Yeesss ... I think I'm getting the drift ... :ok:


JD
;)

I love flying.

My husband does not.

Never any problems - we have some interests the same and some different.

I've seen all sorts of single women pair up with someone through flying. But as has been said, they haven't been VERY independent minded, 'forceful' women.

1960's
Yes, I just love green vegetables
Yes, I just love quiet weekends at home.
No, It doesn't matter if the house isn't renovated by Monday.
No, I don't like eating out much,
Yes I'd love to come flying with you.

2000's
I never liked vegetables and I'm not going to make them if the kids won't eat them.
I just want to go away for this (another) weekend, that's not asking much is it?
You've done nothing for, oh twenty minutes, this house will never be finished, will it?
We haven't been out for three days so I've booked. . . . . .
What? Go up in that thing? You must be joking. Off you run dear, your life insurance is up to date isn't it?

The above is really accurate.

People expect so much more out of relationships today. Perfection, in many cases.

No, women expect more now out of a relationship; men expect what they've always expected.

Make of that what you will :}

Cheers

Whirls

IO540,
I don't follow your train of thought; care to explain?

No, men expect more as well. There has been an increasing trend to many more men thinking they deserve a 'trophy wife' and ditching their partner of say 20 yearsand the mother of their children in favour of a much younger model, and often a second family.

There is also an increasing number of men going to places like the Phillipines for an attractive young wife who will be the sort of wife British women were 50 or more years ago. Women who will put them first all the time, cook, clean, massage their egos and so on. Men who complain that western women treat them like equals not gods. Insecure and inadequte men in other words.

Didn't there used to be a forum here, years ago, where people discussed their marriage / relationship issues? I think the postings are still there, in that one can find it by looking at somebody's very old posts, but one cannot get to it from the main forum list.

I don't agree that men have not changed - at least among the higher earning group; a typical 40+ bloke has already got one divorce under his belt and is not a complete mug. We have a lot more couples today where both have their own careers and interests. Hopefully their interests intersect somewhere...

Men who import wives from those places are in for a mega shock. These women are initially submissive but the moment they have their passport etc they become very assertive - just as they naturally are in their native countries, where they run the entire household, finance and all, while their husbands sit around in cafes, pretending to be macho with "cor, give 'er one" at every bird walking past :)

Is there a need for a uk aviation dating site? I'm seriously considering developing one. :hmm:

I don't think so.

Years ago, I looked at internet dating as a business.

On the face of it, it is easy money. IT-wise it is trivial. You could run the whole op from a spare bedroom with a 2mbit DSL line (£5k/year these days??) and a half decent PC/server. In fact, not even that; you would get it hosted for relative peanuts. The database structure is easy. The site design takes a bit of work (unless you want to be clever) but standard stuff nowadays.

If you can get say 100k blokes (most UK sites are a lot bigger than that today) to pay £20 each for a year's membership, you have £2M/year coming in. From that you subtract advertising...

The huge problem is getting women to join up, and without loads of female profiles to browse (for free) few men will pay to join so they send them messages.

I very strongly suspect that when the business started in the UK ~ 10 years ago, most of the then sites started by generating thousands of fictitious female profiles, age 25-35, slim, looking for a "casual" relationship. Most women don't put up a picture anyway, so this would work (it was pretty obvious in some sites), and as you get going you can clear out the fake ones.

Now (not having looked at it for 6 years - honest ;) ) it is very mainstream and dominated by big names who spend bundles on advertising in conventional media, sponsorships, you name it. While I think one could still do a good scam and walk off with a million or so, enough to buy a used TBM700, I doubt one could enter the market now.

The GA market would be a very thin place to fish, IMHO. Many years ago, well pre-internet, a business called Dateline tried the "anorak desperate men" approach by advertising in motorcycle and computer mags. I spoke to somebody there about it... sure they got loads of blokes to sign up but the women complained about the poor quality of the dates they were getting :) As the joke goes...

A pilot goes on a date. Halfway through he says "now, enough talking about planes; let's talk about ME".

My missus gets more hours than me.:rolleyes:

My wife is a (lapsed) PPL. We fly together to all places, she likes to fly for a purpos while I enjoy an hour in the air.

No problem ...

... provided of course I continued to get the free helicopter rides after marriage.

I think the site Love Air is still around. Though it's anything to do with aviation, not just GA.