Posted on 07/12/2009 10:56:26 AM PDT by thecodont
A 15-year-old Los Angeles girl who navigated a single-engine Cessna through thunderstorms in Texas and took in breathtaking aerial views of Arizona's sunsets landed her plane to cheering crowds at Compton Woodley Airport on Saturday. She is believed to be the youngest African American female pilot to fly solo across the country.
Kimberly Anyadike took off from Compton 13 days ago with an adult safety pilot and Levi Thornhill, an 87-year-old who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. They flew to Newport News, Va., making about a dozen stops along the way.
Anyadike learned to fly a plane and helicopter when she was 12 with the Compton-based Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum, which offers aviation lessons to at-risk youth and economically disadvantaged students through an after-school program. The organization owns the small plane Anyadike flew.
Anyadike said she loved the feeling of streaking across the sky. She told her mother that it was like a wild ride at Magic Mountain.
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Ref post #45.
Thank you. Another true story with good laugh.
Of course you are correct.....and also understand the topic of discussion....thank you...:o)
Thank you.
No doubt!...LOL!
Is this part of the new federal program, Midnight Barnstorming?
Just because a kid is sitting in the left seat doesn't mean much of anything. Legal responsibility lies with the certificated safety pilot...who is pilot in command. You cannot log solo time or pilot in command time until you are 16.
And you would be correct.
You can “fly” an aircraft while in diapers. . .but it can’t be solo nor can you log the time.
And that is only after receiving required instruction and being signed off to solo by a CFI. Even then your first solos are limited to the airport traffic pattern and supervised from the ground. The press makes it sound like a bunch of kids are out flying airplanes around which is utter nonsense.
“Safety pilot” is the PIC?
What of an evaluator pilot. . .doesn’t he perform safety duties?
Just asking. . . .as there is, as far as I know, no “Safety Pilot” time you can log.
A nine year old white male did it in the eighties but he never gets mentioned in these stories.
Yeah not much requirement for sitting in the seat and handling the yoke for a while...
Then in that case, the little girl was simply along for the ride.
Actually this same scenario happens quite a bit but never gets news coverage...
I wish those that write this stuff would stop calling the guy a “safety pilot.”
There is no such rating.
The guy is the pilot, the rated pilot, and he was PIC, not the girl.
Yup. . .my son held the stick when he was 4-yrs old. Barely reached the stick being strapped in and all that, but he held the stick, nonetheless. Doesn’t that count for something. . . ?
Well yes and no. Legally yes. Trouble with these stories is you never know who actually did all the flying and when. She may have held the yoke droning along in cruise doing none of the navigation or she may have made all the takeoffs and landings too. But if something happens and you are the safety pilot your a** is grass. What I object to is spreading the idea that kids are out there in those little airplanes over your heads flying solo or totally in control...
A big smile on his face but not much more I'm afraid...:o)
Yeah you are right...it gives the non-flying public the wrong impression...
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