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start 23 year hold, cpl instructing, now 33 Fo@Jazz accepted @AC waiting for a start date......I would have a date by now if I'd came from the street....

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19 instructor
22 citation 500 & pc12 pic
31 atc
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18 - flying skydivers
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19-21 cpl training


22 welder/fly recreationally uuuummmmmm not aviation related but thought i'd pitch in here
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BZH

How you figure, is that the way it goes if your at jazz??

Here it comes again
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19-21 ramp/flight trainning
21 PC12 FO
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-19 ramp

-22 Instructing 152, 172, 182 , PA28 etc

-23 Multi IFR Instructor
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28 Instructing.

Feel better ISTP?
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26 ramp

28 piston twin f/o

30 king air 200 f/o
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200hr Wonder wrote:28 Instructing.

Feel better ISTP?
27 instructing here (took a while to get the $ for all that training
Hows that ISTP?
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istp wrote:You guys are depressing me.

Someone pipe up with something over 30 at least!

-istp :smt087
Sorry buddy, working in the hangar at 16 and getting paid to fly at 18.. And now I'm 47 wondering why I didn't stay in school so I could have got a real job... :wink:
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19 - Towing gliders in Beautiful Pemberton during a summer off from
university.

Up and away from there.
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Justwannafly wrote:
200hr Wonder wrote:28 Instructing.

Feel better ISTP?
27 instructing here (took a while to get the $ for all that training
Hows that ISTP?
Thanks, I feel better. I still have faith in the younger generation.

-istp :P
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19-22 Flt training/college
23 ramp beatch / photo flying 172 (2months) / ramp
24 PA31 f/o airborne surveys (3months) / ramp beatch
25 BE90&PA31 f/o & 206 driver & (trying to be Raybanmans prodigy)
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19 Capt BN2A
20 f/o B1900D
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42 - Instructing
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32 fo HS 748
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Ahh, finally some elders.

Me...33 - C172 doing fire patrols N. Vancouver Island

Getting a shot as DHC-2 driver 5 years later on the wet coast.
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19 Navajo
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24 big bright red train diesels
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13 - dock
21 - PPC'd on two twins

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rampie 13
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14 ramp, 15 right seat driving, discovering the pedals, not the steering kept the plane on the runway, 16 first solo, 18 instructor
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21 - ramp/CSR/Base Manager
22 - PC12/BE10 FO
23 - PC12 captain

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started flying when 15, CPL at 20 finally became a float pilot at 21
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15 - Started Training
18 - Airshows (volunteer)
26 - 172 Sightseeing tours
26 - Disptacher
27 - PC-12
30 - 1900
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