On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:48:50 GMT, "Geoffrey Barnes"
wrote:

By the way, I do recall reading an ASRS report written by a guy who put his
2-year-old in the right seat, and ended up having to fight him for control
of the yoke.

A similar thing happened to *me*, when I looked down on my
base-to-final turn to find my daughter, 8 years old, grinning ear to
ear, with both hands on the right-seat-yoke.

She understood later that the ensuing shouting had more to do with
safety than anything else.

You can give 'em a briefing, and even repeat the landing stuff right
before the downwind entry, but doggonit sometimes kids just *don't*
listen.

Rob, noting the event hasn't at all diminished her desire to learn
flying