Nobody was ever going to be in danger, I'm sure the kid had a great time, but.... it does show bad judgement just because of how sensitive the public is about aviation. You could probably talk to 10,000 pilots and only a couple blow hards are really gonna think the guy should get fired, most of us are going to think he should get a slap on the wrist. Alternatively, if you talked to 10,000 average people I'd bet you get something like 7,000 of them that say fire the guy. It's just a case of the "don't get caught" if it had stopped with those pilots and a couple chuckles, hey the kid had a good time, he understands what dad does, everybody wins. Unfortunately once anybody takes interest in that, there's LOTS of incriminating evidence of something that just doesn't LOOK good to the general public.

I'm in the let him off with a slap on the wrist crowd and would be happy to write my congressman or whoever telling them.