Teeny little passengers

[DaleB]

I needed to log an hour today, and we were supposed to get together with our daughter and two grandsons. That got me thinking...

Winds were 190 @ 8 kt, runway 12. We did two flights, each with Mom and one of the munchkins in the back seat of the 172. On the first trip we made a couple of laps around my daughter's office building so she would have something unique to enter in the monthly office photo contest. Both of the boys thought it was pretty cool. The older one fell asleep on the way back to the airport and was pretty upset when we woke him up back at the ramp and he realized he'd missed the landing (a really nice one, BTW). Told him no sweat, we'll do it again some time.

All I have are a few pics taken on the ground, but I'm sure I'll be able to collect some from my daughter of the boys in the air. It was the first time the boys had flown, and the first time my daughter had been up in anything smaller than a turbine powered cattle car. Pretty cool evening for all concerned! 1.2 hours and a note in the log book that I'll never forget.

 

[No Joy]

Cool. Great idea and photos. Envious.

 

[Ted]

All of the pictures of our son are my favorite, but especially the ones of him flying with us. Somehow I think he'll like those the best when he gets older, too. Good job.

 

[N747JB]

I always like taking kids flying, mine are 18-24, so it's no big deal to them. But, I had a couple boys fly back from the beach with me, I think they are 9-11. They argued over who got to sit up front first and the one that did noticed on the revised clearance that the ETA was 6 minutes more, so he stayed longer to make sure he got his half!

 

[Archammer]

Ahh the good times!

 

[wabower]

Little Mr. Redshirt looks like he might be having about as much fun as a little kid knows how to have.

 

[DaleB]

You ought to see the pics when we had them up in the air. I'm agitating to get copies now... seems they're up on the bane of mankind and Satan's biggest playground (Facebook) but I don't have any access to them at the moment.

 

[DaleB]

Finally got some of the in-flight pics. There's a reason to keep flights with little kids short... their attention span is even worse than mine! On the bright side, they're already asking to "go flying with Opa" again.

 

[Florida Cracker]

I am envious.
We love to take the grand kids up and have them handle the yoke to a while. Their legs are too short to each the rudder pedals but I like for them work the yoke and sometimes the throttle.
The 13 year old can pretty much land the plane and the other two take off everytime.
Miss them all when they're not with me...

 

[DaleB]

I think I'll wait until they're a little older to let them take the front seat. We do have a granddaughter who's 9, though -- she's old enough to go by herself, I'll offer to take her up next time I fly. Her little sisters too, but they will need a parent along.