AndyJ
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AndyJ
Hi everybody! I've been lurking on here for awhile, and figured to break in, I'd share my story of my daughter's first flight yesterday (cross-posted from AOPA forums so I don't need to re-type it all):
Well it was a beautiful day in NeOhio today, and I had no childcare for my daugther who turns 3 on Friday, so I figured "what a great day to take her flying". Actually she brought it up on the way to school when she saw a 172 flying overhead from the back of the car (!) and said "I want to go up there".
No problem. After preschool, I plopped her in the left seat of a 152 with a bunch of cushions and off we went. We did the standard flight over the house, school, etc, then ended up south over farm country because she didn't want to land yet. I let her 'fly' for maybe 10-15 minutes avoiding any unusual attitudes, then we had a bit of a scuffle when I tried to get the controls back. I pushed her seat back all the way and tried to crank down the shoulder harness, but on short final when she saw the ground so close she gave the yoke a little kick for good measure, as if I couldn't hear her crabbing "I don't want to land!!" over the intercom...It really didn't concern me a whole lot, since one of my students is 6'4" 225lb, so I figure I can overpower her more quickly than him. Best part was when I shut the engine down she had a total meltdown, to the point where someone else wandered over to see if she was OK while I was getting the plane tied down again.
"No she's just mad that we landed."
Well it was a beautiful day in NeOhio today, and I had no childcare for my daugther who turns 3 on Friday, so I figured "what a great day to take her flying". Actually she brought it up on the way to school when she saw a 172 flying overhead from the back of the car (!) and said "I want to go up there".
No problem. After preschool, I plopped her in the left seat of a 152 with a bunch of cushions and off we went. We did the standard flight over the house, school, etc, then ended up south over farm country because she didn't want to land yet. I let her 'fly' for maybe 10-15 minutes avoiding any unusual attitudes, then we had a bit of a scuffle when I tried to get the controls back. I pushed her seat back all the way and tried to crank down the shoulder harness, but on short final when she saw the ground so close she gave the yoke a little kick for good measure, as if I couldn't hear her crabbing "I don't want to land!!" over the intercom...It really didn't concern me a whole lot, since one of my students is 6'4" 225lb, so I figure I can overpower her more quickly than him. Best part was when I shut the engine down she had a total meltdown, to the point where someone else wandered over to see if she was OK while I was getting the plane tied down again.
"No she's just mad that we landed."