19 Year Old Around the World Trip - Starts 6-2

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A300Capt said:
Single piston engine over the ocean......gives me the hibbie jibbies and night sweats just thinking about it. :aghast:
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Indeed, there are some long legs with some potential for nasty weather in between. I'm hoping he will only launch when the forecast is good as there isn't much deviating that can be done in a Bonanza without burning up all your reserves on those long legs.
 
Who built this kid's itinerary? 4 days in Abu Dhabi and 4 days in El Cajon, CA, yet he's blowing through BKK in less than 24hrs.

Note: on second thought, At 19 yrs old, maybe that's a good idea.....and maybe we should shorten his layover in MNL as well. Good luck!
 
Looks like that kid will be seeing lots of blue water soon.

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I thought that "youngest pilot to do this..." records were abolished after the 6 year old crashed in Cheyenne...
 
Schinpop said:
I thought that "youngest pilot to do this..." records were abolished after the 6 year old crashed in Cheyenne...
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Well, it's more like limitations on the attempts were enacted. Title VI of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 1996. Child Pilot Safety Act - "Prohibits a pilot in command of an aircraft from allowing an individual who does not hold a valid private pilot's certificate, and an appropriate medical certificate, to manipulate the controls of an aircraft if the pilot knows or should have known that the individual is attempting to set a record or engage in an aeronautical competition or aeronautical feat." I suppose a 17 year old is welcome to attempt record breaking flights.
 
"You don’t have to be old to achieve huge endeavors,"
"Nothing is impossible,"
"etc, etc, etc,"

... as long as daddy's rich.

But don't worry, he'll be the next person standing there telling you how hard he worked to get where he is.

I hate this crap. Age is completely irrelevant here—all it really says to me is: "Look how rich I am! I can fly around the world at 19, and that makes me special!"

Show me the kid who has to deal with growing up poor, works odd jobs to support himself through a soul-killing public-school education, and somehow manages to scrape enough together to get his pilots license, then finds a way to do something like this.

I'm sick of aviation news consisting primarily of people who solo five different types of airplanes on their 16th birthday on daddy's dime, then brag about their life and how well it's going.

There's no story here.

-Fox
 
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