Mann-aging Flying

Paula Xiberras

I recently spoke to Vanessa Mann author of ‘Junior Flyer logbook’, Vanessa and her family are frequent flyers to the mainland (Vanessa’s original home until she met a Hobart boy!) for business and to visit family.

Vanessa was frustrated that there wasn’t a resource available for her children, who have already made trips to Japan and Vanuatu, to gain the most from their flying experience. Seeing a need in the market for a travel diary, the ‘Junior Flyer logbook’ was born. It also aims to inform children with a little aeronautical history, some fun facts and encourage them to record the details of their trip so they can look back with appreciation in the future and continue their love of travel.

The log book encourages young flyers to record their seat number, the reason for travel, where they are headed and most perhaps most importantly and exciting for youngsters the movies they saw and meal(s) they ate.

There’s also information essential for all future pilots, a labelled diagram of parts of a plane, an amazing altitude chart for kids to be in awe over and interesting trivia on how air traffic controllers can tell the difference between planes from Hobart in Australia and Hobart in Oklahoma.

There are a plethora of air travel related facts to quiz fellow junior travellers over such as the fact that the highest airport in the world is in Tibet, while Don Muang airport in Thailand has a golf course between landing strips, that the Queen does not possess a passport and most interesting Australians can learn to fly at age fifteen even though they can’t drive a car for a year or more later!

You can read more and buy the book and other products here:

https://www.juniorflyers.com.au/pages/news