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How many years have you been flying?

Not a Pilot
0
No votes
Not a Pilot (yet)
0
No votes
Less than a year
0
No votes
More than a year, less than two
0
No votes
More than two, less than five
1
6%
More than five, less than ten
1
6%
More than ten, less than twenty
2
13%
More than twenty, less than forty
9
56%
More than forty
3
19%
 
Total votes: 16
Squaretail
Posts: 472
Joined: Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:21 pm
Location: Group W Bench

How many years has it been since that first flight? It gets longer with every telling. Polls are fun!


The details of my life are quite inconsequential...
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Nark
Posts: 630
Joined: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:29 pm
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December 27th, 1997.

C-FWQC
Twin Beech restoration:
www.barelyaviated.com
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Colonel
Posts: 2564
Joined: Wed Jan 15, 2020 10:02 pm
Location: Over The Runway

1973 at Toronto Island in Maule VOJ

I was young. They told me it was art. I needed the money.

1973 was when I started getting serious dual. Before that I was just a pax tagging along, in the 1960’s, freezing my feet in FMP a Champ on skis at the Kingston Flying Club. First aerobatics was in a Jodel, maybe around 1970?
45 / 47 => 95 3/4%
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mcrit
Posts: 146
Joined: Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:13 am

Mar 87, ZBX.
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Big Pistons Forever
Posts: 211
Joined: Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:05 pm

Laurentide Aviation was were I had my first official lesson October 1 1976 with Robbie Schofield, nephew of the legendary Jack Schofield. Jack taught my father how to fly in 1954.

Looking back the 1970’s were the glory days of GA. Laurentide sold 50 new Cessna’s a year. I remember one day I showed up and there were 6 brand new Cessna 185’s parked in the grass next to a stack of new Edo floats. Everyday the shop would fit a set of floats and launch them off the runway on the dolly.

The birth dates of my last few Instructor ride candidates were after 9-11. I am reluctantly coming to the realization my time as a youth might be coming to an end……
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Colonel
Posts: 2564
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BPF: I can handle one generation gap, but I think it’s time for us to quit when we have two generations between us and the youngsters.

When you were starting out, I’m sure your grandparents were even more of a pain in the ass than your parents.

You’ll have to excuse me now. I see a cloud - I have to go out into my front yard and yell at it
45 / 47 => 95 3/4%
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David MacRay
Posts: 823
Joined: Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:16 am

Should I be voting not a pilot in these?
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Slick Goodlin
Posts: 953
Joined: Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:24 am

David MacRay wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:44 am
 Should I be voting not a pilot in these?
Nah, it’s kinda like being a Marine.
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Nark
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Slick Goodlin wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:51 am
David MacRay wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:44 am
 Should I be voting not a pilot in these?
Nah, it’s kinda like being a Marine.
I spit my crayon out laughing.

We done sir.
Twin Beech restoration:
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Big Pistons Forever
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Colonel wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:06 pm

When you were starting out, I’m sure your grandparents were even more of a pain in the ass than your parents.
The funny thing was the older I got the smarter my father got 8-)
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