatic handling - at least didn't end up with anything to wash of the canopy!
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37. Do I qualify as "oldest"? Got my PPL when I was 39, added night and IMC, then FAA PPL/IR. Nearly did FAA CPL but realised I was too old for it to be relevant so saved the money.
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11 - Aircoupe G-ARHC Enniskillen
17 - PPL Flying Scholarship - Ipswich August 1975
18 - Told RAF to poke it after being offered commision
All sorts of bits and pieces
30 - Shorts 360
32 - 757
33 - A320
38 - LHS
43 - Happy as the proverbial !
17 - PPL Flying Scholarship - Ipswich August 1975
18 - Told RAF to poke it after being offered commision
All sorts of bits and pieces
30 - Shorts 360
32 - 757
33 - A320
38 - LHS
43 - Happy as the proverbial !
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From as young as I can remember, wanted to fly.
Age 5 spent hours on Quantas B707 jump seat to Aussie & back
Age 11 take up in a C172
Age 17 RAF decline my generous offer to fly one of their nice shiny new Tornados
Age 22 take 6 months to get PPL
Age 42 contemplating how / when to take my 11 1/2 month old son up in my group aircraft. His first flight was in a Scarebus 319 age 4 months.
Age 5 spent hours on Quantas B707 jump seat to Aussie & back
Age 11 take up in a C172
Age 17 RAF decline my generous offer to fly one of their nice shiny new Tornados
Age 22 take 6 months to get PPL
Age 42 contemplating how / when to take my 11 1/2 month old son up in my group aircraft. His first flight was in a Scarebus 319 age 4 months.
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Hello,
I was 14 - first flight in a Scottish Avaition Bulldog from RAF Church Fenton with the Air Training Corps.
Did my PPL at 18 and am now 19 currently studying ATPL thoery - 20 in March 2003.
Jinkster
I was 14 - first flight in a Scottish Avaition Bulldog from RAF Church Fenton with the Air Training Corps.
Did my PPL at 18 and am now 19 currently studying ATPL thoery - 20 in March 2003.
Jinkster
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First time I flew - 23.
First time I flew in an aircraft - 32.
First time I flew was as a result of an argument between my motorbike and someone elses car - the car won and I did a 'superman' over the hedge at the side of the road.
Mid-air I looked down at the XR3i Cabriolet and saw this guy watching me go overhead. I landed on the grass embankment on the otherside of the hedge doing 'the dying fly' (non-TISWAS people want remember that) and came to a halt at the foot of the slope.
This guy popped his head up over the six foot hedge and asked me if I was ok. I still had all requisite number of limbs attached so said 'err.. I think so'.
and then he drove off............
Started flying 'proper' at Xmas 2000, passed my ppl(h) 18 months later. Age 34 (going on 18)...
First time I flew in an aircraft - 32.
First time I flew was as a result of an argument between my motorbike and someone elses car - the car won and I did a 'superman' over the hedge at the side of the road.
Mid-air I looked down at the XR3i Cabriolet and saw this guy watching me go overhead. I landed on the grass embankment on the otherside of the hedge doing 'the dying fly' (non-TISWAS people want remember that) and came to a halt at the foot of the slope.
This guy popped his head up over the six foot hedge and asked me if I was ok. I still had all requisite number of limbs attached so said 'err.. I think so'.
and then he drove off............
Started flying 'proper' at Xmas 2000, passed my ppl(h) 18 months later. Age 34 (going on 18)...
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mine reads as many others ex ATC, Solo (glider) at 16, PPL at 17 (needed a student pilots licence to go solo in those days, waiting for that from the CAA meant I missed first powered solo on my 17th birthday).unfortunately the ATC don't do the flying scholarship anymore, but you can still do AEF and gliding courses I believe.
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First flight in RAF Chipmunk 7 AEF, RAF Newton, age 14 1970
Then glider solo in Slingsby, age 15, RAF Swanton Morley 1971
First powered solo C150 G-AYRK Age 17, Ipswich 1973
First jet solo, JP3A XN586 RAF Church Fenton 1977
First rotary solo, Whirlwind HAR10 XR458 RAF Ternhill 1978
Now ATPLH and CPLA. Never held a PPL though.
Then glider solo in Slingsby, age 15, RAF Swanton Morley 1971
First powered solo C150 G-AYRK Age 17, Ipswich 1973
First jet solo, JP3A XN586 RAF Church Fenton 1977
First rotary solo, Whirlwind HAR10 XR458 RAF Ternhill 1978
Now ATPLH and CPLA. Never held a PPL though.
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