Flying thirteen year old

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I finally figured out how to post pictures without the help of my kids, wife, or snot nose IT geek. I promise not to post anymore pictures this month.

Here is my thirteen year old sitting in the back of a DA40 on an IFR flight. Looks no hands flying by dad!



Here is a picture of me in the back and her flying and talking with route controllers. At the time we only had a Garmin 530 with the 430 as backup. Now we have a Garmin 1000 and for the life of me I can't figure out all of the functions. She has...as kids these days are very computer savy. Wish I had included the outside in this picture as we are in the soup. She was hand flying at the time instead of using the auto pilot. I am all for using the auto pilot, but she is still learning her scan.



The plane...the plane...



Just for fun.....I was two years away from retiring when my wife dropped this out! Had not named her till she was born and I remember uttering something like "I hope this is the last one" and the name Hope stuck. This is MY only HOPE.