Flying with small kids

Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

Bill

"Bill G" wrote in message
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Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

Bill

How small?
I have 7, 4 and 2 year olds.
They all like to fly. No crying at all.
However, they have more interest when in the front seat, and tend to fall
asleep in the back.
The littlest one tends to take her headset off until she falls asleep.
When on trips they get bored easily.
When tooling around the area, the love steep turns, etc.

Adam
N7966L
Beech Super III

On Fri, 06 May 2005 00:58:58 GMT, Bill G wrote:

Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

Bill

Hi Bill,

My niece and nephew have been up with me at the young age of 1 1/2. First
trip was just around the pattern to see what their reaction would be.

Big mistake *smile* as my nephew lives and breathes airplane. My niece now
looks at it as "just another way of getting around".

Both were calm the first time, though the first time my nephew squawked
about getting in the plane. He didn't like the slope of the wing, and was
too "independent" to accept help. Once in, not a problem. We had bought a
child size headset, and he didn't mind it at all.

Both kids on their first cross country were great. It was a one hour
flight and right at 50 minutes, they did get fidgety, but once they felt
the plane start to descend, they seem to understand the trip was almost
over. Both wore headsets without any discomforts or problems.

Hope this helps.

Allen

Bill G wrote:
Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

I've done a number of "Young Eagles" flights. Kids are at least school age for
those. Reactions have varied -- a few do the screaming routine, as if it were a
carnival ride. I hit the pilot isolate button at that point. I've never had any
kid scream because they were scared. Usually there's silence during the roll.
Then about 300' AGL or so, somebody says "COOL!".

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

Had my 5 year old grandson start crying at about 2500 ft. Since then
I teach them how to clear their ears before flying. Never had a kid
that didn't love it.

"Bill G" wrote in message
...
Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

The 2-to-4-year-olds I've taken flying were very excited until shortly after
takeoff. Then they fell asleep.

--Gary

My little girl (10) loves to fly but her ears always hurt, but other than
that they all seem to love it, and yes they fall asleep on long flights.
"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Bill G" wrote in message
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Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

The 2-to-4-year-olds I've taken flying were very excited until shortly
after takeoff. Then they fell asleep.

--Gary

Hi Bill -
I have 2 girls - 5 and 8 and they both love flying. My 8 year old
always wants to sit up front and the little one gets ****ed if she has
problems with her child headset (we fixed the sizing problems and all
is well now).

I am taking them to Ukiah this weekend and they can't wait... as long
as the weather holds out here in N. California (currently raining).

Take them - they'll have a blast, until they get bored...

Bill G wrote:
Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

Bill

All three of mine were calm, curious for a few minutes, then promptly
fell asleep. :-)


Matt

Bill G wrote:

Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first
time?

Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement
or were they pretty calm?

Bill

I have not flown any kids but myself and my brother used to fly with my
dad at just a year or two old. We had a blast.