Is it hard to get your family or firiends to fly with you in a general aviation plane
01-30-2009, 07:03 PM
#11
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I don't really like to have passengers. My kids did not even know that I had a plane until a year and a half ago. Since then I have rarely taken them up. Airport bums occasionally try to hitch a ride when I go up but I have to turn them away. I enjoy the peace of flying by myself and for some reason since I am a flight instructor everyone expects me to relinquish the controls to them. I also don't like dealing with airsickness, explanations or passenger demands. I don't like to feel obligated to offer the left seat either. No pax, no way.
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01-31-2009, 04:02 PM
#13
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Joined APC: Sep 2007
Position: 777 Captain in Training
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I don't really like to have passengers. My kids did not even know that I had a plane until a year and a half ago. Since then I have rarely taken them up. Airport bums occasionally try to hitch a ride when I go up but I have to turn them away. I enjoy the peace of flying by myself and for some reason since I am a flight instructor everyone expects me to relinquish the controls to them. I also don't like dealing with airsickness, explanations or passenger demands. I don't like to feel obligated to offer the left seat either. No pax, no way.
Skyhigh
Skyhigh
02-01-2009, 09:45 AM
#14
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Joined APC: Apr 2006
Position: BE-20, RA390
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02-01-2009, 11:14 AM
#15
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Position: Student Pilot
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My ex wife just agreed yesterday, (1/31/09), that she and our son, whose 4 yrs old, to go up with me in May as a birthday gift to him. I anticpate on having at least my INSTR rating by then. Hearing that gives my just that much more confidence in my ablility to accomplish my goals.
atp
atp
02-01-2009, 11:44 AM
#16
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Desk
Posts: 114
My experience has been the opposite. My family is willing to fly in commercial jets because they can't see anything. They would rather sit blissfully unaware in the back and think that the airplane is powered by magic. When sitting in the right seat of a small trainer, they are forced to acknowledge the existence of flight controls, aircraft systems, etc. and this makes them nervous. Everyone has their reasons though...
02-01-2009, 12:36 PM
#17
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: on the back of the donkey
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My ex wife just agreed yesterday, (1/31/09), that she and our son, whose 4 yrs old, to go up with me in May as a birthday gift to him. I anticpate on having at least my INSTR rating by then. Hearing that gives my just that much more confidence in my ablility to accomplish my goals.
atp
atp
What a great b-day gift for you son and an ex-wife that will actually agree on something other then more money
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02-01-2009, 07:05 PM
#18
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Posts: 27
The first time my wife rode with me was in a dual cockpit Turbo Thrush. I told her before she got in that I was going to spray a rice field and she hopped in anyway. Every turn I would look back at her and she just smiled. She did great and has ridden with me a bunch of times since. I have had some riders that didn't fare as well.
02-02-2009, 05:21 AM
#19
Flying Farmer
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: Turbo-props' and John Deere's
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The first time my wife rode with me was in a dual cockpit Turbo Thrush. I told her before she got in that I was going to spray a rice field and she hopped in anyway. Every turn I would look back at her and she just smiled. She did great and has ridden with me a bunch of times since. I have had some riders that didn't fare as well.
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