A Scary Prospect -- What to do?

Gosh Margie, that sounds almost like what happened to my father 60 some
years ago. He and a buddy cut class and buzzed the high school one fine
Spring day (yes, it was during WWII).

I didn't think the Feds allowed casual GA during World War II?

Good thing they didn't have Stingers back then...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Let's see, you have the basics of a flight data recorder already...
GPS will log the flight track and total time, allowing you to calculate
average speed.
EDM-700 graphic engine monitor allows you to download the previous
flight(s) engine operation data allowing you to determine exceedences
and engine start/stops.
What are you missing"
A remotely mounted digital video recorder with audio input from the
intercom, that begins recording when the master is switched on.
What are you worried about?

There are worse problems in life than that!

denny

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you'll need another plane?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:BSuUd.70922$tl3.52178@attbi_s02...
Mary and I have tried very hard to treat flying as an uncommon -- but
perfectly normal -- family activity, and that's all my kids have ever
known.

Hey, here's another idea- find an aerobatic instructor who'll give him a
good workout in a Champ. You're never going to shut off the thrill-seeking
portion of his brain completely but you can try to provide a structured
outlet for it. It'll make a better airman of him and teach him what the
edges of the envelope really look like.

-cwk.

Actually, that's what I did with my kids when it came to driving. Our
daughter, who was the wild one in the family, was driving like a maniac and
wouldn't listen to anyone, including her brothers, about slowing down. I
eventually decided that if she wouldn't drive responsibly, at least I should
get her some real skills so that she was less likely to kill herself or
someone else. I took her up to Lime Rock Raceway and she took the Skip
Barber advanced driving course. All day learning how to spin out a car, get
maximum braking without ABS ("threshold braking"), getting absolutely
everything out of a car when you need it to get out of trouble, and how to
recover from unusual attitudes (like sideways on dry pavement). She had a
great time, and actually began to drive much more responsibly after that.
The best $500 I ever spent. I was so impressed I took both her brothers to
the same course. They have each said that the skills they learned have
enabled them to get out of really bad situations on several occasions.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote in message
k.net...

Hey, here's another idea- find an aerobatic instructor who'll give him a
good workout in a Champ. You're never going to shut off the thrill-seeking
portion of his brain completely but you can try to provide a structured
outlet for it. It'll make a better airman of him and teach him what the
edges of the envelope really look like.

-cwk.

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:55:45 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Hmmm... Contributing to the delinquency of a minor, named in a
paternity case... Any port in a storm...

Man, what a machine for going on a date! Far more impressive than a
convertible and above the sports car on the testosterone meter.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Do you guys let your kids fly your plane?

("Roger" wrote)
Do you guys let your kids fly your plane?

Man, what a machine for going on a date! Far more impressive than a
convertible and above the sports car on the testosterone meter.


Oddly enough, even without a plane in high school, I was able to make my
dates throw up :-)

Be very afraid of the ones throwing up 3 months "after" the date.


Montblack

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:31:45 -0500, "Bob Chilcoat"
wrote:

I took her up to Lime Rock Raceway and she took the Skip
Barber advanced driving course.

I never had the money for such a course, but when I was a fresh faced
driver, I took the family wagon out one night during a slippery
snowstorm and practiced skids and skid recovery. It was instructive
to learn that when you stomp on the brakes and lock up the wheels,
steering input quits working. I would center myself on the road and
stomp on the brakes, then I discovered that I could (and did) spin the
steering wheel from lock to opposite lock with no change in direction
of the car. But if I lifted off the brakes while the wheel was locked
to one side, the car would instantly regain steering and lurch towards
the curb. Very instructive.

I was in no danger of hitting anything because I did not do this with
cars around and the streets were pretty wide and I did not need to go
very fast to skid. The lessons I learned that night have stayed with
me for 43 years. A locked up tire has no traction, nor can it be
steered. That's why ABS works, it prevents total lockup.

It was very smart of you to treat them to the Skip Barber course.

Corky Scott

Static friction vice dynamic friction

Corky Scott wrote:
I never had the money for such a course, but when I was a fresh faced
driver, I took the family wagon out one night during a slippery
snowstorm and practiced skids and skid recovery. It was instructive
to learn that when you stomp on the brakes and lock up the wheels,
steering input quits working. I would center myself on the road and
stomp on the brakes, then I discovered that I could (and did) spin the
steering wheel from lock to opposite lock with no change in direction
of the car. But if I lifted off the brakes while the wheel was locked
to one side, the car would instantly regain steering and lurch towards
the curb. Very instructive.
I was in no danger of hitting anything because I did not do this with
cars around and the streets were pretty wide and I did not need to go
very fast to skid. The lessons I learned that night have stayed with
me for 43 years. A locked up tire has no traction, nor can it be
steered. That's why ABS works, it prevents total lockup.
It was very smart of you to treat them to the Skip Barber course.

"Corky Scott" wrote

I never had the money for such a course, but when I was a fresh faced
driver, I took the family wagon out one night during a slippery
snowstorm and practiced skids and skid recovery.

My father did the same with me, and I did the same with my two children.
Some thing are difficult to learn, without those slippery parking lots.
--
Jim in NC