brag: my wife, PP ASEL! (was "brag: my wife, PIC!")
Jim Lin
>My wife acted as PIC for her first time
>yesterday (at LAF)!
Congrats to you and your wife! I actually showed up to putter
around the patch in 48H just as she and Dan were finishing up
their post checkride debrief. I guess now you all are that much
closer to being able to extend effective range for weekend
trips in your plane, eh? Again, congrats to the both of you!
Jim
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Kyler Laird
>My wife acted as PIC for her first time
>yesterday (at LAF)!
Well...yesterday, while I was thrashing around in
a sim. (recurrent training), my wife earned her
PP ASEL certificate. She started in June and
has logged ~70 hours. (Just in time - I'm not
night current in singles now.)
Way cool. She's already getting ready to take an
Instrument course at Purdue next semester with
her Dad, and she's scheduled to get complex
training (in an Arrow) tomorrow. (I tried to get
her to go straight to multi, but her instructor
isn't an MEI.)
So ya see...not *every* wife is a thorn in her
pilot husband's side!
Now to find an instructor with an Aztec to give
her a "cheap and fast multi-engine rating" (see
the thread in rec.aviation.misc) so she can start
logging hood time with me! And then when she
gets her commercial, she can start doing check
runs...
--kyler
robert a barker
la...@freedom.ecn.purdue.edu says...
>
>On September 10, 1999, I wrote:
>>My wife acted as PIC for her first time
>>yesterday (at LAF)!
>
>Well...yesterday, while I was thrashing around in
>a sim. (recurrent training), my wife earned her
>PP ASEL certificate.
>
>--kyler
kyler: CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR WIFE!!!!!!! Your only flying problem will
be "no it's my turn for the left seat" :-)
All the best to both of you
Bob (48 years with the same gal) Barker
Jerry Kurata
If you don;t mind me asking, was it she at all reluctant to take up flying.
I think my wife would be a great pilot, but I can't get her to take lessons.
My 10 year daughter takes lessons, but not my wife.
Kyler Laird <la...@freedom.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote in message
news:83motl$1vp$1...@mozo.cc.purdue.edu...
> On September 10, 1999, I wrote:
> >My wife acted as PIC for her first time
> >yesterday (at LAF)!
>
> Well...yesterday, while I was thrashing around in
> a sim. (recurrent training), my wife earned her
Ron Natalie
Kyler Laird wrote:
>
> On September 10, 1999, I wrote:
> >My wife acted as PIC for her first time
> >yesterday (at LAF)!
>
> Well...yesterday, while I was thrashing around in
> a sim. (recurrent training), my wife earned her
> PP ASEL certificate. She started in June and
> has logged ~70 hours. (Just in time - I'm not
> night current in singles now.)
Yeah, you both are in for it now. She's gonna
want to fly half the legs (I gotta keep peeking
at Margy's log book to make sure she's not getting
ahead of me :-).
Actually, Margy found if she buys me toys like
GPS's I'll sit in the right seat and leave her
alone while she flies.
James M. Knox
>Well...yesterday, while I was thrashing around in
>a sim. (recurrent training), my wife earned her
>PP ASEL certificate. She started in June and
>has logged ~70 hours. (Just in time - I'm not
>night current in singles now.)
That's great!!! Tell her she has our heartiest congratulations!
jmk
Kyler Laird
>If you don;t mind me asking,
Not at all. I'll blather on for days on the subject.
>was it she at all reluctant to take up flying.
Well, she wanted to take lessons when she was in
college (when her father started flying), but time
and money constraints prevented it.
A couple years ago, she quit her job here at Purdue
and moved down to Bloomington to get her Masters.
With her gone, I bought a plane! Unfortunately the
restoration took the entire time that she was down
there.
Once I could finally fly it (this summer), she was
into flying - only because I was taking her to Van's
(MIE) for dinner every chance I got (in a club
plane). Long drives are now a rarity.
I tried to get her to fly with me, but running the
radios was about as far as she'd go. After she
moved back here and finished up her internship (in
town), she decided to take up flying lessons (to
avoid getting a paying job, I suspect). She's been
at it since.
I checked out in the right seat of our club planes
and I love going out with her doing everything. It
has been a huge leap from the days where she
refused to even touch the yoke.
So...yes, she was reluctant to take up flying - with
me, but she has found a great (female) instructor
with whom she's comfortable and they've excelled.
I think becoming a pilot is a great self-confidence
booster. (Stereotype alert!) I suspect that it
generally has a more pronounced effect on women.
>I think my wife would be a great pilot, but I can't get her to take lessons.
Try "Hey, honey, why don't you quit your job and
take a flight lesson once a day?" Worked for me.
>My 10 year daughter takes lessons, but not my wife.
That's a great start! She won't be able to solo
for a long time, though. If your wife would just
take lessons with her, they could take (more
stereotyping...) shopping trips together.
BTW, my wife encouraged one of our friends to take
lessons, too. I think it's helped both of them to
have a friend going through the process. Again, I
think this is especially important for women.
--kyler
Jerry Kurata
> >I think my wife would be a great pilot, but I can't get her to take
lessons.
>
> Try "Hey, honey, why don't you quit your job and
> take a flight lesson once a day?" Worked for me.
>
No way! She started the company that makes the money to buy the planes!
Paul & Gen
<385F89FD...@sensor.com>...
<snip>> Yeah, you both are in for it now. She's gonna
> want to fly half the legs (I gotta keep peeking
> at Margy's log book to make sure she's not getting
> ahead of me :-).
> Actually, Margy found if she buys me toys like
> GPS's I'll sit in the right seat and leave her
> alone while she flies.
That didn't work for use. He'd only play with the toy for a little while,
then he'd whine. We had to get another airplane.......
Damn but it's hard keeping them both in the air, though. Always seem to be
working on one or the other.......
Gen