FAA reviewing football fly-over

http://www.charlotte.com/ ^ | 11/4/07 | MARK PRICE

[Squawk 8888]

17 years old is the youngest you can get a pilot's license.

That's the minimum age for a PPL. Additionally, there is the Recreational Pilot Permit (1 passenger max) with a minimum age (in Canada) of 16, and the Student Pilot Permit (solo only) with a minimum age here of 14.

[Rennes Templar]

Very cool. I’m jealous. During the national anthem at the local Montana State - Northern Arizona game, a couple of sparrows flew over the crowd.

[gridlock]

When I was a kid most of my stupid illegal pranks involved homemade explosives.

I always told my kids that I used to have six fingers on each hand, but blew one finger off each with explosives back when I was a kid.

The believed me until they were about 10. Of course, according to their mother, that sounds like something I would do...

[Turbopilot]

17 years old is the youngest you can get a pilot's license.

That's the minimum age for a PPL.

That's the minimum age for a PPL with an Airplane rating. The Glider rating is 14/solo and 16/certificate. (I knew some kids who did this, but unfortunately I didn't go for it myself.) Also, while I think you can get a student pilot certificate in the U.S. at 14, you still have to be 16 to solo.

</FAR nitpicking>

[Squawk 8888]

I’m not sure about the US rules, but here no permit of any kind is required (nor are there age restrictions) for dual flying; a student permit is required to solo. Like the USA, the ages I cited were for the Aeroplane category; the minimum age for PPL- Glider is 16.

[Aquinasfan]

Wow, 10 whole days suspension!!! The horrors!!! All three should be spending the next 10 years behind bars.

No kidding! He sure gave this guy a tough decision to make.

“Then, as he circled, you saw that it was kids in the plane, and I was hoping it that it was just some kind of prank. I was thinking to myself: ‘Should I empty the stands and risk someone being trampled or see what happens?’ I knew for sure someone would get hurt if I emptied the stands.”

[Caramelgal]

Recruit them for Top Gun!

Suspend the pilot from school ... ten send him to the astronaut program at NASA. :)

This kid may have some good flying skills and some great big kahoohnas (something that a good fighter pilot needs) but I would hope he has a lot more growing up to do and demonstrates a lot better judgment and maturity and understanding of personal responsibility and integrity in the future before our Navy or USAF would consider him for flight school.

The military is a great place for kids with spirit but our military is not and should not be a reform school for malcontents, sociopaths and criminals.

We sure don’t need more Lisa Nowak types in NASA.

Maybe this kid was only engaging, one time, in what he thought was a harmless prank and if so, he shouldn’t be punished too severely.

But if he has a past pattern of flaunting the law and the safety of others, I don’t think he is military material.

[alarm rider]

Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full....

[Samurai_Jack]

WRONG FIELD??!!