ga wives
 

I have a question about how many aviation widows there are? how many people have to choose between one and the other?

That said, how many genuine flying couples are there out there?

My wife doesn't hate flying but it does nothing for her. I take my 5 year old son and we have boys' days out flying - unless he's at school in which case I go on my own. She will come for a reason - e.g. visiting someone - but she brings a book to read or goes to sleep in the back :-)

Tim

Give and take
 

My wife has flown with me and with pals and likes it,but her hobbies are golf and playing bridge.
We both really enjoy gardening, so we can do something together.
She fully supports my love of flying,as she did when I was racing cars,and I am glad that she has her own time with her pursuits.

Relationships are about give and take,just be sure you don't take too much:)
Lister

"It's either flying or me!"










"Clear Prop".

My ex-wife said that Dan.:hmm:

I love the way you guys think there has to be a "GA wife"... It's not just restricted to that gender.

My old man bought me a trial lesson... and then lost me every weekend to the airfield... self inflicted - he shouldn't have bought me the lesson. He didn't like being on his own suddenly, so decided to join in.

I've got my PPL(A) and he's got his NPPL(M) - If you can't beat 'em.....join 'em. :D

My Mrs has been up with me a couple of times, but isn't a keen flyer. I don't think she opened her eyes on the first flight, and I still have finger nail scars in my thigh! Second time, so looked out at the lovely snowscape below, but didn't like turning ... not that easy to plan a circuit without turning though! :rolleyes: :E

SS

PS ... She rides horses, but I get virtigo if I get on one as they seem so high up!

SS,

That'd be vertigo from 'ground structures', not enjoying horse. It's very strange, flying around anywhere between 500' and 3000' AGL or more and feeling queasy on something 'tall' on the ground. Or with plenty height should one fall.

Although it's boring in a way, planning on having wifey after finishing training and when being at least bit settled (in aviation job) and having some free time for her. Rather than having FT job and then spending free time at the airfield or far away flying XC. That's bad.

So I'd say (besides flying LH airline legs) that being pro saves bit of time for family.
Still to test my theory myself later on.

It's all my wife's fault...
 

Wife asked....

"how much extra are you putting in to the pension ?"

"£xxx a month"

" well stop and go and learn to fly instead - you've always wanted to - best do it now"

"ok..bye"

Got PPL, have share in RV-4, fly often, love wife ! Smaller pension expected.

Well, my first husband was afraid of flying, so I got another one.

I'm Sure there are alot of single guys at these flying clubs

Stop looking, concentrate on the good looking things with the wings and it all takes care of itself....

Well it did for me. We met as aircraft owners, with sufficiently different flying backgrounds to make conversation interesting, but with no need to impress.

Airfields are theoretically good hunting grounds, I suppose, if the obsession (sorry, dedication) can be absorbed into the relationship. Similar obsessions -or totally separate passions of equal weight - seem to work.

Took Mrs Ginge up from Barton many moons ago.....got as far as Bolton and had to turn back.

Mark (bacon buttie man) had to open the bar early to settle her nerves.

My boyfriend and I met because of flying. We were both student pilots at the time, and now we are both PPLs :) We've been together just over 3 years and have spent many hours flying together.

I doubt that a non-flying boyfriend would put up with me for very long.

There is a well-known Female Chippy flier whose husband is happy to enthuse rather than Pilot

fwjc -

Actually, I put an advert in the Times. Something along the lines of
"Good cook, PPL, enjoys bridge, boating, music. Lives near Oxford"

Nobody noticed or recognised the significant trigraph; the dear man I ended up sharing my life with disclosed his interest in flying during many subsequent phone calls. All he twigged was "lives near Oxford!"

But 3 days after meeting, I was teaching him to fly - we never looked back.

I think a bloke who mentioned "PPL" on the modern version of the above (internet dating) would get very few offers, because most women regard private flying as a very anoracky pursuit :)

I didn't start learning until after I got divorced and had the consent order signed ;) and my girlfriend likes flying but only to go to interesting places; not for the sake of it. She also doesn't like IMC, or turbulence, so I have to work hard in my weather / flight planning :) She's happy to be at FL180 on oxygen though, so that's what we do on long trips, which are invariably VMC on top in sunshine.

...and the women who do so probably get even fewer offers. :}

doesn't seem to get me very far.

Cheers

Whirls

I found most of the women were getting so many offers that most of them didn't have time to read them. And this was some years ago, when that business was a lot less mainstream than it is today.

I think a woman who flies would get loads of offers - though perhaps not from the sort she is looking for :)

But then many men don't like independently minded women.......

Well it wouldn't, would it. Helicopters are very expensive, and most men with 2p are quite protective of their 2p, having lost the previous 1.9p to their ex wife :)

Ain't that the truth :} and if the woman has a sense of humour as well ... :p

Cheers

Whirls