A reluctance to take the controls

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

Steve Schneider writes:

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.

Some people enjoy being in the air but have no desire to actually
pilot the plane themselves.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Some people enjoy being in the air but have no desire to actually
pilot the plane themselves.

WOW! That is such a really brilliant statement!
Did you figure it all by yourself?
It adds SO MUCH to the discussion.
And I'll bet you can prove it is a true statement.
How did we ever get along without your profundity for all these years?

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Oh, by the way, transposing the above yields gmail@mxsmanic -- just
thought you'd like to know.

Actually, our own Jay Honeck still hasn't figured it out.

Thanks, BTW, for your contribution.

mike

"N2310D" wrote in message
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WOW! That is such a really brilliant statement!
Did you figure it all by yourself?
It adds SO MUCH to the discussion.
And I'll bet you can prove it is a true statement.
How did we ever get along without your profundity for all these years?

Actually, our own Jay Honeck still hasn't figured it out.

Perhaps a better example for Jay - you're at a party, and a friend
offers you the chance to try a line of some prime Coke. Most people
don't get a chance to do this. A lot of people think it's terrific. I
don't know the actual numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number
of pilots is less than the number of drug users.

Do you decline?

Jose
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Jose wrote:

Actually, our own Jay Honeck still hasn't figured it out.

Perhaps a better example for Jay - you're at a party, and a friend
offers you the chance to try a line of some prime Coke. Most people
don't get a chance to do this. A lot of people think it's terrific. I
don't know the actual numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number
of pilots is less than the number of drug users.

"better example"? Not!

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Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

"better example"? Not!

Why not?

Jose
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N2310D writes:

WOW! That is such a really brilliant statement!

Thank you.

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