PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Taking your mates up!
View Single Post
Old 19th Feb 2002, 03:09
  #2 (permalink)  
SteveR
 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Dorchester, Dorset
Posts: 293
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

You can't know how they'll react, so I wouldn't recommend taking loads in one go at the beginning. You've got a duty of care to them, and you won't be able to worry about 3 of them *and* keep the damn thing flying too easily - particularly if anything 'attention getting' happens.

Don't be tempted to take 'em one at a time for a lot of short hops either - you'll get absolutely knackered. (Besides, if you've got 7 people wanting to go, that's 7 people to take on longish flights, over several weeks, and cost share.....)

I had somebody throw up next to me when I had about 100 hrs - luckily he wasn't bothered about it himself, felt loads better afterwards apparently, but the smell didn't help me make cool decisions about getting us home.

Also, I like steep turns, but did on one occasion forget that the pax had never experienced one. I wasn't showing off, I just turned at the bank angle that I wanted, but they haven't forgotten it....

Two words which should never be heard in aviation - "watch" and "this"

SteveR

[ 18 February 2002: Message edited by: SteveR ]</p>
SteveR is offline