[flexcoders] flex 4 - NavigatorContent question / element parent

[bhaq1972]

I added a Panel component into a NavigatorContent

public function aMethod():void
{
  var nc:NavigatorContent = new NavigatorContent();

  nc.addElement(myPanel);
}
Now, in another method I want to access this NavigatorContent

eg
public function anotherMethod(myPanel:Panel):void
{
var nc:NavigatorContent = myPanel.parent as NavigatorContent;

however nc is not myPanel.parent.

doing a trace, the navigatorContent is actually 
the myPanel.parent.parent.parent

Is there not a property/method which gets me a reference to the element Parent  

(a bit like addChild() / parent relationship)