I am now retired.

I have a SEL/Commercial/Instrument rating.

I am 72. I now have lots of free time.

I have not really flown in a decade.

Is there anyone here flying into their 70s or later?

Just wondering: today was CAVU, and I got itchy.

I haven't but would love to.
I did look into getting my license about 10 years ago at 56. For a lot of reasons it just didn't work out for me at the time.
Now, I feel it's too late for it to be practical.

I know several guys in their mid to late seventies that fly GA stuff. Typically they fly day VFR. A few of them fly more hard core in the XC IFR environment.
Excluding health issues the thing that frequently grounds them is aircraft insurance. It varies from one company to another but somewhere between 73-76 you can expect a large increase in your insurance premiums. One gentleman I know was a former Air Force fighter pilot who then retired from the airlines after 20 plus years. He had thousands of hours of experience with no violations or insurance claims. In spite of being in amazing good health, physically and mentally, the aviation insurance company he had been with for 10 years raised his rates 30% the year he turned 75. He called them to see what the reason was and they said it was due to his age. They also told him it would keep going up as he aged.
I wish you luck and hope you are able to start flying again. Enjoy it while you can.

My CFI when I was a student was in his 70s
Best instructor I had. Did it because he enjoyed it, lessons were $50 regardless of time. Half hour ground school or 2 hour cross country.
I also had a free plane to use at the time, with 2 conditions: Fill it up when you're done & don't crash it

75 with private SEL and still flying a club-owned 152 and 172, day VFR only. My home field (DVN) is on the edge of MLI class C airspace, but most of my flying is in class E with flight following to uncontrolled fields (with nearby restaurants).

I say do it! I was out of the cockpit for 34 years; ten years ago the Rusty Pilot program was a big help getting me back in the air.

https://www.aopa.org/training-...-pilots/rusty-pilots

Instead of a class III medical, I'm now flying under Basic Med.

https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/...ity-and-renewal-tool

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My father flew well into his 70's. He started flying with an instructor when the complexity started to be too much to safely multi-task.

For me, I did notice a decline in my ability to multi-task in busy airspace by age 60.

For both of us, I believe it was due both to age and to how much busier and complicated the airspace is. It is nothing like the old days when we'd depart LDJ and fly vfr up the Hudson, circle the Statue of Liberty, and buzz all around Long Island and NJ.

So be sure to get a good refresher on airspace and all the requirements for transponders, flight plans, etc. Also, our sense of balance tends to dull with age. I would suggest getting some instrument training to get proficient trusting the instruments.