Originally Posted by airpolice
I have NEVER allowed a non pilot to handle the controls, it's taken two years to teach my wife to work the transponder and GNS450.
I would like to allow certain pax, who have some experience, to handle the controls under benign circumstances but there's no point in that unless they can tell people they did it.... which will get me strung up...or will it?
Why have you NEVER allowed anyone to? Contrary to what a lot of pilots would like to believe, it's not particularly hard to control an aeroplane, especially in day VMC. Even if you do (horror of horrors) allow someone to fly, who are these bogeymen that are waiting to string you up?
Also - two years to learn how to work a transponder?!
I could probably train my dog to do it in that timescale.