Young enough?

Age and becoming a (commercial) pilot

Recently, a budding pilot asked me if 50 was too old to start a flying career. Sounds like a simple question, I mulled it over for a while and soon came to the realisation that it was in fact, not simple at all.

I am a fully-blown card-carrying member of that “don’t tell me I can’t” club. If you want to do something, age is irrelevant; it is only a number as they say, go for it. And there are loads of people out there in the business world who prove it: