I recently (3 years now) acquired a 5yr old son (from my fiances previous marriage) and he loves anything that has to do with cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, helicopters and video games. I call him my son, since I am pretty much the only father figure he has ever known. We have over 250,000 video games in our house, so his hand/eye coordination is very advanced compared to other kids his age.

I took him to a local flying on our way back from 6 Flags and he fell in love with it. Since then I have purchased Realflight G3, and started building a new aircraft. He has watched intently every step of our new aircraft go from a bunch of wood to a newly covered machine. He is always flying the sim on the computer and he knows how to put in my passcode to unlock my computer, launch the G3 application (I don't use desktop icons), pick his favorite airport, change aircraft and actually fly. He seems to have more of a fascination with Helicopters then he does airplanes, but he enjoys airplanes as well. On the sim He can take off and fly airplanes, but I have never seen him actually land on the runway. With helicopters he can idle, take off, hover, fly and land. So, naturally... I too was wondering at what age people suggest getting kids into the hobby... He's got the hand/eye coordination for it, but I would imagine there might be legal (AMA) implications about it...