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How old were you when you hit your aviation Milestones?

Solo - 16
PPL - 17
IR - 24
Comm - 18
MEL - 25
SES - 25 (in progress)
CFI - 26 (hopefully, still TBD)
Purchased plane - 23

Trying to see how the rest of PoA stacks up rather than a generic "how old are you" Thread.
 
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Solo - 24
PPL - 25
IR - 31
Comm - 32
Plane co-owner - 35
 
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Solo - 28
Private - 28
IFR - 31
Purchase aircraft - 35
 
Solo - 30
Private - 30
Instrument - 32
Commercial - 32
Multi - 33
A&P - 33
CFI - 35
CFII - 35
MEI - 35
SES - 36

I bought my first airplane when I was 30. Personally owned 6 or 7 since then, not including the ones owned in business deals.
 
solo 14, (1954) license 16 (1956)
 
Interesting.

I bought the plane I solo'ed in, so plane purchase was my first milestone.

Plane - 26
Solo - 27
Private - 27
First and hopefully only off-airport landing - 29
Complex/High-Performance - 31
Instrument - 32
Commercial - 33
Multi - 33
CFI - 34
Turbine - 40
A&P - 42

Jeez, time flies when you're having fun and burning cash in a plane-shaped bonfire. :D
 
Solo - 17
PPL - 18
Instrument - 33
Commercial - 33
Multi - 34
CFI - 35
CFII - 36

Purchased plane - 34
 
Austin beat me by one year. I was 24 when I bought the Aztec. :)
 
Mtns2Skies said:
Yeah but you bought two engines and I only managed enough for one :)
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I barely managed enough for two.

I'm still barely managing enough for two, it's just that the two keep on getting bigger so that I maintain that same level of "barely enough". :)
 
Mtns2Skies said:
How old were you when you hit your aviation Milestones?

Solo - 16
PPL - 17
IR - 24
Comm - 18
MEL - 25
SES - 25 (in progress)
CFI - 26 (hopefully, still TBD)
Purchased plane - 23

Trying to see how the rest of PoA stacks up rather than a generic "how old are you" Thread.
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Solo - 17
PPL - 56
 
Solo - 19
Private - 20
Instrument, Commercial, CFI (SE, ME, and IR) - 20s
Multi, Helicopter add-on (Private and Commercial), Helicopter CFI - 30s
ATP , LR-JET, HS-125 - 40s
CE-680 - 51
 
Solo-16
PP-17
flew first biplane-17
purchased first airplane-23
purchased first biplane-55

My priorities are a bit different... :goofy:
 
Solo - 48
PPL - 49
IR - 51
Airstrip Home with backyard hangar - 56
Purchased 1st airplane - 60
Late bloomer!
 
Still don't own an airplane, so this thread bums me out!

Solo - 16
Private - 17
IR, Comm, CFI/II/MEI - early 20s
First turbine job - 25
ATP/first type - 27
SES - 40*


*somewhere that year (2018) I crossed 10,000 hours - it's not something I'd ordinarily care much about, but it gave me the same sort of OCD-like satisfaction as watching the odometer on a car tick over 100,000 miles. And now that I'm in my early 40s, I'm starting to feel like a car with that sort of mileage too! :D
 
PPL/IR - 18
Commercial - 19
CFI - 20
ATP/initial type - 22
First airline - 22
Legacy airline - 26
Next rating/next time I touch a plane - :dunno: :eek2:
 
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Solo-22
PPL SEL-23
CTO-27
COM/IR RW-30
IR FW-38
S70 type-46
MEL-47

Airplane purchase-34
 
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1st Solo - 25
2nd Solo - 44
PPL - 44
IR - starting soon
Comm -
MEL -
SES -
CFI -
Purchased 1st plane - 43
2nd plane - 45

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Solo - 24
PPL - 25
IR - 37
Comm - 38
Purchased plane - 49
 
Solo/PPL-37
Airplane purchase-38

Late bloomer. Always wanted to learn to fly, grew up around airplanes, dad has his PPL. Ironically, very nearly meeting my demise at Reno in 2011 convinced me to go for it sooner rather than later, after a period of not wanting to see or think about airplanes (which was a huge deal for me after a lifetime of fascination with flight, particularly warbirds).
 
First solo - 48
PPL - 48
Bought house on air park - 48
Bought first airplane - 48
GPL - 52
 
Solo: 40
PPL: 42
Space Cadet: 43
Astronaut: 44
 
Solo - 25
Bought plane - 38
Second solo - 38
PPL - 38

That's it so far. Need to do IR.
 
Solo - 34
PPL - 34
IR - soonish
 
Solo - 18
Private - 19
Instrument - 23
Commercial - 24
Multi - 24
CFI - 24
CFI - 25
ATP - 27
MEI - 37
CE-650 type -52
CL-604 Type - 53
First Atlantic Crossing - 54
 
Solo 48
PPL. 48
SEL 48
Purchased airplane 48
Complex/High HP. 48
IR Hopefully 49(working on it now)


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masloki said:
CFI at 19! Wow.
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Two thoughts about that.
1) I flew so much that year being in a car felt very strange.

2) Zero chance I’d let one of my kids get instruction from a 19 year old.

Many at 19 think (based on hard work and certificates in their wallets) that they are very qualified, myself included...in MY opinion, most don’t develop their adult brain until 25ish.
 
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