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Vintage Pilots vs Modern Pilots Age Poll

201er

By 201er
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Geezers vs Spring Chickens  

142 members have voted

  1. 1. What’s your age?

    • 0-19
      0
    • 20-29
      7
    • 30-39
      21
    • 40-49
      30
    • 50-59
      42
    • 60-69
      31
    • 70-79
      10
    • 80-89
      1
    • 90-99
      0
    • 100+
      0

  2. 2. When did you start flying Mooney’s?

    • 0-19
      12
    • 20-29
      30
    • 30-39
      43
    • 40-49
      31
    • 50-59
      21
    • 60-69
      3
    • 70-79
      1
    • 80-89
      0
    • 90-99
      0
    • 100+
      1

  3. 3. Are you older than your Mooney?

    • Yes, but it’s a very new Mooney (post 2000)
      9
    • Yes
      66
    • No
      67

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Hank Grand Master

Hank

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26 minutes ago, 201er said:

I’d generally say when the vintage airplane is younger than the vintage pilot.

Cool! I was a Vintage Pilot when I first started my lessons, in planes a decade younger than the Mooney I bought later.

Student Pilot, Oct 2006 -- May 2007

Mooney Owner, June 2007 to future 

I hope one day to be vintage enough to qualify for retirement . . . . .

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David Lloyd Mentor

David Lloyd

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My Mooney rolled out of the factory the same week I moved to Charlotte to begin a new life.  Manager, business owner, vice president.  Started flight lessons and bought an airplane. Ticket on Friday, first business trip Sunday night.  Instrument rating, then bought a Mooney.  A lot of miles since.

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Seth Grand Master

Seth

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I was born in 1981, My Missile was born in 1983.

My first Mooney, a 1967 M20F I purchased when I was in my 20s.

I now have owned my 1983 Mooney Missile for 25% of it's lifetime, but nearly half it's time as a Missile!!

I have owned and operated an aircraft for exactly 1/3 of my lifetime.

-Seth

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carusoam Grand Master

carusoam

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I tried to avoid buying things that were older than me...  too much history to have to learn... kind of made an arbitrary starting point...

My first Mooney was a few months older than me... close enough to meet the requirement...

The second Mooney was 29yrs newer than the first... slightly older than my kids...

Learn one Mooney, the others will be very similar... the part numbers are probably different... just very similar in form and function...

PP thoughts only...

Best regards,

-a-

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EricJ Grand Master

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1 hour ago, DonMuncy said:

I want to know who that guy in the poll is, that started flying Mooneys past age 100.

That was me trying to interpret the question.   It asked "When did you start flying Mooneys?", which implied it's asking for a time or date, but the possible answers didn't make sense for that.   I thought maybe it was asking about how long ago you started flying Mooneys, but that didn't make sense, either.   Poorly worded questions get low quality answers.

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Andy95W Grand Master

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40 minutes ago, EricJ said:

That was me trying to interpret the question.   It asked "When did you start flying Mooneys?", which implied it's asking for a time or date, but the possible answers didn't make sense for that.   I thought maybe it was asking about how long ago you started flying Mooneys, but that didn't make sense, either.   Poorly worded questions get low quality answers.

So, what you meant is you started flying Mooneys 100+ years ago...

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Rusty Pilot Community Regular

Rusty Pilot

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I started flying at 16 in 1981 in a 1978 Cessna 172 and earned my license at 17.  The funny thing is now I fly a 1974 Mooney C and feel like it is not too old with electric gear, yet it is older than the plane I started flying in 40 years ago.  

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