Lyle Townsend posted this video Dec. 15, 2017, of his flight with his new friend Crystal, who is a self-admitted nervous flyer. She reached out to Lyle on Instagram and asked if pilots are willing to take “scaredy cats” up flying in small airplanes.
“The only correct answer to this question is “ABSOLUTELY!” Lyle says.
In the video, we see how she handles being in the air in the Piper Cherokee 140. He tries several methods to make her less nervous, but he says that “all that matters is that we successfully convey our passion for aviation to the unassuming general public by displaying our highest professionalism, no matter what stage in flying we are in.”
https://youtu.be/wYMP5RhRaNo
The first best way to get newbies into the air is to take them up in a Cirrus. I send them a link to a chute pull so they can see how the aircraft floats to Earth in case of trouble. The rest is ooo and wow once in the plane.
Speaking of scaredy cats, I have another cat in mind that being copy cats whence I do wish they would cease using the word “Absolutely” to always mean “Yes” when grammatically it can just as easily be used to mean “No” as in Absolutely Yes or Absolutely No, etc. The word “absolutely” is a modifier used to add emphasis to a reply be it affirmative or negative in context. There…I feel better now!