Comments on: Start finding passengers… now! http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322 Wed, 15 May 2013 22:33:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jim http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322&cpage=1#comment-396 Jim Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:55:33 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322#comment-396 Yes, this s a great way to get the family involved early on. I take my son (age 8) with me on lessons periodically. He loves it, especially steep turns and stalls, it’s like a carnival ride for him. Now my youngest son (age 5) wants to go too.

]]> By: Paul http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322&cpage=1#comment-388 Paul Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:09:44 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322#comment-388 My mom was reluctant to agree to go flying with me. When practicing emergency maneuvers with my CFI, I sent youtube links to give her an idea what I was learning, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fmp0vUfUsY

so that she’d realize that the airplane wouldn’t just fall out of the sky if the engine quit and that I had been trained to deal with such a situation. To my surprise, she watched all of the videos and says she will give it a try–hopefully I’ll be able to take my parents up soon. If she had been around during my training, I agree that it would have been a great idea to take her along on one of the dual XC flights.

Paul

]]> By: Brian McDaniel http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322&cpage=1#comment-387 Brian McDaniel Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:34:26 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=322#comment-387 Good Idea. My wife is a bit nervous since her sister and nephew were killed in a C172 crash at Crest Airpark in 95. Having an instructor with us would be reassuring to her I think.

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