Getting Your Start: Mom or Dad in Av?

[Wankel7]

I owe my discovery of aviation to my dad. He took me flying in his Ryan when I was about 7. After that I was hooked. He is retired Air Force and AA. After he retired from AA he went over to Net jets. I guess he could not be out of the game

If it weren’t for my dad bumping into the director of training for the company I am working for now I would still be flight instructing. And everything has been working out since.

Oddly enough we did not fly together much while I was learning to fly. I guess he was busy. I didn't take him flying for my first time until I had my comm. And I could not fly with him in the planes he got after he sold the Ryan Oh well they are nice to look at and dream.

My mom isn't a pilot but she is a flight attendant for AA. Going 30 years now and hates it. It is so bad right now. So I have been exposed to the industry since I can remember.

Wankel

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

My father flys tail-draggers out of a grass strip outside MSP and works for NWA as a mechanic. I believe he does ultrasounds of the aircraft structures looking for those cracks the human eye won't pick up. The tours of the hangars I get each year are pretty interesting. He provides alot of encouragement but I've found airplanes fascinating since I can remember. Don't know if he had anything to do about that.....


Mr. I.

 

[JRSLim]

Father kinda.

My father is a pilot, but I didn't grow up with him - didn;t meet him even until I was 20.

My mom had more to do with my aviation interests, even though she wasn't a pilot ( she does like planes though)
My aviation addiction started when I was about 3ish - watching airliners fly over and T-33s doing touch and gos etc.

And it just grew form there. Befor e I began flying I really loved airplanes.
Now, I am obsessed with airplanes!