Dick

The following item was in this weeks Monday AVWEB...

"Cliff Garl satisfied a lifelong dream and may have set a record of sorts
last week. The 91-year-old Shoreline, Wash., student pilot soloed for the
first time over Arlington Airport. "You go into a nursing home and you'll
see people a lot younger than he just sitting there," Garl's 75-year-old
instructor Joe Bennett told The Seattle Times. "I actually don't know of
anybody, even in their 80s, who's soloed." According to the Times, the FAA
didn't have records of any student pilots over the age of 90 in 2004 and
showed only 59 in their 80s. Garl told the Times he was nervous before the
flight but once in the cockpit of the Cessna 172, the training took over. As
might be expected, the medical was Garl's biggest obstacle -- even though
he's in good health."

The full acticle went on to say that Garl hopes to attain his PP
certificate.

Go for it! Aloha, Dave Fase

"R.W. Behan" wrote in message
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There can be no better source of advice than this group for my question:
am I too old to take up flying--and building an airplane?