Right on Zane!

Great job Zane! My girl stole my wife's headset a few times, but now she's back to liking her baby banz. Not sure why, but maybe less clamping. Here she is sharing a sucker with her T-Rex in the back seat.

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Going to or from a camping trip last year




Coming back from Orcas on Sunday

Great! Start 'em young!

My younger son was somewhat older than that, 3 1/2, when I first took the family up right after I got my license. He's never wanted to be a pilot, but he's enjoyed flying with me off and on through the years. Hard to believe that my littlest tiny kid will be 48 in another 3 weeks, and my oldest grandson will be 9! Gawd but I'm getting old!

Here's a little story about my younger son and flying. He would have been about 5. One day while I was working on my commercial and before I was in any ownership situation, I wanted to go up and practice commercial maneuvers in a rental 172. He asked if he could go along, and of course I said he could. As we taxied out, he said, "Dad, could we do a flip?" "What's a flip?" "You know, where the airplane goes like this" as he made the sounds of an engine sputtering and then used his hand in a spinning motion. So I said, "That's a spin, and sure, we can do that."

So we climbed up to about 11,000' toward the northeast of Laramie, and I put it into a 2 turn spin. As we pulled out of the bottom, he said, "WOW! That was scary! Can we do another one?" So again, we climbed up to about 11,000', and this time we did about 1 1/2 turns the other direction. After pulling out of that one, we flew north so that I could practice lazy 8s and 8s on pylons along the railroad track.

When we got home, Wife 1 really lit into me. Turns out she was in the front yard of our house and could see both spins! Like everyone who has ever seen a spin for the first time, she was sure she was going to watch us die, because that's what always happens in the movies when an airplane starts spinning. Things were pretty cold for awhile, to say the least.

Cary

Mine's not quite there yet... won't keep a set of ear muffs on. She's 15 months.

Zzz wrote:Finally pulled it off. Wasn't really in a hurry to take the family up, but my daughter has really discovered what airplanes are lately and always points them out when she hears or sees them flying over. It's pretty awesome, she's only 19.5 months old.



Visited a friend's place here in the Willamette Valley. Aside from a concerned look when the engine fired up, and a little reluctance to wear her earmuffs, she loved the flying. I ordered a an actual child's headset today so she can hear us on the intercom. That part seemed to bug her a little, that our mouths moved and she heard nothing.


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Awesome Zane. I hope you got the ones with the built in jack for iPads, etc. Invaluable!


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I'm a little late to the party but here goes:


This is my middle son. He's about 6 years old in this picture (25 now).

Fast forward to last weekend. These are of a little girl who is our non-biological granddaughter. She stays with us every couple of weeks. She's not quite two years old, loves airplanes and thinks I'm pretty cool for some reason.

She's too young to strap into the plane so my girlfriend sat on the ground while I did three laps in the pattern. Then she got a ride from the gas pump back to my hangar. She loved it.




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Hey all,

I'm new to the forum! I just bought a Cessna 205 and can't wait to take the whole family up! I'll post more pictures then.

But for now, here is a video of a little miscommunication I had with my 3 year old before I bought an intercom for the ratty 172 we used to rent. I didn't realize what he was actually asking until I reviewed the video that night. Poor guy. https://youtu.be/qyxOzkLjHrg

And here we are flying just the two of us for the first time. This time we had an intercom and he loved it.

Welcome to the 205 club. Awesome plane. We love ours. FYI, you might be interested in the 205 Owners FB page. Also, check out my baggage mod thread. I put it in this spring and another friend just got approval. Definitely worth it!


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Kid pickup in Idaho from grandma's house today after our race.




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Jacoby with the wagon at ragmuff


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Very nice! Where is this? I just moved to Nevada and am itching to fly to locations like this!

Flying with my favorite Co-pilot. Out of 3 boys, he has a 110% interest in all things that fly. He was quite mad when we landed. He told Mom that dad didn't let him fly. Because I told him dont touch anything. lol Next time we flew I let him hold the yoke. Summer 2016

Asked my daughter if we should go flying in my plane, she said "no, your airplane doesn't have wings to fly daddy! We take mine." So we did.
I guess I'll have to get the wings on my 206 one of these days...

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A friend stopped by the other night and let the kids check out his plane




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First time post and brand new plane owner! Here are a few from the 1st family trip to a grass strip.

I recognize that 205. Saw it for sale. Make sure to check out the 205 Owners FB page. Where are you based out of?


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Yeah, just bought it a few weeks ago, already have 30 hours on it! I am based at N57 New Garden Airport, Pennsylvania.

My kids in the Supercub






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Took the little guy up this labor day. He did great. Just kept taking his headset off. It's weird... he's stopped listening to us (just kidding).