Average age Poll

[Guest]

Please select your age.

SW

[poz]

Great idea

Thanks Simon

[outkast]

thats a very young and youthfull 43 mind!

Dave

[Guest]

Well so far, 36 and 56 are the most popular age!

SW

[edwardc]

I think the over 50's should get a 'Saga' discount on their membership

[asquaddie]

'I think the over 50's should get a 'Saga' discount on their membership'

I second that.

Tony

[alan_k]

Well so far, 36 and 56 are the most popular age!

SW

As if you have a choice

Still I don't feel 56 I want to enjoy this sport for another 20 years yet

Outcast, you don't look a day over 34 ; oops is that the dislexia kicking in or is it old age

Alan

[pete_b]

'I think the over 50's should get a 'Saga' discount on their membership'

I second that.

Tony

I third it

[Guest]

73!

thats got to be the brig?

SW

[Guest]

hummm,

how do I work out the averge from the above?

SW

[asquaddie]

42.11320755

but I guess we can call it 42 years and 31 days

Edited October 6, 2009 by Guest

[Guest]

Nice one!

The more input we have the more accurate the age will be so please do click on your age if you have not already done so.

SW

[alan_k]

It's got to be 42, that's the answer to everything isn't it

Cheers,

Alan

[Phil_P]

It's got to be 42, that's the answer to everything isn't it

Cheers,

Alan

Ah, another HHGTTG aficionado.

Make mine a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

Phil

[cageuk]

I would think that because the remarkable 73 will skew the results it would be more accurate to remove that and the youngest age and then calculate the average from there!

The most common age is quite obvious though!

So long...and thanks for all the fish!

[cambodia]

I wonder what the average age of Paraglider pilots is?

Bet its younger than you old buggers

It would be interesting to know everybodys reasons for the change from Paragliding to Paramotoring.

I got fed up with using my day off to drive 50 mile round trip then 9 times out of 10 just sit on the hill all day waiting.

When I did fly the sky was so crowded it just was not fun anymore.

Now I finish work at 5pm,can be in the air for 5:30 and back home for dinner at 7:00 and not just floating along the same old ridge back and forward over and over again.

[alan_k]

I wonder what the average age of Paraglider pilots is?

Bet its younger than you old buggers

Charming, we love you too.

I went straight into PPG with no previous PG experience, the major reason being the nearest instructor taught PPG to the BMAA sylabus.

Cheers,

Alan

[Mike]

I still practice both PG and PPG depending on what the weather is doing. occaso0nally l do both on the same day.

The one l am rusty on is TOW. Havn't done a TOW launch since year before last.

1953. so getting an old bar steward now lol.

Mike

[cambodia]

I wonder why Paramotoring is such a minority sport.

It costs about the same as Motorcycling and is loads more fun (I was a biker for over 30 years)

People are amazed when they see you,comment on how fantastic it must be but hardly ever consider doing it themselves.

Also why do so few paragliders paramotor.

Would not want it any different though.

[surrey-dad]

I wonder why Paramotoring is such a minority sport...

IMHO it is probably because many people are not even aware that it exists as a sport !

In my case, although I knew about paragliding, it wasn't until somebody suddenly appeared over a french sand dune with a motor strapped to their back and proceeded to fly off along a long beach into a lovely sunset that I realised that this was something I wanted to try out.

But next challenge when I got back to the UK was to find a suitable trainer.

Fortunately after trawling the web I found this website and then Simon...

Andy

[edwardc]

Andy

Sounds like the start of 'love story'

[surrey-dad]

Andy

Sounds like the start of 'love story'

Eddie - I am hoping it is.

PPG that is - NOT Simon

Andy