Danny Dot wrote:

I have found that children ALWAYS take the controls and attempt to fly. It
is only adults that make no attempt to attempt to fly.

Danny Dot
www.mobbinggonemad.org


I've had a couple of Young Eagle flights where the kids did not want to
handle the controls. I was quite suprised since they had an obvious
interest in flying given that they signed up for the event -- and in
each case they enjoyed their flight. But a couple of them just wanted to
observe rather than pilot the aircraft. I continue to hope that the
next time these kids had the opportunity to fly that they would feel
less inhibited and take the controls.

I've never had a child who knew me (my kid's friends, family members,
etc) refuse the chance to fly the plane. So perhaps for the reluctant
ones it is a matter of being too polite or a misguided sense of not
wanting to impose on the adult flying the plane.

Steve