Originally Posted by
slim_slag
If he felt confident then yes I would let him, if he didn't then I'd advise him to practice some more before he went. It's a good analogy. Anyway, there was an instructor on board. Would you stop everybody driving downtown just because your kid crashed down there? What if it was a driving instructor who crashed, would you stop people driving downtown?
With all the "uncontrolled" civil aviation happening every day around Manhattan Island (I heard one Congressman equate it to the Wild West!) isn't it amazing that there haven't been more accidents before this one? I haven't even heard any statistics mentioned in the papers about how many successful "uncontrolled" flights there are every year through this airspace.