July 28, 1985

[Sluggo63]

My first flight lesson, thirty-seven years ago today. A few weeks shy of my 16th birthday.

N757QN (C-152)
LDJ-LDJ
0.9

How time flies…

 

[kayoh190]

My first flight lesson, thirty-seven years ago today. A few weeks shy of my 16th birthday.

N757QN (C-152)
LDJ-LDJ
0.9

How time flies…

Ha! Linden, my current GA stomping grounds!

Congrats, man.

 

[Ted]

And I'd turned a year old not that long ago, across the river in Manhattan. Small world.

Congrats, what an adventure that lesson's turned into.

 

[EdFred]

Mine was Jul 23, but only 20 years ago.
N3979K

 

[MauleSkinner]

My first flight lesson was when I was 12…other than that, I have no memory of it. I think I remember the date that I passed my Private Pilot checkride, but I definitely remember the date that I took my Private Pilot written. It just happened to be the day my dad crashed his spray plane, and when my brother, cousin, and I got home from our written tests, we had to help pick the airplane up out of the field.

 

[Sac Arrow]

I was working a project just south of KAPC, and one day decided to go over there just to sniff around a bit. The next thing I knew, I was up in a 152 getting my first flight lesson.

 

[TCABM]

Just checked. 7/19/90 was my first flight; a little over 16 years old.

 

[eman1200]

I never realized it but my first flight was on April 1st. I guess the April fools joke was flying in a high wing. What a fool I was.

 

[Rgbeard]

for my first flight as a pax, I was 2yo, and this would have been 1969.

for my first flight as a student it was much later. June 10, 1984.

 

[RyanB]

I just had my 9 year anniversary of my first solo on Tuesday. 7/26/13.

N68810
2A0 Airport

 

[Sluggo63]

Ha! Linden, my current GA stomping grounds!

Congrats, man.

That’s awesome. I grew up pretty close to LDJ.

I started flying there when they had the two runways. Man, I feel old!

 

[a572mike]

I was 11 years old that summer, riding my dirt bike all the time and building model airplanes...

 

[Charlie Golf]

It all began for me on 7/8/88 with an intro flight in a Traumahawk.

 

[saddletramp]

Congratulations. I took my first flight lesson on my 16th birthday in 1972. June 14th marked 50 years in aviation.

I'm in my retirement years now a days & instructing full time hoping to recapture some of the funds I've frittered away.

 

[NealRomeoGolf]

7/17/03 was my first lesson (non discovery flight) so next year will be 20 years. Unfortunately didn't finish my license until 2016.

 

[Bill]

11/23/03 - 1st lesson
11/10/04 - PPL checkride
01/15/05 - high performance endorsement
03/05/04 - aerobatics course with former naval aviator
05/24/05 - 1st instrument lesson
05/28/05 - received both spin and tailwheel endorsements - haven’t flown a TW since :-(
12/09/05 - instrument airplane checkride
08/25/08 - complex airplane endorsement

Kind of a fun ride down memory lane going thru the log book!

 

[Zeldman]

Since July 28, 1985 was a Sunday, I was probably at a race track somewhere.

 

[Dan Thomas]

49 years ago in May, for me. In a 1967 C172, only six years old! Nice, fairly new airplane. How many students get instruction six-year-old 172s now?

 

[Ghery]

Our12th wedding anniversary.

First flight lesson was about 15 years later.