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Your Dad don't because he's not Impressed by your flying skills.

But Mine is proud I fix helis.  Brags about it to his friends that there ain't nothing on his creeper van I can't fix for him or on his hog when the wires burn up under the stator.

I was a teenage kid obsessed with car stereo and would spend hours in my lil 1982 Datsun pickup running wires and installing amps and changing things around.  I remember him coming out the house one day and hollering at me to "leave that fking truck alone."  I think it was getting dark and time for me to come in.  That, and He was starting to get annoyed with me and the time I spent on the truck.  He could be a hard man to live with.  Probably why I joined the AF at such a young age, 17, to get away from his oppressive and overbearing rule.

He's changed in his old age.  We get along much better now.  Now, He'd probably encourage younger me to keep working on that old truck if he could go back in time and change his ways and not be such a hard as-s.

But yeah, my Dad's ok.