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

Was 11 in PA28..on 15th Birthday got a go in a B757 simulator for 2 hours,landed at Kai Tak and JFK..great stuff!!
now 21.

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!!)

:D :D :D

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 :)

:)

Forgot to ask....given Im 31 now I guess Im no longer a younger member...oh well!! :rolleyes:

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! :D :D

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 :D :D - 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!

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

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.

30

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.

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.

34. G-BMXL, PA38 at BA Flying Club, Booker.

35 now.

Or 33 if you count the trip up in a glider at Lasham, which I think is where my obsession started!!:D

I was a passenger in a C172 a few years ago, but first P.u/t was last summer, age 27 - parents never took the hint, so it had to wait until I could pay for it.... ;) :)

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

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

20 years old. 6 weeks to get PPL in 1995.

Now fATPL 1500 hours hopefully airline F/O this year.

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 :) :)

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.

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.

Age four in Cessna 172 - don't know reggie.

Started PPL age 19 when I got a job earning barely enough dosh..took 18 months to get licence.