Just filled out my boys' logbooks for the year. The older (4 years old) has 55 TT 15.7 TW, 36 SES. The younger (2 years old) has 18 TT 3.4 TW, and 12 SES. I keep the logbooks for their memories when I am gone. I do log it all as Dual since I figure they are learning something. I don't know if they will be pilots or not, but I have my dad's signature in one of my logbooks and it is a great memory.

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That is super cute. Lucky kids.

That is fantastic! I sure wish I had a log of all my youthful flying with my dad, uncle and grandfather.

Kurt

Mine have grown up in them. The older one didn’t want anything to do with it. The younger one would like to go everywhere upside down.

That is fabulous. I wasn't a CFI when my kids were little, but I logged dual for my niece and nephew, both under 12, last year. Pretty fun. I like wandering back through logbooks and looking at the flights, lots of memories in those entries.

Fantastic. Before I got my private, I had hundreds of hours in logbooks as a result of growing up with a flight instructor in the family.

Much later in life, I didn't fly for a few years and when I finally decided to get my certificate (because I got tired of someone else telling me how to fly LOL), I put all those aside and started a fresh logbook. I didn't want to look dumb as a student pilot with hundreds of hours...besides I didn't think dual instruction with a CFI starting at age 8 without a medical should count.

I wish I kept those logbooks! Your kids will be stoked.

Why shouldn't it count under 8? Why not 4, or 10 and a half? It is all arbitrary. The logbooks are for fun. However, I guarantee my 4 year old knows the traffic patterns and the atis better than a brand new ppl student. So they are getting something out of it.

I don't even know if f my kids will want to be pilots. It is just fun for me.

Aryana wrote:I didn't want to look dumb as a student pilot with hundreds of hours.

While reading an NTSB report, the involved pilot was a 4000 hour student pilot. He was doing something challenging, like landing off airport, on a ridge top, in a 40 mph crosswind. Of course, it had to be in Alaska. We also occasionally see the "non-certificated" pilot.

I once heard of an 8 year old whose Dad taught him to fly instruments because he was too short to see over the glare shield.

I think the kids will love the logbooks later in life, even if they don't become pilots.

My kids had no interest in flying when they were growing up, but at least they are eager passengers as adults.

Headoutdaplane wrote:Why shouldn't it count under 8? Why not 4, or 10 and a half? It is all arbitrary. The logbooks are for fun. However, I guarantee my 4 year old knows the traffic patterns and the atis better than a brand new ppl student. So they are getting something out of it.

I don't even know if f my kids will want to be pilots. It is just fun for me.

Even with each entry signed by a CFI, I wasn't gonna put that time forth to the FAA.

I agree you get something out of it for sure. As an adult, I hadn't flown in years and in just 3 weeks I got 9 lessons from my CFI finishing all 20 hours of dual and another 25 hours solo before taking my checkride and passing. My solo cross country was from San Diego to San Jose.

Part of the fun is that the 170B I own today is the same plane I soloed in and took my private check ride in.

It's been through 3 generations of pilots in the family. I'm working on getting the 4th ready.

That is awesome, I would love to have a plane in the family for that long. I really want to buy a plane that the boys could learn in, I recently got the chance to fly a bit in an Aeronca Sedan, it flies exactly like a J-3, and is cheap enough to screw around in (unlike the Beaver) so I have been keeping an eye out for one with the goal of teaching floats, and tailwheel, and then handing over to the boys when they are 11 or 12 (jokes! I am for jokes!....or am I?)

Headoutdaplane wrote:That is awesome, I would love to have a plane in the family for that long. I really want to buy a plane that the boys could learn in, I recently got the chance to fly a bit in an Aeronca Sedan, it flies exactly like a J-3, and is cheap enough to screw around in (unlike the Beaver) so I have been keeping an eye out for one with the goal of teaching floats, and tailwheel, and then handing over to the boys when they are 11 or 12 (jokes! I am for jokes!....or am I?)

Sedans are awesome! I blew it and halfway completed one before selling it to a guy in Canada who finished it and flew it on skis.

That would be a great forever plane to hand down to your boys!

Last time I was there there, (September?) there was a sedan for sale with floats & skis. The ownership has changed, but the phone number is the same I believe.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/1c3

Pete

Very Cool . You have given your kids a time capsule they can look at and always remember the good times with their Dad .

I come from the other side of the fence . First in the family into GA .
I do wish I could carry my grandkids up but in a family of commercial plane riders all GA aircraft self destruct seconds after leaving the ground .
It’s gonna be a tough sell to say the least

Not a CFI but the boys love the time at the controls! Quality time for sure!