How Young Were You ?
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Posts: 4
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
How Young Were You ?
Myself and some fellow student PPL's are wondering how old some of the younger members were when they took your first flight?
Mine was 4/11/00 when i was 14 im currently 16 now
Discussion open
Steve
Mine was 4/11/00 when i was 14 im currently 16 now
Discussion open
Steve
Join Date: May 1999
Location: UK
Posts: 424
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Well I was 21....but my 16 day (Yes 2 and a bit weeks!) old son has just been plonked in the seat of a C152 where I teach...now all I need to do is work out how to get the car seat strapped into the cockpit properly and safely so I can get him airborne so he can fly his first circuit with me!!!!
(give him a few more months & im sure itll be sorted!!)
(give him a few more months & im sure itll be sorted!!)
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Posts: 4
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Piper Pilot
Wow thats young... I fly out of Newcastle Airport
Formation Flyer
OKay i think you win that one unless someone goes in to labour on board a plane
Wow thats young... I fly out of Newcastle Airport
Formation Flyer
OKay i think you win that one unless someone goes in to labour on board a plane
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Between Galaxies
Age: 39
Posts: 453
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
12th Birthday - Got a scanner
13th Birthday - Was impressed by all the slick sounding pilots so I had to go and try it for myself .... Cessan 152 - Hooked!
14th Birthday - Had to go and try it .... again, this time in a PA 28
15th Birthday - Had to go and try it.... yet again - Another PA 28
16th Birthday - Yup, again... Cessna 152
17th Birthday - Had to sacrifice a trail lesson for all the PPL equipment (my words on that day were 'ohhhhh **** yes!!')
I bet my parents wish they never bought me a trial lesson! Hooked at an impressionable age leads to an expensive career path!
13th Birthday - Was impressed by all the slick sounding pilots so I had to go and try it for myself .... Cessan 152 - Hooked!
14th Birthday - Had to go and try it .... again, this time in a PA 28
15th Birthday - Had to go and try it.... yet again
- Another PA 2816th Birthday - Yup, again... Cessna 152
17th Birthday - Had to sacrifice a trail lesson for all the PPL equipment (my words on that day were 'ohhhhh **** yes!!')
I bet my parents wish they never bought me a trial lesson! Hooked at an impressionable age leads to an expensive career path!
First time in a light aircraft at age 11.
Went solo at 16.
PPL at 17.
Instructor at 20.
Now 27. The younger you start the easier it is and the more intensively you can train the better.
The Air Training Corps is a good place to start for anyone under 20. They will teach you how to fly and teach you more than is needed to know to pass the PPL exams and half the CPL ones. For free.
WWW
Went solo at 16.
PPL at 17.
Instructor at 20.
Now 27. The younger you start the easier it is and the more intensively you can train the better.
The Air Training Corps is a good place to start for anyone under 20. They will teach you how to fly and teach you more than is needed to know to pass the PPL exams and half the CPL ones. For free.
WWW
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: too near London
Posts: 214
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
14 with Richard Ellis at the Kingair flying club, BH.. You also know you're getting old when the air cadet gliders you had so much fun with are now considered 'vintage'. "Made of wood and covered in cloth...?"
Shucks.
Shucks.
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Paros, Greece
Posts: 768
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Piperpilot - so how long ago was that first flight in G-BNOE and where? Thought you'd like to know I was up in her a couple of days ago and she's still going strong. I'm a little older than you were though.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 157
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
29
There seem to be two types of pilot - the youngsters who want to do it as a carear and us more mature people who have finally got enough money to do it and just do it as a hobby.
There seem to be two types of pilot - the youngsters who want to do it as a carear and us more mature people who have finally got enough money to do it and just do it as a hobby.
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Anywhere
Posts: 2,212
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
13 - Gazelle XX381
15 - Chipmunk (unknown)
22 - Gliding solo
25 - Gliding Instructor
34 - PPL
Now my twins - different matter. First flight in a Glider aged 4. One has flown a C172 with me at night, one has landed a PA38 with me - they would have been 10 at the time.
Don't hurt to start 'em young
CM
15 - Chipmunk (unknown)
22 - Gliding solo
25 - Gliding Instructor
34 - PPL
Now my twins - different matter. First flight in a Glider aged 4. One has flown a C172 with me at night, one has landed a PA38 with me - they would have been 10 at the time.
Don't hurt to start 'em young
CM
Last edited by Chilli Monster; 9th Jul 2002 at 17:17.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Kent
Posts: 603
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
14/10/00 - I was 13 and had my first light a/c flight, in a DR360 from Maypole (in the news section of Flyer this month!).
Have had 40ish flights since then, and am starting my PPL in a couple of weeks!
I turn 15 on the 25th of this month, but will be on holiday, so the lessons begin very soon after.......
tKF
Have had 40ish flights since then, and am starting my PPL in a couple of weeks!
I turn 15 on the 25th of this month, but will be on holiday, so the lessons begin very soon after.......
tKF
Some more money for Capt PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Ici
Age: 56
Posts: 271
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
First flying - in a light A/C: 1986, as a parachutist (48 jumps). Discovered I loved the flying more but couldn't afford to learn to fly as a was a poor first year student.
10yrs later and earning just about enough money to learn I did my PPL and then IMC. Now got 260hrs flying time and a share in a very nice 4 seater.
FujiF
10yrs later and earning just about enough money to learn I did my PPL and then IMC. Now got 260hrs flying time and a share in a very nice 4 seater.
FujiF
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: europe
Posts: 546
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
9 pasenger in Dragon Rapide, Northolt- London round trip
17 solo in Miles magister
18 whole other life
28 PPL
?? now busy passing medicals
Still remember that first flight and some of the Magister flights, especially the spinning.
17 solo in Miles magister
18 whole other life
28 PPL
?? now busy passing medicals
Still remember that first flight and some of the Magister flights, especially the spinning.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: North Weald, UK
Posts: 357
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Romeo Romeo, sadly, I'm afraid I have to agree with you.
(puts zimmer frame aside )
First flight was in a Twin Otter from Edinburgh to Lerwick aged 27 (me, not the aircraft).
First flight in a light a/c was in the US, with a work colleague.
Now, 20ish years on, I too fly for a hobby.
(puts zimmer frame aside )
First flight was in a Twin Otter from Edinburgh to Lerwick aged 27 (me, not the aircraft).
First flight in a light a/c was in the US, with a work colleague.
Now, 20ish years on, I too fly for a hobby.