Question: Is there a best practice for getting a kid interested in aviation without enrolling them in ground school or flight training? My teens love airshows, but I don’t think they have the focus to be pilots just yet.
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Answer: Have you tried introducing them to model aircraft building or flying radio-controlled aircraft? With the latter, they can get a form of flying experience. The Academy of Model Aeronautics has chapters all over the world, and it offers information about the options for flying scale radio-controlled models.
Or you can start out by building scale kits. Many pilots began their “careers” model building and model flying. In fact in the early days of FLYING, there was a center spread of plans for model aircraft—the mass-produced plastic and balsa kits were still years away.
