How many years have you been in Aviation?

sovereign · Post by **sovereign** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:38 pm

39 years / started when I was 16,

Jaques Strappe · Post by **Jaques Strappe** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:04 pm

18 years

J31 · Post by **J31** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:25 pm

21 years flying.......24 years as an engineer. It has been a good life

although trying at times

Merry Christmas

motox415 · Post by **motox415** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:22 pm

17 years

Jetman28 · Post by **Jetman28** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:34 pm

13 years

IFR Pilot · Post by **IFR Pilot** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:09 pm

Bought From the Ground Up in 1992... Ever since then...

zzjayca · Post by **zzjayca** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:48 pm

14 years.

KAG · Post by **KAG** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:27 pm

10 years, and still loving it!

Cheers.

Rubberbiscuit · Post by **Rubberbiscuit** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:33 pm

12 years...............and just as broke as when I started

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:09 pm

30 years, and still wondering what the hell I was thinking.....

BTD · Post by **BTD** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:03 pm

going on 7 years, started at 14. Now the real fun begins.

golden hawk · Post by **golden hawk** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:13 am

20 years

Flying Low · Post by **Flying Low** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:36 am

Total years in aviation: 20 years, 5 months
Total years since first flying job: 12 years, 5 months

The smile on my face: priceless!

just another pilot · Post by **just another pilot** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:28 am

16 years.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:59 am

35+ years. I don't ever remember not flying. I was fortunate (unfortunate?) enough to be born into a flying family.

My father's a pilot, and so was my uncle, my grandfather, and my great-uncle, whom in a rather spectacular but short-lived display of incredibly excessive balls-to-brains ratio, unsuccessfully tangled in an underpowered two-seater with Richtofen in 1917. He actually survived the encounter, but died afterwards - medical care was pretty negligible back then, I am given to understand.

WWI is actually fairly recent aviation history for my family. You probably wouldn't believe who my great-great-great-grandfather was.

Phlyer · Post by **Phlyer** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:36 pm

Who?
I have no idea who my great great great grandfather was.

pushyboss · Post by **pushyboss** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:44 pm

26 years.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:56 pm

um ... unless your family tree is a straight line (with the accompanying genetic risks associated with extreme inbreeding) you probably have 16 distinct great-great-great-grandfathers

Here's one of mine, Sir George Cayley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Cayley
http://www.flyingmachines.org/cayl.html
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cayley.html
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/cayley.htm

His nephew, my great-great-great-uncle, was the mathematician Arthur Cayley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cayley

who amongst other things invented matrix multiplication, something that will probably go over the head of this crowd.

You probably won't believe who another of my great-great-great-grandfathers was:

Sir John Beverley Robinson:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0842110.html

who was the de facto Prime Minister of Upper Canada, and was Chief Justice from 1830 from 1862. Osgoode Hall in Toronto used to be my family's estate.

You probably think I'm delusional, and full of sh1t. Fair enough. Truck on down to a well-equipped library, and ask them for their copy of "Burke's Peerage". Look up descendents of Sir John Beverley Robinson and Sir George Cayley (that branch of our family is documented back to the Norman Conquest) where you'll find my family as documented in my previous posting.

grounded · Post by **grounded** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:20 am

First Flight in 1990, started cleaning planes in 1992. 11 moves later ( 9 of them in 3 years) still making houses bigger and smaller.

fmrc3ame · Post by **fmrc3ame** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:29 am

21 years

Zatopec · Post by **Zatopec** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:39 am

13 years and two months.

CLguy · Post by **CLguy** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:33 pm

29 years, 3 months

cplanedriver · Post by **cplanedriver** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:48 pm

24 years, the first 15 for fun, the last 9 for fun and profit....OK OK, I'm bullshittin bout the profit part,

fly safe

nightguy · Post by **nightguy** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:09 pm

7 years. It sure does not feel that long.

flynbutcher · Post by **flynbutcher** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:53 pm

14 years and no job? You got to be kidding me! It was never that bad. ---------10 years for me.