I couldn't agree more with you Chuck. I have never seen such a load of tosh in my entire life!
If you want to give your passenger a go on the controls then it is your responsibility to ensure that nothing happens to the aircraft. I have always given my passengers a chance to handle the aircraft and there a few of them that have been on done a PPL.
I went onto learn to fly after I was given a go at the controls and became instantly hooked.
It is little wonder that our sport is a dying one, we are killing it from within by a stupid fascination for rules and making up new ones to make our lives more difficult when none can be found to cater for the latest fixation!
The next thing we will be asking is for clarification on the rules of using a stepladder to fill a 152 or climbing on the strut steps, after all you might fall off the strut and land on your passenger maybe even forcing you to call a Mayday on the way down. How negligent would that be......
