How old is too old to fly?

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
"R. Hubbell" wrote in message
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Even if a pilot does not feel qualified to act as PIC he may still keep
flying by taking an instructor or pilot friend along with him. I regularly
fly with people whose skills have deteriorated so much that they can no
longer fly alone. Sometimes they have terminal diseases, such as cancer, but
they want to fly just one more time.

I also sometimes fly with disabled people who know that they will never be
able to get a pilot certificate, but who want to see what it is like to fly
an airplane at least once in their lives. Some of them come back once in
awhile. Often people like this will bring along a family member who will
take pictures of the flight.

I'm in my late fifties, and have never taken formal flight
instruction. I have flown three airplanes, and would like to become a
pilot. I have noticed in the last 5 years or so that it takes me a
LONG time to work through a problem that arises unexpectedly. That
discovery is one reason I chose not to seek a PPL. Lately, however, I
have considered taking lessons without the expectation that I could
ever be safe flying solo. The money I would spend on lessons would be
purely for the fun of being in the air at the controls for however
many hours I could afford to pay an instructor to babysit me.
Pokey