On Oct 15, 5:03 pm, Emily wrote:
Strange question. I don't really care who sits in the right seat,
although I've never flown children. I don't think I'd like a child in
the front, they mess with stuff. I even let pretty much anyone fly...my
brother once made a 90 degree turn in IMC and it was the highlight of
his month (and a near heart attack for me).

I was taking a cousin, his wife, and one of his kids for a flight
once... I put the lighter people in the back (i.e. the wife and kid)...
I told my cousin that under no circumstances was he to touch the
controls... I even asked them if any of them had a tendency for motion
sickness and if so, there were some plastic bags in the pouches behind
the front seats... Of course, they wanted to go see their place from
the air and during one of the turns while orbiting the place, my cousin
panics and grabs the yoke in a death grip... I proceeded to put my
right elbow into his ribs / chest with a force sufficient to break his
grip, if not also break his ribs... The teenage kid also got sick and
puked in the plane, not managing to get it into the plastic bag...
That's been quite a few years ago and come to think of it, I don't
think that I've seen or talked to any of them since then... Moral of
the story -- don't fly with anyone in the front seat that you're not
willing or able to knock unconscious if it comes to that... Secondary
moral of the story, use large barf bags and tie them over the kid's
head before the flight -- it's not like they have any brain cells that
could be killed from the lack of oxygen anyway...

My daughter sometimes flies up front in the right seat, sometimes in
the rear... When she was younger, she was all that keen about staying
in one place, so she would climb forward to look over the seats one
minute and climb back to look into the baggage area the next minute...
Let's just say that trying to keep an aircraft trimmed for a constant
altitude in this sort of situation ends up being a constant battle...