Young Eagle rides Saturday 10/6

Every once in a while the EAA, Experimental Aviation Assn, local chapter at the Hollister airport sponsors a Young Eagles event where local member pilots offer to take young prospective aviators for rides!  I was lucky to do four rides, the first with two brothers from a local family:

Looks like the boys were enjoying the ride!

My next Young Eagle was already a student-pilot taking lessons from a woman who pilots big jets for a living and also gives instruction in a single-engine Cessna 152 she and her husband own and operate locally.  Kaitlin's first flight in a "engine-less" plane with a stick instead of the yoke showed her to have the "Right Stuff" as she adapted smoothly to the longer wings requiring more rudder control.  I hope she chooses to pursue glider/soaring flight after she gets her private pilot's license in power.
Here she is flying me "around the patch":

After landing, her friend, Holly got in the front seat to enjoy her initiation to glider flight:

It was a beautiful day for rides.  Here's what our airport looks like from the east looking west:

Carmelina and her brother Donatello enjoyed their flight:

I look a little foolish trying to get down to their size!