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No, my name is Laura. I learned in the AG-5B in 1990 in Indiana. Tis a good airplane!

A beginning one...PT-26.

I learned to fly in a Tiger. It wasn't the Grumman, it was the American General Tiger, which they only built for a couple years, but is the same thing . AG-5B. I did my first solo and got my private pilot certificate in one. Always thought it was a neat plane. :)

Friday the 13th? I soloed a kid, 17 years old, for his first solo on a day with gusty winds, his parents and grandparents who came out against his wishes to watch "just in case", and signed another guy off to fly a warbird after another 2 hours of dual that morning. It was a GOOD day. :)

Some husbands/wives bicker when they fly together. Mine and I love having a second pilot around all the time. We can talk flying as much as we want and enjoy it together, when we go on trips you have two brains and four eyes looking out on each flight, you have someone to bounce weather off of...

We had a Baron 55 for awhile, and the owner was 6' 4" and 250 lbs. It was a tight fit for him, and he ended up selling it because of that. I'm not super big, so him with his seat all the way up and me with my seat all the way forward worked out, but if the CFI is also a big dude, the cockpit...

As a female pilot, might not a successful pick-up line of a guy be something like "Hi. I'm a pilot. Never mind, I'm just a girl. Wanna be picked up?"

Warbirds are boring? If it isn't glass it isn't worthwhile? Well then, that settles it, I am definitely old and proud of it.

I spent 20 years on "steam", and when I first went to a glass cockpit, I thought that I did a better job on steam, using peripheral in my scan to see actual needle movements and staying tighter on it that way...but my first official insurance checkout flight in the plane was in IMC shooting an...

Apparently the captain had turned in his resignation due to hating the fatigue and schedule he'd been living under. https://www.rt.com/news/336514-flydubai-pilots-fatigue-crash/

As others said, if you talk to them, they'll probably waive minimums. We simply request people use common sense. If they're going to take the plane 20 minutes away to the nearby restaurant airport, sit it there all weekend, and fly home two days later, then they just put .8 on the airplane...

Garmin Pilot also has an "auto logbook", but I don't use it, I stick with MyFlightBook, because it too is short on time vs the hobbs, which I could live with because I'm not time building, but the part I can't live with is that it also automatically auto-fills in the last plane you used. So if...

I use a mini mounted on a yoke in an Aerostar, and in everything else I use my maxi, er, Air 2. I like the big one, myself, because I use it as a portable laptop while I'm gone on trips, too, with a keyboard, etc., and I like the size, being able to see an approach plate or other things full...

C-150/152 was the first airplane I ever flew in. He let me fly it for a few minutes, I got hooked, and I decided to be a pilot at that moment. I was 7. I never sat foot in another airplane until I started taking lessons at 19. :)

Maybe as he sees you progressing and learns how it works and how you're the one in charge of your own safety, and how much it means to you, hopefully he'll go from supportive (which is a great start!) to supportive and excited for you and being willing to go along with you or even learn more...

Lots of people out there are fully enamored with aviation, high on it, in love with it, etc., and I've met lots of them. :) I have one buddy in particular who is a lot like me in personality, enjoyment, temperament, interests, etc., and we always really enjoy going flying together. When we're...

Oh puh-leeze. lol

There was a video on Facebook that perfectly went with this thread. It was a lady videotaping her dad or husband as he was telling a story about these two women he ran into who smelled SO bad, that he kept gagging and hacking and almost puking just talking about it. She kept asking him...

One airplane dream I had; I was on a ramp in a twin, taxiing in to shut down, noticed a little kid running and playing off way up there, and a dad standing right there with the kid. I looked around again, stopped, looked inside and was shutting off all the avionics, when I felt a hard thump and...

Hey, Gen X here too, been flying for 26 years, love the dirty old Lycomings, and Continentals, and radials, and have successfully used GA for travel most of my adult life. Getting ready to go to Florida this weekend. Have a little girl now who is so used to using GA for travel that she once...