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My Three-year-old Son The Spotter...  
User currently offlineN229NW From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 1850 posts, RR: 36
Posted (4 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1401 times:

Recently, my three-year-old son has stopped saying "hey look, an airplane!" Instead, he "identifies" models. Well, let me rephrase that: he points to the sky and makes up random numbers.

"Look, a forty-six seven!" was his most recent.

Should I be proud or worried?   

[Edited 2008-08-26 14:24:03]


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User currently offlineKAUST From United States of America, joined Jun 2009, 91 posts, RR: 27
Reply 1, posted (4 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1394 times:

Just be thankful it is not some grownup whom is supposedly "in the know" and teaching him those numbers as if he or she were teaching him the different aircraft types.  Silly


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User currently offlineHywel From Peru, joined Apr 2008, 719 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (4 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1385 times:

I'd only be worried if he's calling all the aircraft a sixty-nine and asking what the mile high club is  Wink

User currently offlineWILCO737 From Greenland, joined Jun 2004, 8476 posts, RR: 78
Reply 3, posted (4 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1380 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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Quoting N229NW (Thread starter):
"Look, a forty-six seven!" was his most recent.

Sounds like the typical spotter, one of those "I-Know-everything" spotter  duck 

Quoting N229NW (Thread starter):
Should I be proud or worried?

Proud of course! You cannot start early enough. And not long to wait and he will do it perfectly right  thumbsup 

Quoting Hywel (Reply 2):
I'd only be worried if he's calling all the aircraft a sixty-nine and asking what the mile high club is Wink

 rotfl  indeed.

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User currently offlineAlexEU From Serbia, joined Oct 2007, 1791 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (4 years 9 months 2 days ago) and read 1366 times:

As long as he is not interested in B767 cargo bay, or the retirement of NW DC-9.

User currently offlineBok269 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 2105 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1286 times:



Quoting Hywel (Reply 2):
I'd only be worried if he's calling all the aircraft a sixty-nine and asking what the mile high club is  

At least then you'd be assured he'd never end up on Anet.


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User currently offlineSeb146 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9831 posts, RR: 17
Reply 6, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1248 times:

I was the same way when I was that age. I could always the differences between 727, DC9 and 707. I couldn't always say much about it, but I studied. I can see it in my 2 year old nephew, too. Feed his curiosity.


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User currently offlineHAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58
Reply 7, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1193 times:



Quoting N229NW (Thread starter):
Should I be proud or worried?

Proud now....Worried later when he decides to purchase some expensive spotting gear with your credit card  wink 
regds
MEL


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User currently offlineThom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11949 posts, RR: 50
Reply 8, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1172 times:



Quoting N229NW (Thread starter):
"Look, a forty-six seven!" was his most recent.

Should I be proud or worried?

Yeah, proud now, maybe worry a bit more when he's 20 and says "Look dad, another one of them 4 engined 737s..."

Thom@s


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User currently offlineDeaphen From India, joined Jul 2005, 1418 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1168 times:

You should be proud!

Your son is still young and smart.... the real achievement has been mine, my girlfriend can tell the difference between the 330, 320, 340, 747 and 737! Now thats good training!  Wink

***fingers crossed she's not slying on a.net***


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User currently offlineDABZF From Germany, joined Mar 2004, 1190 posts, RR: 1
Reply 10, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1166 times:

Yeah, I'd be worried... poor kid should get better hobbies than standing on the side of a runway...  Wink

My godson is 7 and recognises the aircraft models at least as well as I do... if not better...
Way too many trips to the airport with the "uncle" and dad  silly 

He's first was "AILBUZZ" (Airbus) which he called every aircraft around age of 3...


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User currently offlineCzbbflier From Canada, joined Jul 2006, 933 posts, RR: 2
Reply 11, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1141 times:

This is great news!

Quality time between dad and son will mean repeated trips to the airport for years and years and years and years.......... Keep up the good work!

User currently offlineN229NW From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 1850 posts, RR: 36
Reply 12, posted (4 years 9 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1079 times:



Quoting Hywel (Reply 2):
I'd only be worried if he's calling all the aircraft a sixty-nine and asking what the mile high club is

Nice...

Quoting DABZF (Reply 10):
Yeah, I'd be worried... poor kid should get better hobbies than standing on the side of a runway...

He's into trains too...  silly 


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User currently offlineLASOctoberB6 From Japan, joined Nov 2006, 2380 posts, RR: 1
Reply 13, posted (4 years 9 months 23 hours ago) and read 1015 times:



Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 3):
"I-Know-everything"

Hey, I try not to do that! If I don't know, I simply say that I don't know with no problem with it.. Big grin  Wink

Quoting N229NW (Reply 12):
He's into trains too...

I'm into all three.. Airplanes, buses, and trains..and on a dirty day, trucks. I got the brunt of it.. Big grin


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User currently offlineHAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58
Reply 14, posted (4 years 9 months 11 hours ago) and read 971 times:



Quoting Thom@s (Reply 8):
Yeah, proud now, maybe worry a bit more when he's 20 and says "Look dad, another one of them 4 engined 737s..."

He may be right.....considering a B737 built at that time with Four Engines..... wink 
The current ones have Three.....Don't forget the APU. biggrin 
regds
MEL


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