How old are you??

[SpeedBird22]

19 years young, 46 hrs PPL, grudgingly studying for a law degree at Oxford Brookes University.

[Capt L]

Nearly 23, nearly 200hrs, nearly CPL

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Blue Skies and Soft Landings

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

26.

WWW

[Turned and Slipped]

Just a Sprog of 22, PPL/IMC, Class 1 Medical and about 100hrs.

Currently working in Airline Maintenance Programmes.

[Loony_Pilot]

22 years old, CAP509 grad in Jan 2000, Fzn ATPL, 280hours, searching for that elusive first commercial job

LP

[jonathang]

18 and Studying for a degree in Computer Science at Edinburgh Univercity.

[Patsy 001]

23 and a goddam bean counter!

[Sagey]

22 coming to the end of my degree in 5 weeks

Yippeeeeeeeeeee that is if I get it lol, don't do economics people it is so dull!!! and the maths oh my god (WAY ABOVE A LEVEL STANDARD ((( )

Going on the sponsorship route, if I don;t get it, work every minute I possible can route to get money together,whilst not spending much, then probs sponsorship route again the following year and then hopefully will have enough money (if don;t get it), if I include loans, bank robberies, major tax fraud(ps this is a joke if any tax officer is reading <g> ).

Sagey

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[TheNavigator]

30 years old but with a lot of motivation and commitment to give it a shot!

Only about 20 mins in a trial flight which was only the first ...

Hopping to complete PPL by this summer, start ATPL training shortly after, finish the PhD, get a FI rating, get ATPL and finally a deserved airline job !

Good luck everyone!

TheNavigator

[Voodoo 3]

Started flying at 18. PPL then CPL/IR followed. Got a FI(R) to help find a job. Became a QFI after instructing for a while. Now flying 737 NG. 24 in June.

[AV8 consultants]

39 in three months.
630 hours MECIR , Instructor
Bsc Aviation , Teaching diploma

[FLYINGCHICK]

I'm 18 and have my CPL, MEIR with about 400hrs TT, working as a pilot now and just like some of you working towards the airlines.

[rockaria]

I am 25 (very nearly 26! ) 115tt inc PPL in the middle of IMC training. Start ATPLs in May. Luckily no kids etc to think about!

[foghorn]

Old enough not to remember whether I've contributed to this thread already, and too lazy to look, so here goes (again?)

28 years old PPL/IMC/Nt 190TT 7/7 ATPL passes so far, CPL/IR starts in June.

[ickle black box]

23 1/2. Decent job in IT, but desperatly want to fly instead. 88 hours, and trying to decide wether to do an IMC, or hours or atpl distance learning.

ickle

[Call the tower]

Well maybe I am the youngest here at 18 yrs old with 90 hours total. And of course hold a PLL got that @ 50 hours!

Tower

[Rote 8]

25 Nearly finished PPL Approx 53 hrs. Spent far too long doing my PPL due to lack of cash and time spent working in the US. Saving up now for my Class 1. My optician thinks I will be OK but I am a bit marginal. Annoyed that I can not apply for BA CEP scheme even if I do manage to get a Class 1.
Probably going to have to fully self sponsor.

Best of luck to all of you(except those funded by your dad - You have already got all the luck you need)

Cheers

[capt_kangeroo]

34, PPL, IMC and Multi this summer. Distance learning for ATPL's and then an instructors rating, me thinks.....

[StephenM]

I'm an 18 year old student currently studying for a degree in Computing.

I have 1 hour on my flying log coz I cannot afford to take it any further.

I have been rejected by BA once, last october, so I'll be trying again later this year.

[Borg32]

Hmmm, this is a very interesting (if a little depressing at times) thread.

32 - Company Director (since I was 19 ..my company)
My job roles - accountant, payroll dolly, coffee maker, cleaner AND chief bottle washer = 100+ hours per week...OH and I have to find the work for 20 people!!...PLEASE let me be a pilot.

From a business background, one thing jumps out at me. Having read several threads and postings on pprune, you guys have spent literally millions of pounds (or several million dollars)to follow your dream i.e. PPL CPL ATPL(frozen!!) IR etc etc. Commercial sense tells me there MUST be a better way to make this dream come true. COMBINED, YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT A SMALL AIRLINE WITH THIS MONEY!!.

OATS CABAIR etc. etc. methinks they got the dry side of the bed!! fly and get wannabes to pay.

Who would you like to be your boss? Stavros, or a community of pilots?

A bit long-winded but something is stirring in my noggin..not sure what yet.

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