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Taking a girl you're already romantically involved with flying in a puddlejumper or somesuch, and using the "I'm a pilot" line in a club are leagues apart.
Even when someone brings it up in conversation, I tend to change the subject (forget the talking baby, come and see my hangar) 
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Originally Posted by Martin @ EGLK
Oh definitely.
There's nothing like a surprise trip to the IoW for lunch to get things going
There's nothing like a surprise trip to the IoW for lunch to get things going
I have never ceased to be amazed by how much money men will spend in the pursuit of impossible goals.
Wake up gentlemen, it is the other sex that does the deciding. It doesn't matter if you have a microlight or a Gulfstream V, if she doesn't fancy you it doesn't matter a t*ss.
Save yourself a fortune and make yourself a very expensive person to get to know!
Wake up gentlemen, it is the other sex that does the deciding. It doesn't matter if you have a microlight or a Gulfstream V, if she doesn't fancy you it doesn't matter a t*ss.
Save yourself a fortune and make yourself a very expensive person to get to know!
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I did take Mrs GtW for a ride in a 152 before she was Mrs GtW ... she was very insistent on giving her name as "Dr. ..." when filling in the club form so that they wouldn't think she was just a dumb blonde who was exchanging ... er, who knows what ... for a plane ride.
(Now she won't let me take her flying. We're not allowed to be both in the same light aircraft, leaving the kids on the ground, unless there's a "real" pilot along.)
(Now she won't let me take her flying. We're not allowed to be both in the same light aircraft, leaving the kids on the ground, unless there's a "real" pilot along.)
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Indeed an odd thread...
Having discovered the flying bit before the fact that airfields contain more men than women, I'm pretty certain I don't represent the females that this thread seems to be concerned with. However, the fact is that my best friendships have been made there, wherever there happens to have been, with a very few extra special friendships evolving through the shared territory.
In an unscientific, disinterested, sporadic observation, I've noticed that flying has made and broken many relationships, probably in equal number.
If one wants to impress a female, the lunch in Le Touquet may only impress one person and possibly only on one occasion; I'd be more concerned about what such a display reveals to all the others on the airfield with whom one may well need to mix for considerably longer.
'Propellorhead' explored the issue before you...take heed......
Having discovered the flying bit before the fact that airfields contain more men than women, I'm pretty certain I don't represent the females that this thread seems to be concerned with. However, the fact is that my best friendships have been made there, wherever there happens to have been, with a very few extra special friendships evolving through the shared territory.
In an unscientific, disinterested, sporadic observation, I've noticed that flying has made and broken many relationships, probably in equal number.
If one wants to impress a female, the lunch in Le Touquet may only impress one person and possibly only on one occasion; I'd be more concerned about what such a display reveals to all the others on the airfield with whom one may well need to mix for considerably longer.
'Propellorhead' explored the issue before you...take heed......
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Once upon a time, perhaps.
I seem to have developed a taste for champagne and single malt now...
To be truthful, a good ice cream on a quiet beach within walking distance of the two aeroplanes tied down side by side.......hard to beat....
I seem to have developed a taste for champagne and single malt now...
To be truthful, a good ice cream on a quiet beach within walking distance of the two aeroplanes tied down side by side.......hard to beat....
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Originally Posted by Gertrude the Wombat
I did take Mrs GtW for a ride in a 152 before she was Mrs GtW ... she was very insistent on giving her name as "Dr. ..." when filling in the club form so that they wouldn't think she was just a dumb blonde who was exchanging ... er, who knows what ... for a plane ride.
(Now she won't let me take her flying. We're not allowed to be both in the same light aircraft, leaving the kids on the ground, unless there's a "real" pilot along.)
(Now she won't let me take her flying. We're not allowed to be both in the same light aircraft, leaving the kids on the ground, unless there's a "real" pilot along.)
Seems to me that this isn't the only thing women pretend to enjoy before they're married, and which they give up the minute they have a ring on the finger and rugrats running around the house...I'll leave those other things up to your imaginations.
Fat chance I'll ever get her into my Beech, or to even like any of my pilot buddies.
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I can relate to this thread, but from a different angle.
I had a weekend flying lesson booked last year. My girlfriend usually comes along on weekend lessons and, like the weekends before, we spent the time before my lesson playing pool against eachother. She's pretty good at pool so when it came time for me to get airborne I left her playing against some of the other club members.
After an hour or so lesson we landed and taxied back to park up. I walk into the building eager to find out who won the game and let my girlfriend know that we'll be leaving soon. I couldn't find her anywhere nor could I find the guy she was playing pool against! My instructor correlates a missing plane with the missing people and asks the ops staff what's going on. Op's confirms that, "the couple playing pool went flying together". "Unfair!!", I think to myself. He beat me to it. Ok. Ok. We did sneak her on one training flight before but I wasn't PIC that time.
As I think how unfair it is I notice my instructor starting to go quite pale and seem very concerned that the guy who is flying her actually doesn't have his PPL yet! Horror of horrors!
What am I going to tell the future in-laws! Afer a few minutes of terror thankfully a bit of confusion over the pilot's name was noticed and it was ascertained he did indeed have his PPL - but only just! A short while later the two of them waltz back into the building headsets in hand.
The moral of the story? Leave your loved ones at home!
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I had a weekend flying lesson booked last year. My girlfriend usually comes along on weekend lessons and, like the weekends before, we spent the time before my lesson playing pool against eachother. She's pretty good at pool so when it came time for me to get airborne I left her playing against some of the other club members.
After an hour or so lesson we landed and taxied back to park up. I walk into the building eager to find out who won the game and let my girlfriend know that we'll be leaving soon. I couldn't find her anywhere nor could I find the guy she was playing pool against! My instructor correlates a missing plane with the missing people and asks the ops staff what's going on. Op's confirms that, "the couple playing pool went flying together". "Unfair!!", I think to myself. He beat me to it. Ok. Ok. We did sneak her on one training flight before but I wasn't PIC that time.
As I think how unfair it is I notice my instructor starting to go quite pale and seem very concerned that the guy who is flying her actually doesn't have his PPL yet! Horror of horrors!
What am I going to tell the future in-laws! Afer a few minutes of terror thankfully a bit of confusion over the pilot's name was noticed and it was ascertained he did indeed have his PPL - but only just! A short while later the two of them waltz back into the building headsets in hand.The moral of the story? Leave your loved ones at home!
splatt
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Is this like the old flying club poster:
WANTED
Woman. Must be able to cook, sew and navigate. Must have own aeroplane and hangar. Please send picture of aeroplane and hangar.
I'm still looking...
WANTED
Woman. Must be able to cook, sew and navigate. Must have own aeroplane and hangar. Please send picture of aeroplane and hangar.
I'm still looking...
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Wake up gentlemen, it is the other sex that does the deciding. It doesn't matter if you have a microlight or a Gulfstream V, if she doesn't fancy you it doesn't matter a t*ss.
But don't let truth get in the way of a good discussion.
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EGBKFLYER,
I have just such a partner! She actually wants me to do my PPL (despite the fact I do not have any life assurance LOL), she wants us to get a share in or buy a plane, she was even OK with the idea that our first home might have to be an aeroplane hangar, and she also wanted to do her PPL but I think we've now settled on her doing the AOPA flying companion course. I accept payments in the form of cash, land, or cattle
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I have just such a partner! She actually wants me to do my PPL (despite the fact I do not have any life assurance LOL), she wants us to get a share in or buy a plane, she was even OK with the idea that our first home might have to be an aeroplane hangar, and she also wanted to do her PPL but I think we've now settled on her doing the AOPA flying companion course. I accept payments in the form of cash, land, or cattle
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Originally Posted by mazzy1026
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So come on lay-deez, if flying won't do it for you then what will ?
So come on lay-deez, if flying won't do it for you then what will ?
Decent human being, brilliant sense of humour, big heart, generous spirit (& I also don't have a lot of shoes!!), let me run off and play at the flying club whenever I want to... - and most of all he has to love me... totally, absolutely & wholeheartedly.
But I've already got one of them so hard luck!!!
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Originally Posted by Mad Girl
The same sort of things as for people who don't fly!!!
Decent human being, brilliant sense of humour, big heart, generous spirit (& I also don't have a lot of shoes!!), let me run off and play at the flying club whenever I want to... - and most of all he has to love me... totally, absolutely & wholeheartedly.
But I've already got one of them so hard luck!!!
Decent human being, brilliant sense of humour, big heart, generous spirit (& I also don't have a lot of shoes!!), let me run off and play at the flying club whenever I want to... - and most of all he has to love me... totally, absolutely & wholeheartedly.
But I've already got one of them so hard luck!!!
