Michael Hamlett submitted the following photo and note: “On a cool March morning, it’s time to go flying with N6577W, my 1965 Cherokee 140, and my favorite co-pilot, my daughter. She loves to fly and enjoys just watching the scenery beneath go by. She doesn’t ask many questions, just watches. Her first flight with me at 10 years old ended in the ever popular, “do you want to drive the plane back to the ramp?” I turned off the runway and she grabbed the yoke with both hands, made the 90° turns onto the taxiway and all the way to the ramp for a perfect parking job. We all know my feet did the work, but to a 10 year old, she was all smiles and concentration!”
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Agree with Mike Haraseviat, and congrats Michael and Ms. Hamlett! In the current climate, when men are too often generalized as bad guys against women, GA continues to prove that that “just ain’t so.”
Is that 10-year-old spirit still there, that she is thinking of getting her pilot’s license?
Very cool, no better way to start a morning than flying with your daughter!