Nina's Adventures in Aviation
Ms. Nina took a trip to Savannah. Thanks to the gate agent and crew, on the flight down, she got to enjoy her own seat in first class on a CRJ-701, operated by PSA Airlines. On the return flight, she got to ride on Mommy’s lap on a CRJ-200, also operated by PSA Airlines.
Ms. Nina is now an expert passenger. She did want to review the safety information just in case.
Ms. Nina fell asleep before we even taxied for takeoff. She stayed asleep most of the flight and only woke up the last ten minutes to each lots and lots of goldfish.
Advice to other parents: mount the car seat facing forward, not backwards. That way when the pilots accelerate for takeoff, their heads don’t flop down onto their chest.
Ms. Nina and Abba sat back in coach on an E-175 while Mommy got to enjoy first class en route to Key West. Nina was an excellent passenger.
Captain Nina had her first chance to sit in the left seat of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737. As you can probably see from the tears, she wasn’t quite ready to take the controls by herself, but rather, preferred sitting on Mommy’s lap. Maybe next time. Or maybe she’ll start off with a Schweizer SGS 2-33 instead.
Ms. Nina is already an expert passenger on one of her regular flights to Tampa. She was very happy to have her own seat on the flight. We luv Southwest Airlines!
At 16 months, Ms. Nina took her first international flight from IAD to FRA. The flight lasted approximately 8 hours on an Luftansa Airbus A-330. While she wanted to get a flight-deck seat and log some SIC flight time, she fell asleep in the back instead. Oh well, next time Airbus.
Ms. Nina missed her first standby flight from BWI to TPA, so she is waiting at the USO for her next flight from BWI to RSW. In the meantime, she learns about Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness (LTE) in helicopters and how it is actually human-induced. She is eight months old.
Ms. Nina learns all about airport operations while she watches an Airbus A-330 taxi into the gate at Tampa International Airport. She is waiting for one of her many flights from TPA to DCA. She is only eight months old so she may have to start small with the Airbus A-319 before transitioning to the A-330.
Ms. Nina is already a seasoned traveler by eight months. Here she is learning about how airflow over an airfoil creates lift. She is on one of her many flights from BWI to TPA.