"Fred Choate" wrote in message
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Hello All....

This may sound silly, but I would like to hear some opinions on a matter
presented to me this evening.

I recently got my ticket. I started 5 years ago, and due to certain
circumstances, I had to take 4 1/2 years off, then I picked up and did 10
more hours of training to prep for the checkride. My total hours to date
are 63.8 with 26.7 of those being solo time.

Okay, that being said, my In-Laws made a comment to me tonight about
flying with my children. Actually, they put it in the context of "do you
really think it is a good idea to fly with your children until you get
more hours....." followed by "....Larry (one of the In-Laws) didn't fly
with family members until he had 300 hours....".

I didn't even respond. My question to you folks is simply, how long did
you all wait before you decided it was safe to fly with your family?
Myself.....my kids were the first passengers I took up, and I felt
completely safe, prepared, and at ease with them in the aircraft with me.

Comments?

Fred



I would just tell them that you think it is safe or that you think that the
risk is reasonable.. There is little point in trying to back up your
position with facts, which really aren't on your side anyway. Reality is
that you are fairly inexperienced and you won't be able to overcome that
objection. However, inexperience doesn't mean high risk of a fatal
accident. If the flight is from one paved airport to another in VFR
weather, I doubt that there is much difference in risk between 63hrs and
1000hrs, you can either make the flight safely or you can't. You just
demonstrated on the checkride that you can make such flights in reasonable
safety.

When asked if flying with me is safe, I just answer "No, its not safe".

Mike
MU-2