At what age did you start logging time towards your first pilot license?

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jesus wept!


Almost all old farts?

what age is that? I'm wondering it the way I feel is how I should feel,
by definition!

KC

Kevin Clarke wrote in
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jesus wept!


Almost all old farts?

what age is that? I'm wondering it the way I feel is how I should feel,
by definition!


Do you like Fitty cent?


Bertie

Jim Logajan wrote in
:

So I wonder how many of you I can get to (reasonably) honestly answer
the following three questions:

(1) In which age range below did you start logging time towards your
first pilot certificate?

31


(2) In which age range below did you acquire your (non-student) pilot
certificate?

32

(3) How old are you now?

38

(4) What is your favorite color?

Blue.
No - Yellow.
aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(1) In which age range below did you start logging time towards your first
pilot certificate?
[ 16] [16 - 20] [21 - 30] [31 - 40] [41 - 50] [51 - 60] [61 - 70] [ 70]

16


(2) In which age range below did you acquire your (non-student) pilot
certificate?
[ 16] [16 - 20] [21 - 30] [31 - 40] [41 - 50] [51 - 60] [61 - 70] [ 70]

17

(3) How old are you now?
[ 16] [16 - 20] [21 - 30] [31 - 40] [41 - 50] [51 - 60] [61 - 70] [ 70]

23

(4) What is your favorite color?


blue

Nomen Nescio wrote in
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From: Bertie the Bunyip

Almost all old farts?

what age is that? I'm wondering it the way I feel is how I should
feel, by definition!


Do you like Fitty cent?

Pick one
[Yes] [No] [Who?] [Despise the SOB] [I dunno] [Not as much as Fitty
bucks]

If you answered/you are

Yes/ Young (but you have no taste in music)
No/ Young (there may be hope for you)
Who?/ Middle age, no kids
Despise the SOB/ Middle age parent
I dunno/ You're on the Jury
Not as much as Fitty bucks/ Yea, you're an old fart.


Tehnkew.

Bertie

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:30:15 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio
wrote:

Do you like Fitty cent?

Pick one
[Yes] [No] [Who?] [Despise the SOB] [I dunno] [Not as much as Fitty bucks]

If you answered/you are

Yes/ Young (but you have no taste in music)
No/ Young (there may be hope for you)
Who?/ Middle age, no kids
Despise the SOB/ Middle age parent
I dunno/ You're on the Jury
Not as much as Fitty bucks/ Yea, you're an old fart.

Yes / 42 YO, but Fitty lives in the area and his house is for sale.

$14,000,000, 53 room, 50,000+ sq/ft. homes are still news 'round here.

In message , Jim Logajan
writes
I saw the following poll at Doug Reeve's "Van's Airforce" and was mildly
surprised to see almost 70% first logged time under the age of 30 (at least
at the time I last looked):

http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ad.php?t=22591

So I wonder how many of you I can get to (reasonably) honestly answer the
following three questions:

(1) In which age range below did you start logging time towards your first
pilot certificate?
[ 16] [16 - 20] [21 - 30] [31 - 40] [41 - 50] [51 - 60] [61 - 70] [ 70]

(2) In which age range below did you acquire your (non-student) pilot
certificate?
[ 16] [16 - 20] [21 - 30] [31 - 40] [41 - 50] [51 - 60] [61 - 70] [ 70]

(3) How old are you now?
[ 16] [16 - 20] [21 - 30] [31 - 40] [41 - 50] [51 - 60] [61 - 70] [ 70]

(4) What is your favorite color?

My own answers:
(1) [51 - 60]
(2) Working on it.
(3) [51 - 60] Some days it feels like on the upper side of that range,
others on the lower side.
(4) Arrest-me-red.

16 - 20

16 - 20

41 - 50

Fire engine red

--
Keith

eOn Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:05:50 -0700, Kingfish
wrote:

After reading these replies, I see Boyer wasn't kidding when he said
the pilot population is aging : ) (I know, I know... I'll get there
someday too...)

Okay, that inspires me to answer:

68
69
75
(luckily, I don't have a favorite color)

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

30, 30, 70, no favorite, but I do hate orange, yellow, and brown
airplanes.

Dropped out at age 34 for financial reasons (divorce) and didn't start
again until age 60, got my IR at 65.

Jim Logajan wrote:
Here are some histograms of the responses generated as of 2:52 my time
today:

(1) In which age range below did you start logging time towards your
first pilot certificate?

[ 0-15] ======
[16-20] ===
[21-30] ========
[31-40] ==
[41-50] ==
[51-60] ==
[61-70] =
[70-..]
[Other] =

(2) In which age range below did you acquire your (non-student) pilot
certificate?

[ 0-15]
[16-20] =========
[21-30] ========
[31-40] =
[41-50] ===
[51-60] =
[61-70] =
[70-..]
[Other] ==

(3) How old are you now?

[ 0-15]
[16-20] =
[21-30]
[31-40] =
[41-50] =========
[51-60] =========
[61-70] ===
[70-..] =
[Other] =

(4) What is your favorite color?

[Black] =
[White] =
[Yellow] =
[Green[1]] ===
[Blue[2]] ======
[Red] =====
[Orange] =
[Other[3]] =======

[1] Includes "blue, no green" and "blue green."
[2] Includes "low lead blue," "midnight blue," and "red, no blue."
[3] Includes "four shalt thou not count...," "you only asked for three,"
"don't have one," "five,,,,,,no, three," "red, no blue, no," "blue, no
wait," and a non-response.

This is really very interesting. At our local EAA chapter meeting we are
always looking to get younger folks to join and learn about aviation. As
I look around (and I am 61) pilots now tend to be gray haired folks.
Those that still have hair. Your #3 question shows that we are an aging
population. I know that this is not a scientific study, but I think it
does reflect what is going on. I have not read any other comments yet,
I'll scroll down and see.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI