Started flying regularly at 16. First solo at 16, PPL 17, currently 18 (although 19 tomorrow).

My trusty steed is some 8 years older than me.

37 years older than my Mark 1 Thruster TST.
I look like Santa .......

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:

1) You believe in Santa Claus.
2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.
:sad:

Well I've got the record (so far) for years older than my aircraft - 43. (Aircraft is 0 - still being built)

36 with 1 wife, 1 son and, sadly, only limited funds (and time) for flying! Ah, these young people have it easy!

39 ... 1 wife (bugger! are more an option?) 5 kids and even less money and time for flying. :ugh:

Homebuilt aeroplanes are my saviour ... and farm strips :ok:

SS

As old as I feel.

Or perhaps as someone else I might manage to feel.....:E

On the local TV last night there was a piece about an 81-year old pilot about to set off in a replica SE5A to St Omer. Now THAT puts any of us to shame!

And I'm very slightly older than the lovely Pinkster !!

The cracker about the bit on TV re: the 81 year old flying his SE5A from Popham to St Omer was the final shot of his wife, vainly trying to get into their car and realising the old b*gg*r had taken the keys with him. A classic................

I loved his comment about making sure he had the support of She Who Must Be Obeyed as well, I wonder how many of us suffer slight hostility from that direction from time to time?

"I wonder how many of us suffer slight hostility from that direction from time to time?"


hmmmm ... to true, :\ I take back my comment about the option of more wives :uhoh:

SS

Mariner9

Ah well, at least you held the record.....

51 years older than G-BXLP

It just keeps on getting better!:ok:

They do say that your only as old as the woman you feel!

Unfortunatly since shes the same age as me im still 24.

Oh I wish! :p

SS

Happened to two of my friends at Bristol - as they ascended P2 says to P1 "Have you got the spare set of keys?"
"Yes" says P1, "I left the master set in the ignition in the retrieve".
"Bugger", says P2, "I put them in my pocket to keep them safe...."

Retrieve driver below is going frantic, thinking that she's lost them!

Checklists - don't you just love them? :{


Ripline

18 years old, nearly 100 hours total.
but cant fly anymore because the government seems to think i should pay for my education

That damn government:mad:

In the same boat as you, Looks like i will have to put my flying on hold for a couple of years till i graduate:{ :{ :{

Why oh why did i go back to uni:=

150 years and 22 hours (self-paid!) total time - or was it the other way around?:E

Jeez there's a lot of young 'uns on here. I'm 35, but you guys are making me feel damn old! :*

How Old.
 

Well ;

I was a war baby:


Work that out.


My little piece in Flyer Mag (Sept) gives a few clues.

Cheers

... and I'm older than Cusco.

I'm two years older than my wife. When she was born, Japan immediately surrendered.

And I've loved every bit of it!

Hey Andyb - I went back to Uni at age 53. Life is for living!

Im 31, a wife, mortgage and a little girl too and wishing he was 16 again, gees life's a bitch :{ :{ :{

Uni....
 

Omcaree...join the club!

slightly off topic i know, but are there any loughborough students on here? thats where i'm off to at the end of this month.
they have a flying club there, which is handy, but still i think i'll be taking up gliding (cheaper without the engine)

Only two and a half years until I'm celebrating my thirtieth birthday. Or should that be drowning my sorrows?

Ten years ago I thought by now I'd be working behing a desk, maybe own a house, car and be seeing a nice girl, whilst staring with glazed eyes up at the skies loning to be one you aviators.

In reality I am indeed working behind a desk, have my own car, but I don't own my own house yet due to this flying lark! Six hundred hours and a variety of different licences and certificates haven't really left me any spare cash over for the mortgage... oh and no girlfriend either.

I really should get my priorities right one day.

Best wishes,

Charlie Zulu.

Omcare...How about joining EMUAS - the UAS which serves loughborough uni
It's not compulsory to join the RAF afterwards.

I'm 20 so I'm less than a third the age of my trusty steed.

ACW, you don't work in Hounslow do you?

Omcaree, I agree, join the UAS if you can, I would have if they weren't such a bunch of eyesight fascists......

I was considering the UAS, but i used to be in the air cadets and got sick of the RAF side of it.
obviously UAS is more flying based, but still seems a bit too much like the RAF for me.
I'll probably still give it a go, but if anything i'll fail on medical grounds, was surprised enough when i got a class 2 with no problems.

Tiger_Moth...

Where's Hounslow?!
PM me LOL do you know me?

Air Cadets is very different to the RAF Omcaree.

omacree check your PM's




as for the actual age thing.. :p