Originally Posted by
Crash one
what not to grab if he was worried.
At the charity I volunteer for we've got a lot of experience with flying with sick and handicapped children. Including Downs Syndrome and otherwise not mentally 100% kids.
What we learned (sometimes the hard way) is that you should approach things like this in a positive, not in a negative way. With which I mean that you should positively tell them what to do, and not what not to do.
So my brief is not "in a panic, don't touch the controls" but "in a panic, grab your shoulder harness". Not "let go of the controls" but "put your hands on your knees".