Wives/girlfriends and flying

[FAWGie]

What really amazes me is the high percentage of pilot's partner's who do NOT enjoy flying....

My wife is just really nervous of being in any aircraft, so I have only taken her up on really good weather days to build her confidence.....

Despite flying being a lot safer for our partners and children than being in a car exposed to an "out of control" taxi, etc..... The mind still equates flying as dangerous....

I am reminded that several decades ago, the concept of rinding in a steam train was considered "dangerous" as the human body must surely undergo some sort of stress by the speeds involved...laughable today, but very real for them then......

[150]

What really amazes me is the high percentage of pilot's partner's who do NOT enjoy flying....

My wife is just really nervous of being in any aircraft, so I have only taken her up on really good weather days to build her confidence.....

My one gets now a little bit more confidence, but blue sky is also a must, otherwise she is even more nervous.

Last weekend, I wanted to take her up with my 4 month old baby-boy, but the seating is a problem, and in case I bounce the head position of the small one is not stable, despite of a kids-seat. Thats why we abandoned that idea for the time being, otherwise she has no problem any more :D

[ACE]

My wife is a bit nervous, she has flown with me but no great distance. She threw up in the back of a Cessna years ago during a flip with a friend, and it turned out to be morning sickness, she was pregnant with our first lighty and did not know it at the time.. My son is 15 and enjoys it - we went down to Lekoa Lodge near Villiers with 7 other trikes earlier in the year but turned back due to fog, flew 2.25 hours non-stop by the time we got back to Springs. My daughter is 8 and flew for the very first time the other weekend - thought it was cool !!

[krusty]

My wife absolutely loves it. I get a bit of cold shoulder when I go flying with my mates 'cos she wants to come too. Fixed wings and trikes - she LOVES it.

On Sunday at the airshow at FAVG, I'd been there for 2 solid days and wanted to go home, but no, wife wanted to watch more. Go figure?

The upside is that she let's me spend the cash on it!

I'm sending her on a parachuting course soon - it'll give her something to do when I fly

[kb]

I'm sending her on a parachuting course soon - it'll give her something to do when I fly

I can see where this is going. Krusty's going to get a plane, go flying with wifey on the back, and then she'll gonna bail out, and chute down.

[IFLYHI]

On Sunday at the airshow at FAVG, I'd been there for 2 solid days and wanted to go home, but no, wife wanted to watch more. Go figure?

Reminds of a poster I saw "The perfect attitude for the perfect woman"

I quote "You so sexy when you hangover, No hurry have another drink, I'm bored lets shave my........."
In your case: We can always see my folks but this airshow is only once a year

[Sonex711]

I struggle to get my wife in to a 747, let alone my t-bird. Managed 3 times to get her airborne - 1st time she said she was keen - got to about 50' and she asked if we could land now - did a very tight circuit!

Even though she hates flying, she sh!ts on me when I haven't been flying for a while. Great motivator to get me off the couch!

[150]

I must admit the very first (and just about the last) time my wife flew with me in a trike I ran out of fuel
Luckily was in gliding distance of the airstrip

So you can enjoy your hobby with your buddies

[Tailspin]

My wife refuses to fly with me.

Something about having an accident and us not being around to look after our littleone, she will only fly if all of us can go together. I have taken her and littleone up in a friends piper and no problems. Hell she even flew with Big G and enjoyed it.

But as a whole she is not chuffed about this crazy thing called flying. Specially not in that "egg beater on steroids" as she puts it.

[DarkHelmet]

A friend of mine has the same predicament - He does not fly with his wife either - but if any flying is to be done she goes up with another experienced pilot so all their eggs are not in one basket so to speak.

[Morph]

There is a guy at our airfield who also has the same issue, and I don't understand the logic. I believe you stand a higher chance of getting killed in a car on even worse on a bike purely because we spend so much time in them and you have so much out of your control, i.e. other drivers. Using this logic means that you would never travel with your wife, or heaven forbid your kids in the same car.

I have a mother-in-law and a sister-in-law who are petrified of flying. Neither have ever flown, or even set foot in a plane of any sort. To most flying is out of reach, and we are seen as those crazy men in their flying machines. It's a matter of education and where you can, take people for a little flight. Often this changes their minds.

[Tailspin]

Morpheus

Good luck trying to get my mother in law into a Light aircraft, she only flies big buggers like going over seas etc. Also anything in the news about an aircraft going down and i have it in the neck for weeks about how dangerous flying is, i am never going to take her daughter into that, and if she ever catches me flying her grand child in that contraption .

[Morph]

I wish that all vehicle accidents would carry the same coverage in the press as flying does. They would be too scared to leave the house, in fact don't touch anything electrical, bath, swim, have dogs, eat..... all of these have been known to kill.

Actually maybe this is all a blessing in disguise. My plane is the one place where I can get away from it/them all

[Tailspin]

Now you are Learning Grasshopper

It is the one place YOU have all the say

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DAMN

i need to finish my plane and get going