Are you a first born?

[Seven Squared]

I have noticed that the vast majority of pilots that I have met are first born children.
I thought it would be interesting to see if this is actually true or that it has just been a
bizzare coincedence?

So to all pilots - are you the a first born?

P.S
I wanted to have a poll but I wasn't given the option
perhaps a moderator could ammend that.....

[wobblyprop]

I'm first born.

Someone i'm training with is the middle one. Someone else i'm training with is first born AFAIK.

[Localiser Green]

I recall doing a little test of this at OATS in a groundschool class and we effectively concluded from our (albeit small and statistically invalid!) experiment that it was actually a pretty mixed bunch.

More first borns of course but there are everywhere right? It wasn't significantly more...

I am a third born, my older cousin who flies for BA is a third born.

Would be interesting to take a random sample of pilots and put this to the test...

[McD]

If I remember correctly, this topic has been done previously at least once. Try a search on these forums, and you might find more information readily available. (However, I realize that some of these threads may have been lost over time, so no offense intended.)

FWIW, I'm a last-born (4th child), and know many other pilots -- all who have had a successful flying career for 15-30 years -- who are not first-borns.

It's an interesting theory, but I'm not quite sure that the actual reality supports the initial perception.

[Seven Squared]

I did try and search the forums, but I didn't find a thing? Maybe the thread got lost - maybe i'm just dumb!

I'll have a little search again.

[update]
Yep - I'm dumb!

Found the previous threadhere

From what I read of it, there appeared to be a first born majority.
It would be interesting to poll it - but for some reason I can't.

[rmmonteiro]

i´m first born, but i have people training with me that are 2nd and 3rd born.

cheers

RMM

[wandrinabout]

yup - first born also.

No. 3 in the sequence is also a pilot however.

[buduci kolega]

It is very interesting...I am firstborn,have a brother.My father and grandfather are also firstborns,and we are all pilots
There is also one more interesting thing I noticed:most of the pilots,some 70 percent,are of my height,or shorter.As I am 175cm tall,5 foot 10 inches,I think,I'd say we are a pretty short bunch

[Waldo]

I,m not the first born but am left handed. I believe a very high percentage of pilots are left handed (something to do with co-ordination)

[steamchicken]

Version 1.0 as well..

[Pilot16]

Im a first born as well! No one ever has been a pilot in my GENERATION ever...!

[The Boy Lard]

Crikey,

I'm first born, left handed AND 5' 10", this has to be an omen

TBL

[chiglet]

I'm firstbourne [sic] and an ATSA11. However I have noticed that a lot of ATSA111s and ATCOS are "left handed". I myself was left handed, but "forced" to use my right hand at school....am I a failure?
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy

[5150]

2nd of 2. Altho everyone thinks I'm older than no.1. Must be the flying that ages you.......

[IcarusGR]

Second Born, Left Handed, 5'10

[Justforkix]

First born, 6' and right handed. Often find that I'm the short one when flying with young FO's. Population getting taller all the time.

[MaximumPete]

First born, left handed and 6ft 3ins

MP

[Luis Laria]

1st Born...

Woops! I just asked ppl in my company and guess what? 70% is first born (me included). 80% is at least 1,80 height but only 25% is lefthanded.

Interesting

[Cool_Hand]

Fourth born, 5'10", left handed.

[ATPMBA]

Left Handed

I heard that flying is a right-brain activity, which controls the left hand which means it's more of an art than science. Many artists are left-handed, flight planning is left-brain activity, computations, etc. Landing in a cross-wind is right-brain.