Who on POA has been a pilot the longest?

SixPapaCharlie

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I'm reading the pass your private checkride thread I saw someone posted they have been a pilot for 44 years.

If you are a currently active pilot, how long have you been a certificated pilot?

I'm curious who here has the " highest seniority".

Just crossed 14 years myself.
 
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ateamer said:
@geezer
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pmanton soloed before I did, so probably a pilot sooner

ateamer is right

The Geezer is hard to beat on this competition.

65 years, 6 months.

When I quit flying at KCGS, College Park MD, I had been flying from it more than half its existence. :)

The Wright brothers established it, and provided instruction to the first Army Aviators.

I was the oldest pilot there with a valid medical for a number of years.

Time since first flight, 76 years, 6 months. give or take a couple of months. A flight with my father's instructor.


A different type of record, today my wife and I celebrated our 64th wedding anniversary. That takes some of the same dedication as keeping a plane flyable, and the pilot skilled.
 
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geezer said:
I agree with MaulSkinner, his thread should not die because my numbers are so high.

I DID NOT POST UNTIL ATEAMER PUT MY NAME UP.

Keep on posting, guys and gals, this is interesting. :)
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I agree. I also want to know who the newest pilots are.
This is fun
 
We should branch off another game: combined years pilot + years PoA.
 
Tools said:
Born 6 May 66.

First lesson 6 May 76.

First cert (student pilot) and solo 6 May 82.

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I was born about 3 months before you, but my logbook doesn’t start until 1978. I’m thinking I didn’t solo until later in the summer if ‘82…in fact I’m sure of it. I spent June and July in AK with my grandpa that year.

I do know that I took my Private written on June 12, 1981…that was the day my dad crashed his sprayplane, and when my brother, cousin, and I got home from our written test we had to help pick the airplane up out of the field.
 
I recently posted some accident vs. age information to another thread. This bit of art was generated at the same time, and may be of interest. It's based on the 2023 FAA pilot statistics, and plots the number active pilots vs. age. Age is in five-year blocks (i.e., 20 to 24 years, 25 to 29 years, etc.).
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Ron Wanttaja
 
My respect to you all. I’d have to still be flying at 100 y.o. to make 50 years. Paltry 10 year pilot. My plane will be 90 then…
 
It depends on who you ask:

If you ask me:
I have been a pilot since I was 4 years old. Had my hand out of the window of my mom's 65' Comet doing 6 g turns headed to the A&P.

If you ask the FAA (and we ALL know how "they" are) 20 years.


Choose wisely.:cornut:
 
First solo in July 1996, so 30 years.
 
33 years. I was 20 when i passed my private checkride.
 
25 years. I was gonna say that flying fast makes it longer, but actually I think physics disagrees, as relative time slows down as one approaches the speed of light :p
 
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