Well-Meaning spouses don't understand?

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My wife will fly with me. She's not excited nor afraid of little planes. She appreciates the utility, and that's 'bout that. In the most recent issue of Flying Mag, there was a sexy centerfold of the new High Sierra Citation Mustang. I pulled that out and put it on my desk. Every AOPA member has a chance to win the annual airplane they're working on, and she knows that. But she asked me, is that the airplane this year? Could you win that? Bless her heart, I wish I could!
 
Coolest AOPA sweeps plane recently was that tricked out Cherokee Six. I'd feel good about winning that, because it's super functional and wouldn't bankrupt me immediately upon winning it.
 
I think I would be happy with whatever I won. You always have the option to sell it and get what you really want if it doesn't fit the budget.
 
spiderweb said:
My wife will fly with me. She's not excited nor afraid of little planes. She appreciates the utility, and that's 'bout that. In the most recent issue of Flying Mag, there was a sexy centerfold of the new High Sierra Citation Mustang. I pulled that out and put it on my desk. Every AOPA member has a chance to win the annual airplane they're working on, and she knows that. But she asked me, is that the airplane this year? Could you win that? Bless her heart, I wish I could!
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So what is it she doesn't understand, that you could win it, or that you probably won't?:dunno:
 
My standing offer to my wife is that I'll buy her what ever plane she wants if she just pays for fuel, insurance, and maintenence.
 
Maxmosbey said:
So what is it she doesn't understand, that you could win it, or that you probably won't?:dunno:
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She doesn't understand that I can't win a jet. Or really, she doesn't understand jet-lust. :rolleyes2:
 
flyingcheesehead said:
No way - The coolest was the Win-a-Twin! :yes:

(High wing! Low wing! High wing! Low wing! ;))
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That was definitely my favorite so far.

Now, a Grumman Goose?? That would vault to #1. Hello, AOPA??!!!
 
flyersfan31 said:
That was definitely my favorite so far.

Now, a Grumman Goose?? That would vault to #1. Hello, AOPA??!!!
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...Which takes us back to the OP's comment about insuring the jet.
That Goose would cost you between $12-15K per annum in insurance. Not to mention the fuel (80 gph) and oil costs. Plus a hangar for the beast.
Assuming 100 hours per year, you would have won yourself a $55,000 per year Goose flying habit.
Then you'd need an annual.
First, though, you'd have to break out a couple grand just to find and employ a multiengine sea instructor.
I'll still take the Cherokee Six, thank you.
 
They will understand the first time they're groped by the TSA flying commercial.
 
wsuffa said:
They will understand the first time they're groped by the TSA flying commercial.
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I'm looking forward to it. I think that after having to pass through security no less than five times for our Xmas season travel, with an infant no less, my FO will be enthused about looking for our next airplane which will be some version of an IFR four or six seater for interstate travel, post Alaska.

At least that is my plan :)
 
Mrs. Steingar already wants me to go the IR route. Getting publicly groped might increase her resolve to the point of donating some cash to the effort.
 
steingar said:
Mrs. Steingar already wants me to go the IR route. Getting publicly groped might increase her resolve to the point of donating some cash to the effort.
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But wouldn't she have to convince the guy that posted the following as well as donating cash? ;) ;)

steingar said:
We'd all be safer, better pilots, and no doubt better human beings if we all flew IFR. Unfortunately, we don't all have the money, time, aircraft, cajones, strength with the Force, or whatever to be IFR pilots. So once again, you slick professional IFR types should have it in your mind that when you break out of your perfect pattern, especially at an uncontrolled field, there could be some of us amateurish pokey VFR types in the way. Hey, not me, but someone. And be very afraid, because I think there are a lot more of us yutsick sunny-day types than you cloudbusters. And no, I'm not going to go study IFR procedures to make you safer. They won't make me any safer because I can (for the time being) see where I'm going.
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And yes, I'm just kiddin' ya - I think it'd be great if you got your IR, so you could get more use out of your airplane, and make more PoA fly-ins! :yes:
 
steingar said:
Mrs. Steingar already wants me to go the IR route. Getting publicly groped might increase her resolve to the point of donating some cash to the effort.
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Absolutely. After that recent viral video, my mother has "reserved" a few flights with me for this very reason.

And to clarify to everyone: my wife ALREADY appreciates the utility of private flying--she just isn't madly in love with it, as we are. (I know, I know--I'm very, very lucky!)
 
flyingcheesehead said:
But wouldn't she have to convince the guy that posted the following as well as donating cash? ;) ;)...

And yes, I'm just kiddin' ya - I think it'd be great if you got your IR, so you could get more use out of your airplane, and make more PoA fly-ins! :yes:
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I stand by what I wrote. If I go the IR route, I will be well aware that when I approach uncontrolled fields there may be aircraft in the pattern unaware of my intentions, and I won't crab about it on an internet forum. And I will make it to more POA events, since it will be a lot easier to avoid being rained out, which happened to every aviation event I tried to attend this year.
 
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I thought about getting my instrument rating at one time... Even got a few hours of instruction... For the most part though, around here, when the weather is IFR, it's weather that I don't want to be flying in anyway. When you have 737s diverting hundreds of miles to get around level 5 thunderstorms, do you really want to be flying one of our spam cans in it? Other areas of the country might be different, of course...
 
CollinLeon said:
I thought about getting my instrument rating at one time... Even got a few hours of instruction... For the most part though, around here, when the weather is IFR, it's weather that I don't want to be flying in anyway. When you have 737s diverting hundreds of miles to get around level 5 thunderstorms, do you really want to be flying one of our spam cans in it? Other areas of the country might be different, of course...
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Really? I found the IR quite useful in Texas.
 
spiderweb said:
Really? I found the IR quite useful in Texas.
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Apparently your weather experiences are different than mine. I haven't found any weather that I wanted to fly in that I couldn't scud run in...

Of course the scary thing is that those times where the level 5s are coming in and the airlines are going hundreds of miles out of their way to avoid them, it's often technically VFR conditions. Yeah, it's 30G45 with wind sheer and varying wind directions and raining 2 inches an hour in certain places, but the ceiling is 3500 ft and as long as you stay out of the heavy rain, it's VFR...

Nawh, I don't think so... I'll just stay on the ground and break out a 6-pack... I'm too old to be bold anymore...
 
I've lived in Dallas for 20 years and commuted by plane from KC for 4 years prior to the move. I don't fly in convective either, but can testify under oath that many trips in all seasons of the year were/are possible only with IFR capability.

CollinLeon said:
I thought about getting my instrument rating at one time... Even got a few hours of instruction... For the most part though, around here, when the weather is IFR, it's weather that I don't want to be flying in anyway. When you have 737s diverting hundreds of miles to get around level 5 thunderstorms, do you really want to be flying one of our spam cans in it? Other areas of the country might be different, of course...
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steingar said:
Mrs. Steingar already wants me to go the IR route. Getting publicly groped might increase her resolve to the point of donating some cash to the effort.
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About five years ago here there was a little old lady (old enough to be Mrs. Steingar's MOM) who was getting wanded and was asked to turn her waist band down. She beat the screener mercilessly (with an umbrella!) as she felt under attack. She was briefly incarcerated until the District Attorney in Chicago determined there wasn't a jury downstate who would convict this lady.
 
Oh, lord, I'd have paid good money to see that.
 
Perhaps the thought process for getting the IR should not be to GO into WX (Texas or otherwise) but to get OUT of WX if needed without killing yourself, or not cancel or divert a flight in progress due to inadvertant WX issues. As well, you'd be amazed how much your skills will improve. Just my 2cents.
 
wabower said:
I've lived in Dallas for 20 years and commuted by plane from KC for 4 years prior to the move. I don't fly in convective either, but can testify under oath that many trips in all seasons of the year were/are legal only with IFR capability.
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FTFY!
 
gprellwitz said:
FTFY!
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In the last 16 years that I've been flying, I've only had one instance that an instrument rating would have allowed me to complete a flight that I had started. I was on my way up to Dallas from Houston one evening. A line of level 5s stretched across Texas and I figured I could just keep heading west to get around them. Eventually, I got to a bit south of San Antonio and ended up landing at some dark little strip in the middle of nowhere. They had a hotel right by the airport, so I stayed there for the night. The next morning, I tried to make it to Dallas. I stopped in Waco for fuel and then headed off. There was a layer above me, but it was high enough not to be an issue. As I got within about 100 miles of TKI, I noticed a layer developing below me. There was enough openings in the clouds that I figured that I could find a hole once I got to TKI and drop down through it. Unfortunately, as I got closer and closer, less openings appeared and eventually, I was stuck between two solid layers. Flight Watch said that no one was reporting any openings anywhere around and the ceilings were down to around 500 ft AGL. I looked around, couldn't see any openings, so I turned around and flew back to Houston. I probably could have flown back a hundred miles or so, dropped down, and scud run the last hundred miles to TKI, but it was only a weekend trip and I figured that I had already wasted enough time trying to get there. Looking at the current approach plates for TKI, it appears that there is an ILS that would get me down as long as the ceilings were above 200 ft.
 
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