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How old were you when you started skydiving?

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I wonder if I am eligible for the Dinosaur Award? Is there anyone else who was older than 52 when they started and went on to get their 'D' license? I'm just four jumps away from that milestone. I hope to have it by next Saturday.

Most women start much younger and stop skydiving by the time they are my age.
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I wonder if I am eligible for the Dinosaur Award? Is there anyone else who was older than 52 when they started and went on to get their 'D' license? I'm just four jumps away from that milestone. I hope to have it by next Saturday.

Most women start much younger and stop skydiving by the time they are my age.



One of my closet friends started just before her 50th birthday
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I was 18 but really immature. With a bit of an alcohol dependency, and god knows what else (it was the 70's!)

It took a long time, but I think I've matured since then.

Realistically I couldn't have started any earlier, but I could have done more jumps. I slowed down a bit in the mid-late 90's until 2003 or so.
If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

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I wonder if I am eligible for the Dinosaur Award? Is there anyone else who was older than 52 when they started and went on to get their 'D' license? I'm just four jumps away from that milestone. I hope to have it by next Saturday.

Most women start much younger and stop skydiving by the time they are my age.



One of our guys here did his AFF at 78, he is 90 now and has 900+jumps
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One of our guys here did his AFF at 78, he is 90 now and has 900+jumps



Well, he has to be the King Dinosaur. Maybe I can be the Queen. :D

:DMay be there is an Emperor Dinosaur (started at 79 or older)???? Two people marked 80 or more in the poll. I would love to know!!!!



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I wonder if I am eligible for the Dinosaur Award? Is there anyone else who was older than 52 when they started and went on to get their 'D' license? I'm just four jumps away from that milestone. I hope to have it by next Saturday.

Most women start much younger and stop skydiving by the time they are my age.


Not a woman or have my D yet, but I was 52...
"I'm not lost. I don't know where I'm going, but there's no sense in being late."
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One of my closet friends started just before her 50th birthday



Does that mean that you aren't willing to call this person a friend in public or is this friend in the closet?:P


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