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So how did you come to like aviation? Here is how I think it started for me.

As a kid, I almost believed that I was going to be an astronaut or pilot. When I was young, I frequently went to an airbase every weekend and saw fighter pilots eat. Then at 6 years of age, my uncle who flies 747s let me into his cockpit in flight. Then at 8, my uncle let my fly a simulator of an airbus. It was pretty much a dream until I was 17. Then I decided that it was more realistic to become an engineer. I

Well for me it started aged 4 on a flight from London to New York, and in those days (millenia ago) you were allowed in the cockpit and could annoy the pilots
Then as a teenager I joined the ATC and discovered military aviation, and logged lots of hours on the Chippie... I've been hooked for most of my life!
A couple of years ago I got back into flying when I got FS2k2 as a nameday present, and I ended up here looking for downloads, and couldn't get carrier ops working... the rest is history

6 or 7 years ago I saw a documentary on PBS about the 777. i dont know why...but somehow i was hooked after that. shortly after that a friend of the family found out I had an interest in aviation, so he took me flying one day, in a Stearman. #17  ;D i will never forget that day

my dad got me hooked when I was really young, 3 or 4 maybey, first flight was in a bell 206 when I was 8, first time at the controls was a Jodel when I was 11, first jump was when I was 16, like Mark I was also in the ATC, I'm now 18 and studying aero-mechanical engineering. Flying is and more or less always has been in my blood and always will be .

Craig  8)

Well, It all started 10 years ago when I was in first grade.  I live in houston, so I am near nasa, and an astronaut came to  talk to our class.  I was so impressed that I wanted to be an astronaut.  

However, I am very persistent, so I actually did research, and realized that I didn't want to be an astronaut.  First I decided to be a rocket scientest, and then an astronomer.  But now I am in tenth grade, and In two years I will go to college and study to be an Aerospace Engineer.

My extreme love for aviation probably started when I got FS98, but I owe my extreme obsession to simviation.  After I got FS9, I became so much into aviation that now I am obsessed.  I can recognize most planes at the airport, and know so much now that I annoy my parents.

I travel alot, but I have never flown in anything smaller than an ERJ-145, but I hope to begin flying gliders soon.

I've had an obsession with aviation all my life. Even my mom has told me that I was really into it even as a toddler

I think things that do weird stuff and make loud noises.

I've had an obsession with aviation all my life. Even my mom has told me that I was really into it even as a toddler

lol, same here... :-) Kind of runs in the family as well...my dad and both of his brothers have flown forever... :-)

I had always contemplated flight options as a career path, but I don't think that I really realized that it was exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life until one day in the summer of 2001 I heard an airplane coming, looked up and it was  the B-17 that was in town giving rides to people... Ever since then I knew that I had to go into some aviation related degree in college...

:_)

The family has always said I was never the quickest bunny in the woods....

I was about 5 years old and everyone from mom, dad, uncles, grandfathers and older brother had been or were acting service pilots.  There is quite a tradition in our family for being flyers.

Well we had a farm and milked about 20 head their abouts, dad was stationed at RCAF Station Trenton.

Each farm had a manure pile and this was distributed on the fields usually prior to ploughing, the one we had was just out and in line with the top mow loading door which was about 40ft above the ground and on the end of the barn.

Two of my older brothers decided they could build a flying machine, moms good galvanized wash tub was nailed to several good pieces of 2X4 and a horse blanket tied over the 2X4s to make a wing.  This was hoisted 40ft up to the mow door and all that was left was the choosing of the pilot.

Now me being the runt of the litter at that time I was volunteered.

It flew alright, it slid along the steel I beam 10ft and instead of sliding down the rope attached to the hay wagon, the twine that was holding it to the I beam broke and me and the great flying machine ended up in 15ft high manure pile.

I never came out of that one smelling like a Rose I'll tell you and either did the other two.  A new galvanized wash tub was full of holes and bent out of shape and a horse blanket was ruined.  

I walked away from my first prang and learned a lot, never nail holes in a new wash tub as it will leak and only use a horse blanket for what it is made for.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
P.S. and now you know why the old girl sends me down to stand in the corner of the barn so often

Neat stories all.

Interesting story Flying Trucker, it also sounds very small town.

Hi Loafing Smurf

We are only a hamlet and that is within the last 10 years. We are actually on the outskirts of the Hamlet so really not in the Hamlet and we still have Rural Route Numbers and Rural Route Mail Delivery.  Our taxes however are paid not to the Hamlet but to the Township we are in.

In population it goes:
Hamlet...Village...Town...City
Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

lol Doug, that sounds like a horrible beginning to an aeronautical lifestyle... :-)

Probably attending several airshows before birth, going to playschool next to an Air Cadet unit with a vampire and being dragged to Old Warden several times a year. And flying in a DH Dragon Rapide when I was three.

Charlie

When I was small I loved Airplanes and collected lots of models and wanted to become a pilot. I eventually lost interest but about 3-4 years ago, I picked up an RC Model aircraft Magazine at an airport. It got me back into flying and I now do simulation, RC aircraft and collect models. In the future I hope to become a pilot, if not commercial, private.

No aviation history in my family.  My dad had an interest in WW2 and from that I think I grew to like the aircraft of that time.  From there it grew to include commercial aircraft and model airplanes (I would always smash them after completion; I only have one left) sealed the deal.  I got into Fsim in 5th grade where the school offered a tech class in which we got the chance to use fs5 outfitted with a yoke and rudder peddles (I think I only landed safely once).  And that is pretty much how I got here.