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View Poll Results: How old were you when you acquired your first RV12 kit or plane
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under 30
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5 |
3.14% |
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30-39
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7 |
4.40% |
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40-49
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26 |
16.35% |
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50-59
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45 |
28.30% |
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60-69
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50 |
31.45% |
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70-79
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22 |
13.84% |
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80 and older
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4 |
2.52% |
12-20-2011, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Rochester, MN
Posts: 710
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Popularity obviously dominated by the 50-70 group. It would be interesting to run this poll again in a year or two. I wonder if the upgraded avionics kit will make this plane more appealing to the 50 and under group?
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12-20-2011, 10:59 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: La Feria Texas
Posts: 3,822
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What is wrong with this poll is that in reality most are in the 70 and 80 bracket, but the old timers never learned to use computers yet!
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12-20-2011, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 905
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Don, do you have facts to support that claim? I suspect not, and I know a lot of "old timers" who are very savvy in computers of all kinds. Man, we even use Iphones, drive cars, fly airplanes, do math problems in our heads for amusement, and occasionally run the vacuum at home for the wife.
Dick Seiders
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12-20-2011, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Independence, OR
Posts: 317
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Some of us are even housebroken!! 
But, I know what you mean. Usually a kid, and that can mean anyone less than 30, can solve my computer issues.
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12-20-2011, 05:26 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: La Feria Texas
Posts: 3,822
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Nah, it was just a fleeing thought, stated to make the young ones think we were of greater numbers than we really are. (and you forgot the IPADS)
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Originally Posted by dick seiders
Don, do you have facts to support that claim? I suspect not, and I know a lot of "old timers" who are very savvy in computers of all kinds. Man, we even use Iphones, drive cars, fly airplanes, do math problems in our heads for amusement, and occasionally run the vacuum at home for the wife.
Dick Seiders
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12-21-2011, 10:52 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Petaluma, CA
Posts: 261
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Poll comparison
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Petaluma, CA
RV-8 N828RV
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12-21-2011, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 430
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IPADS???
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Originally Posted by DonFromTX
Nah, it was just a fleeing thought, stated to make the young ones think we were of greater numbers than we really are. (and you forgot the IPADS)
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Us older guys won't even need those until we umm...lose control right? |
12-22-2011, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: La Feria Texas
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Good one! Took me a minute there to get it.
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Originally Posted by DaveWelch
Us older guys won't even need those until we umm...lose control right?
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12-22-2011, 02:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ashland, OR
Posts: 2,587
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Comparisons
the comparison with the RV-builders in general is interesting -- that one seems to show a broader age distribution than the RV-12 builders.
I wonder about the age distribution of all recreational general-aviation pilots.
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02-27-2013, 07:52 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Hackettstown, NJ
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LSA Pilot Age
Last month I attended a two day E-LSA Repairman Inspection Course that Rainbow Aviation held in Lakeland. Its really exciting to read about the high school students building RV-12s, but based on this poll and the profile of this useful class, we've really got to keep working on getting some younger folk into these LSAs. In the class of less than thirty, one student was recovering from dual hip surgery, another struggled at times to follow the lectures (dual hearing aids) and what was really disturbing, we had one heart attack on morning of day two. (Fortunately, we learned that he had a couple of stents put in by the time the day was over and he was expected to fully recover.) Maybe the Florida location skewed the attendance - I'm not yet 50 but I almost felt like a teenager.
Even my wife is now skeptical when I try and convince her that this LSA thing is not necessarily for old, retired pilots unable to handle regular airplanes!
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