Thread: Is it hard to get your family or firiends to fly with you in a general aviation plane
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Old 01-31-2009, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by SkyHigh View Post
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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I really enjoy flying and sharing it with others. I fly a lot of kids through the EAA's Young Eagles program. My 9 year old daughter can fly my 46 Cessna 140 taildragger pretty well and she is my favorite passenger. Sky, you never know how far some kid might go if you took the time to share aviation with them.
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