Beware of A.I.D.S.
 

Back in the day when importing kits of the wonderful Avid Flyer/Speedwing I would warn potential purchasers of the dreaded AIDS - Aeroplane Induced Divorce Syndrome. And lo, it happened to me. Long hours building the thing and general neglect of my husbandly duties (well, some of them) were certainly part of the problem.

The upshot was me transferring (the then) G-MOTT into the ownership of one Justin (son) to prevent the wifeship from getting her hands on it.

I wonder if there was ever any younger aircraft owner owner on the CAA register? Justin was about six at the time.

GINFO Registration History | Aircraft Register | Safety Regulation

Have you considered setting up a feedback forum where your wife can anonymously tell you what she thinks about your flying, and then you can (equally anonymously) respond with your thoughts on the merits of purchasing over-priced Swedish kitchen chipboard?

Obviously, sharing the results with the rest of us?

It won't help your marriage one iota, but should keep the rest of us amused and distract everybody from the price of avgas.

And the winner of "Best post in thread" is...........:D

Blimey - some of you have got a weird attitude towards your wives and your flying passion.

It's simple, you just need to be consistent with your behaviour when you have/haven't been flying. If you haven't flown for a week or two you need to perfect the miserable bastard approach, being grumpy and always moaning about never being able to fly.

When you do fly, you need to come home in the very best of moods, offering your wife the chance to have some time to herself, offer to take her out for dinner and look after the kids for an hour or two whilst suggesting she goes out and has some time to herself.

She will soon see a trend that she will want to exploit.

I have perfected this over 15 years of marriage and my wife positively forces me out of the door to go flying knowing what the result will be.

t's not unlike training a dog really

There are just soo many wrong answers to that:\

The mods would ban me for life:cool:

It's all very simple. After she's cooked you a delightful meal you must never forget to give her a hug, a kiss and then whisper in her ear those three magic little words....
"I'm going flying".
:ok:

How this blazing row came about has been left a bit sketchy, by the OP. I wonder for example:

• Was your flight planned long before and did you NOTAM your wife about it?
• Vice versa, had she issued well in advance a temporary restriction to procure IKEA parts?
• Would that have been your first flight in months, or have you been flying Friday, Saturday and Sunday?
• etc...

As many have already said, it's all about (sensible) compromise, and I definitely think that defusing is better than fire-fighting.

...and some of you wonder why there aren't more women in GA. :}

Cheers

Whirls

One could surmise that a lot of male pilots are self centred characters. But it also means they are independent individuals.

In this modern age, why aren't there more women who are independent individuals? I know for sure there are plenty of those types around, so why don't they get into flying?

I work next to the A23 and every few seconds I see a £50k car driven by some executive-type female. And they seem just as aggressive in their driving style as the men.

They mainly prefer horses to aeroplanes...

That's very very true where I live (Sussex; the land of horse-boxes towed by 7mpg 4x4s) but I don't think most of those are the "motivated" exec types. Most of the ones I see here are women who never had a real job and who married some bloke (any bloke, apparently) who would deliver the horse, the horse trailer, the 4x4, and a nice country pad. When my boys were little I would go to various childrens' parties at these places and the parents rarely acknowledged each other. I thought it was very sad - for their kids who will PROB75 end up with one parent. There are still many marriages today where there is a strong dependence element. What the bloke gets out of it is a mystery, as he is working his ba11s off in some exec job to bring in the 100k+ needed to prop up that whole show. He certainly won't be flying.

IKEA
 

She should cost more, there is more of her to love.

Actually I got divorced once and realised that I could have had a seriously high class hooker every weekend for the rest of my life and still saved a few quid.

She would have pretended she liked me.

She would never have moaned about me going flying.

I could have eaten cheaply in most restaurants

and I would never need to feign interest in any online shopping.

Just four benefits that spring to mind.

So what did I do, I got married again!

Not got a clue have they Whirlygig ;)

so what changed :}

I've often wondered why there aren't more women in flying, it's not physically demanding and you don't have to reverse.