So, unless Mrs GtW changes her mind I'll be able to take anyone I like for a ride ... except my own kids. Is this a unique situation or a common problem?
She'll relent. Mrs. QDM felt the same, particularly as she considers me extremely impractical, lacking in common sense and reckons (wrongly) that I can't wire a plug. Eventually, though, she got so used to me flying and not getting killed that she lets me take child number one up (the others are too young), although she's still not overjoyed about it.
Child number one, needless to say, loves it and we took the plane and went camping last weekend at a farmstrip about 30 miles away. It was great -- the reason I got my licence back and bought an aircraft.
QDM