More than two hundred kids flew across the Okanagan final weekend and got the threat to revel in the world of aviation. The Kelowna Flying Club held the annual COPA for Kids Junior Aviator Program at the Kelowna International Airport. From ages 8 to seventeen, Okanagan youths took to the skies with pilots, generously providing their time, knowledge, and aircraft. Participants of the occasion attended a brief floor school, wherein they discovered airplanes and had the danger of inviting questions before taking to the sky for a 20-minute flight.
“The Kelowna Flying club has been doing this event for over twenty years,” said Doris Livingstone, occasions planner with Kelowna Flying Club and customer support agent with WestJet. “We’re one in all the bigger activities in Canada now,” Livingstone stated. The event ignites a passion for kids to take into account an aviation career and help remedy the low numbers of pilots within Canada. I’ve been doing this now for the handiest three years.
I’ve visible a few kids back every 12 months, and they may be set on being a pilot,” said Livingstone. “Even a number of my colleagues at WestJet had been introduced to flying via COPA for Kids after they have been children. There’s a worldwide scarcity of pilots. We feel it here in Canada and America: anywhere wishes extra pilots.
To date, the COPA for Kids program has brought over 23,000 young Canadians to general aviation.
The Kelowna Flying Club has supplied flights for heaps of local adolescents in its time organizing the occasion on a local stage. It used to be that children have been handled as mini-adults, and now the pendulum has swung the opposite way, and teenagers are being handled (and acting) as overgrown youngsters. You have, in all likelihood, heard approximately the harm of being a too extreme parent–whether meaning tiger mom or helicopter discern.
Now you’ll be wondering what have to you be expecting of your child? The early life markers of independence–sitting, walking, potty education, etc.–get talked about loads; however, what is cheap to expect of our older youngsters is not as clean. Just what need our early adolescent/middle college children to be capable of doing on their very own?
