Student Pilot at 50

"Ed" wrote in message
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My CFI is 79. He teaches aerobatics in a Decathlon.


"TF" wrote in message
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Sound like alot of wisdom in this newsgroup would appreciate the same
about
what my prospects can be starting at 50.

Like they all said... do it! In 1999 I started at age 67 and got my
Instrument ticket in 2002. Go for it!

Vince

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:32:30 -0500, "Vince"
wrote:

Like they all said... do it! In 1999 I started at age 67 and got my
Instrument ticket in 2002. Go for it!

We should form a club. I started same year, same age, though I settled
for a recreational cert.

It was definitely the case that my ground school was filled with
Dreams Deferred people. My guess is that the average age was 49 or 50.
We had two high-school kids who looked as if they'd wandered into the
wrong party; everyone else had a story to tell. Most had taken a few
lessons 20 or 30 years earlier and given up because of family or job
commitments. Others of us hadn't even gotten that far with the
project.

1999 of course was the top of the market, before the bubble burst. We
were all fat, rich, and happy in 1999.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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