Age When You Passed Inst. Check Ride

Age when you Passed Knstrument Check Ride?

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Old enough to know better, too young to care.
 
Any chance you could add a "not passed yet" option for those of us poor VFR pilots who want to see the results? I'm approaching 60 and starting to worry that I waited too long.
 
edit - doggone Tapatalk— I didn’t realize at first this thread has a poll. I posted a reply, then thought to log in with a browser to check whether there’s a poll, and sure enough there is one. Happens all the time to me, unless the OP mentions that there’s a poll connected to the OP.
 
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Ed Haywood said:
Any chance you could add a "not passed yet" option for those of us poor VFR pilots who want to see the results? I'm approaching 60 and starting to worry that I waited too long.
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You didn't wait too long. I'm certain of that because I'm only about 10 years behind you, and I haven't done it either, and I didn't wait too long. I'm sure it's not going to be a walk in the park, but I'm certain it's possible as I know a couple of pretty goofy people who did it.
 
29 rotorcraft and 38 for fixed wing. Pacing myself.
 
Pilawt said:
18, in this airplane:

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CFI-I at 19, in a Cherokee 140 with similar equipment, except the single Narco Mark 12A had 360 channels instead on 90, and it had a glideslope.
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Yep, I flew many hours behind Narco Mark12 A & B’s. Also flew IFR with no transponder as well. First time I got to fly in an airplane that had a DME I thought that was so high tech!

And no headsets. Hand mic and cabin speaker. Fun times.
 
26 and 65. After taking almost 30 years off from flying and then returning, I consider the IPC I got equivalent to a new IR. GPS hadn’t been invented yet the first time. I wanted to get into the space age. The CFII said let’s just do an IPC steam gauge and then we can work on GPS. Just took a couple flights and he said you pass, but I said no, I’ll wait until I have GPS mastered before you sign it off. It was with a 430, no autopilot. The POS planes I was flying were not well rigged, no amount of trimming made them hands off flyers.
 
Doc Holliday said:
Also flew IFR with no transponder as well.
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"Cessna niner four Juliet, for radar identification turn left heading one two zero ... "

And with that 90-channel Mark 12 ...

CLNC: " ... Departure control on 127.2 ... "
Me: "Um ... Unable 127.2."
CLNC: "<sigh> OK, departure 118.1."​
 
Doc Holliday said:
And no headsets. Hand mic and cabin speaker. Fun times.
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My dad claimed he was hard of hearing in one ear because he used to wear a telex headset in the other.

He was deaf in both…when I flew with him, I had to turn up the volume to my headset so I could hear it over his speaker.
 
Just for fun(?) I flew a '46 C-120 under IFR to Bakersfield. It had a similar panel.

The only difficult part was all the non-radar procedures, since the Central Valley had no TRACON.

PTA-TEN, Oh yeah!
 
45 for me. I'd training for it haphazardly for about 15 years when I finally knuckled under and had PIC send me an instructor to get me through the rating.
 
Age 34 or 35, I don't remember. It was when the US airspace changed from Terminal Control Areas, Control Zones and Airport Traffic Area to Class B and Class D so I had to know both for the oral.

I busted the first try on the NDB approach. We continued the ride finishing up everything else. On the re-ride all we did was the NDB approach, then back to the airport for a visual landing.

Uh oh..... I haven't done a visual landing in a long time. I was certain I was going to bust the IFR check ride due to a bad visual landing. But after the landing the plane was in good enough shape to be used again, so I passed.!!
 
IK04 said:
Just for fun(?) I flew a '46 C-120 under IFR to Bakersfield. It had a similar panel.

The only difficult part was all the non-radar procedures, since the Central Valley had no TRACON.

PTA-TEN, Oh yeah!
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When was that? I remember when Stockton and Bakersfield were Non Radar but they had it by the early/mid 80's. Lemoore/Fresno had most of the space in between with Radar back to the mid 60's. When Castle first got Radar I don't know for sure but it was there by the late 70's.
 
had to go back an look....25....just a couple months shy of 26. Wow....Hard for me to imagine that now that I've had my rating longer than I had been alive when I earned it.
 
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