Is it hard to get your family or firiends to fly with you in a general aviation plane
01-30-2009, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by SkyHigh
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
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Originally Posted by SkyHigh
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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02-01-2009, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by HIFLYR
Sky, you never know how far some kid might go if you took the time to share aviation with them.
02-01-2009, 11:14 AM
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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.
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02-01-2009, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by ufgatorpilot
I think that people just don't like feeling like they have no control. Don't take it personally that your family/friends don't want to go flying with you. I am sure they have no doubt that you are a wonderful pilot.
02-01-2009, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by atpwannabe
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.
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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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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
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Originally Posted by agrinaut
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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