Definitely another example of the extreme wussification of this country. "We should sequester all the children at home, all the time, in front of the TV, don't ever expose them to anything!"



Heck, I remember getting into ATC towers and trans-Atlantic airliner cockpits when I was a kid, in the 80's and 90's! En-route!

So Dad shows Son that he too, if he studies hard at school, can do cool things too, that a controller, a pilot, etc etc isn't some superhuman with extraterrestrial abilities.

This reaction is like closing the beaches in the summer because ONE shark sometimes takes ONE person swimming in the sharks' house. Meanwhile, almost 40,000 people a year die in automobile accidents, in the US!