Originally Posted by
baronbvp
^This^
Same thing happened to me when I was 6, only in an F-4 Phantom. That was the day I decided I wanted to be a fighter pilot.
You can literally spark a kid’s dream. So worth it.
I flew the Phantom, and always let people sit in the jet at airshows....Airplane geeks, kids, and hot moms.
Why? Because that would have been the best thing EVER when I was a kid.
I would have loved the same thing in an airliner when travelling...didn’t get to, until a stopover when I was in college...just chatting with the FO. He made the whole pilot dream seem achievable.
Thanks baron, for validating what I was trying to do!
Badflaps: fantastic story. It doesn’t take much to make a difference in a day, or a life.