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mine is an open question, I'm 27 but with the face, heart and body (roughly) of an 18 year-old. Is that to old to consider a career as a pilot. I don't have a PPL. All I've got is about a thousand hours on every PC flight sim availablle and a working knowledge of avaition. Replies would most appreciated 
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I got my CPL at 28, instructor rating at 29 and instrument rating at 30. No doubt I'm behind the eight ball as far as a job with a major airline goes but I'm working as an instructor /charterpilot and enjoy going to work each day! Its what I wanted to do, so I did it. I couldn't think of anything worse than looking back in ten years saying I should have, or what if.
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that's comforting to know as I'm aware that a job with a major airline would as likely Bush being award the Nobel Prize for peace. My grand intention would be to do just that get an instructor rating and then build up some PIC hours and maybe one day if St. Christopher blesses me (he is the patron saint of pilots right?) get a job as a corporate pilot.
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I think you'll find if you do a search, there's plenty of threads about this subject, with posts from guys who've got jobs with airlines at 39 etc.
If you want it bad enough ..... need I say more
If you want it bad enough ..... need I say more
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DD,
I hope you arn't too old as I recenetly started training via the modular route at 29.
Check out pilot pete's story
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...&threadid=6911
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I hope you arn't too old as I recenetly started training via the modular route at 29.
Check out pilot pete's story
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...&threadid=6911
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Do a search, it can be done.
I did my PPL at age 30, IR when 33 and got a job flying 737's at 34 with only 320 hours, and on my 73 course was one ex flying instructor, one ex banner tower and a guy straight out of Oxford and we were all the same age.
Just work hard and go for it.
I did my PPL at age 30, IR when 33 and got a job flying 737's at 34 with only 320 hours, and on my 73 course was one ex flying instructor, one ex banner tower and a guy straight out of Oxford and we were all the same age.
Just work hard and go for it.
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I started my PPL when I was 18, finished it when I was 26 (4 years at uni etc in between), CPL when I was 27 and instructor rating I'll have done at the tender age of 28. A lot of the guys at my flying school are in their late 20's-early 30's. The regional airlines are keen on the "older" pilot. Don't right yourself off yet! 
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Pprune is bulging at the seams with threads on "am I too old"?
If you choose a name like 'daredevil', why are you asking?
I have refrained from posting on these topics before as I am certainly not that old compared with some of the old codgers who started later than many.
Me? I did my PPL in 1999 at the age of 44, liked it too much so did my commercial in 2000, am now 48 and have flown, and been paid for it, in Angola, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria and the DRCongo (and still not been eaten by cannibals). I earn less than 10% of my previous earnings in Merry England and couldn't care less.
Adventure is a relative term, and so is flying (the best bit doesn't necessarily involve huge aeroplanes in the cruise but, to judge from most of PPrune, that is the only flying available - in fact only a fraction).
Oh, and Compton Abbas is still my favourite airfield in the world (hello Stuart!) - (with Bamiyan running a very close second).
In the immortal words of the ad, 'Just do it'.
Pprune is bulging at the seams with threads on "am I too old"?
If you choose a name like 'daredevil', why are you asking?
I have refrained from posting on these topics before as I am certainly not that old compared with some of the old codgers who started later than many.
Me? I did my PPL in 1999 at the age of 44, liked it too much so did my commercial in 2000, am now 48 and have flown, and been paid for it, in Angola, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria and the DRCongo (and still not been eaten by cannibals). I earn less than 10% of my previous earnings in Merry England and couldn't care less.
Adventure is a relative term, and so is flying (the best bit doesn't necessarily involve huge aeroplanes in the cruise but, to judge from most of PPrune, that is the only flying available - in fact only a fraction).
Oh, and Compton Abbas is still my favourite airfield in the world (hello Stuart!) - (with Bamiyan running a very close second).
In the immortal words of the ad, 'Just do it'.
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Good post Gerund
I am 44 and just finished my cpl/ir last week, now looking for a job. Like thousands of other people but I'm an optimist. You're only as old as you feel, or it is the woman you feel, I'm to old to remember.
I like the sentiment to "just do it"
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I am 44 and just finished my cpl/ir last week, now looking for a job. Like thousands of other people but I'm an optimist. You're only as old as you feel, or it is the woman you feel, I'm to old to remember.
I like the sentiment to "just do it"
blue skies
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"Hello.....WHAT..?....You`ll have to speak up sonny......hearing not what it was when I was young....it was all fields then.."....I was 35 when I started my PPL 37 on completion of my CPL and now 38 and working part-time as an Instructor and loving every minute of it.
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Ola DareDevil,
Tudo Bem?
You're never too old, my ex-flying instructor, who is around 50 years old recently got a job as a co-pilot with a cargo operator!
Anything just drop me a PM
Take Care
JP
Tudo Bem?
You're never too old, my ex-flying instructor, who is around 50 years old recently got a job as a co-pilot with a cargo operator!
Anything just drop me a PM
Take Care
JP
