A little positive GA news coverage

Jay Honeck wrote in news:fa94a10b-30d2-4603-ac44-
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Maybe if you had we would have a few more people that became pilots.

Precisely.

Every day we read about kids hitting baseballs, or sinking baskets, or
running really fast -- but we never, EVER read about kids learning to
fly. Ever.

It's no wonder that kids don't get into aviation anymore -- not only
are few kids doing it, no one is even talking about the kids doing
it. If 200 kids see one of their peers in the paper doing something
they had never dreamt of doing, perhaps that will open their eyes to
what is truly possible.

I know I wish someone had told *me* that I could learn to fly, when I
was 17...
--

Didn' take me that long. I went and found out for myself.

When I was 13.

And i didn't live anywhere near an airport and I wasn't independently
wealthy ,. whiney boi.


Bertie

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:28:37 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote:

Every day we read about kids hitting baseballs, or sinking baskets, or
running really fast -- but we never, EVER read about kids learning to
fly.
Ever.

The only place I ever see articles such as what you're describing is in
the town paper (a weekly).

But this is a good idea that I'll mention to a local flight school where
I've still some contacts. They've a bulletin board on which students'
accomplishments are posted. Why not write some sort of "press release"
for each to the local paper and the paper local to where the student
lives?

- Andrew

Jay Honeck wrote:
Maybe if you had we would have a few more people that became pilots.

Precisely.

Every day we read about kids hitting baseballs, or sinking baskets, or
running really fast -- but we never, EVER read about kids learning to
fly. Ever.

It's no wonder that kids don't get into aviation anymore -- not only
are few kids doing it, no one is even talking about the kids doing
it. If 200 kids see one of their peers in the paper doing something
they had never dreamt of doing, perhaps that will open their eyes to
what is truly possible.

I know I wish someone had told *me* that I could learn to fly, when I
was 17...

I'm really surprised you didn't know. I don't know where I caught the
flying bug, but I was hooked by age 7 or so. I read books about flying
in the library and watched flying movies on TV. I knew I wanted to be a
fighter pilot by age 12 or so and wanted to attend the AFA. I made
finalist at the academy, but got cut in the last round when they went
from 1500 applications to the 750 or so (if memory serves) cadets to be
accepted that year (1977). The consolation prize was a full ROTC
scholarship, but my eyes failed me a few months later and I could not
longer pass the pilots physical. I starting my private training shortly
after that and had my Private at age 18.

How could you not know about flying while growing up?

Matt

How could you not know about flying while growing up?

It's not that I didn't know about flying -- I think many kids are
enamored with the notion of being in the sky. I was, too, from the
very first time I flew on a Boing 707, in 1962.

But that's a whole different thing than knowing how to get from "Boy,
is that cool" to "Boy, I could *do* that!" Neither of my parents
attended college, both grew up in the Depression, and flying was just
not something that anyone in my family ever considered doing. As a
result, it was never mentioned as anything within the realm of
possibility.

In my family the notion of owning your own airplane, or flying the
family from coast to coast, was so far "out there" as to be in the
realm of Buck Rogers. No one talked about it because, quite frankly,
my family was just as ignorant about general aviation as 98% of the
country is today.

What we need to do, as pilot-mentors, is let kids know that flying is
attainable. In order to do that, we must let the public know that
regular guys and gals are learning to fly right every day, right in
their hometowns. Once they know that schnooks like US can do it,
that'll be one less hurdle for them to clear between the road and the
runway.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article , Martin Hotze
wrote:

If 200 kids see one of their peers in the paper doing something
they had never dreamt of doing, perhaps that will open their eyes to
what is truly possible.

some may also think (not that I think that your son hasn't done it
because he wanted to): poor guy: daddy flies, mommy flies and now he has
to do the same.

There are worse things to be "forced" into....

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

"F. Baum" wrote in message
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On Dec 31, 12:20 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:

The reporter got almost every detail wrong -- but, hey, it's positive
news about young people flying, and it was published in a Gannett-
owned periodical... We'll take it!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Jay, This is coming from someone who was a PPL at 17, a COMM INST at
19 and a Corporate pilot at 21. I felt no need to alert the press or
have my father make ENDLESS posts to RAP every time I went to the
airfield. Its good that your boy flys, but you have to be pretty self
absorbed to think we all need to constantly be reminded .


Strangely, I thought the purpose of this group was to talk about piloting.
Why not add something constructive to the discussion instead of ****ing on
it?

"Kyle Boatright" wrote

Strangely, I thought the purpose of this group was to talk about piloting.
Why not add something constructive to the discussion instead of ****ing on
it?

Really good idea, but some people, a very few, are too immature to control
themselves.

I wish everyone would take the attitude of, "If you don't have something
nice to say, don't say anything."
--
Jim in NC

I wish everyone would take the attitude of, "If you don't have something
nice to say, don't say anything."

I think I've found a land where this attitude prevails, Jim. It's
called "The Aviation Forum", and it's a moderated group of
enthusiastic, positive, upbeat pilots. See it he http://www.aviationforum.org

I've been lurking there for a few weeks, trying to get used to the
different format -- and am so far quite impressed with the clientele.
Best of all, trolls simply can't exist there, thanks to the
moderators.

I haven't yet jumped to that forum completely, because I keep hoping
that we will get past the current spate of ill will. However, with
this group sinking ever-deeper into a morass of anonymous Troll
vs.Troll banality, it's worth checking out.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Dec 31 2007, 11:32*pm, Jay Honeck wrote:

I think I've found a land where this attitude prevails, Jim. *It's
called "The Aviation Forum", and it's a moderated group of
enthusiastic, positive, upbeat pilots. *See it hehttp://www.aviationforum.org

Jay, ask the moderators if they will put up with 50 to 60 threads on
the same subject. See if they will endure endless OT discusion. Check
on their tolerance of profanities.

Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:32:51 -0800 (PST), Jay Honeck
wrote in
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"The Aviation Forum", and it's a moderated group of
enthusiastic, positive, upbeat pilots. See it he http://www.aviationforum.org

It looks like it's run by a pilot:

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