First-time passengers in light airplanes can be a skittish breed. You never really know how they’ll react. Hero types sometimes dissolve into ashen-faced putty. Shrinking violets sometimes prove to be the most adventurous, pressing you for steeper and steeper turns.
Sometimes it can be hard to recognize when someone is less than enthusiastic about going for an airplane ride, whether it’s a jaunt around the pattern or a time-saving cross-country business trip with a colleague. They don’t want to admit they have misgivings about strapping themselves into a tiny machine that will take them a couple of miles above Mother Earth.
