Your Sexy Plane Doesn't Impress Your Spouse

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We pilots love them numbers--better speed, better payload, better capability, 4 negative G aerobatic capability, etc.

It doesn't impress non-flying spouses, in general. Here's what does: comfort, convenience, specific mission capability (and -perhaps- the fact that the husband/wife has the special skill of being a pilot.)

It doesn't mean, though, they don't get all the different ways we get excited about flying. Just know where they stand, and proceed thusly, in that manner.
 
Don't forget looks. Brand sometimes matter, too. Like when their non-flying friends ask "what do you fly?" answering "Cirrus" or "Mooney" sounds more impressive than "Cessna" or "Piper".
 
Yeah, I've been noticing that. We've pretty much decided on a 210, which fits all our 'mission' parameters. However I was telling her how much COOLER we would look in a 195. All the ATTENTION we would get when we flew into an airport. How we would be the ENVY of the piloting community.

She wasn't buying it. :(
 
My wife wants a bigger / faster plane... Bigger being a Citation, and faster being a Star Trek Transporter.... I'll stick with my little hot rod Cherokee 140...
 
Glenn D said:
My wife wants a bigger / faster plane... Bigger being a Citation, and faster being a Star Trek Transporter.... I'll stick with my little hot rod Cherokee 140...
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Yep. There is that.
 
asicer said:
Don't forget looks. Brand sometimes matter, too. Like when their non-flying friends ask "what do you fly?" answering "Cirrus" or "Mooney" sounds more impressive than "Cessna" or "Piper".
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The hilarious part in that is...they have no clue why a cirrus matter more than a Cessna

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I tell people I'm a pilot... invariably "Oh, like a little Cessna"

I'm like, "well I have a Cessna, but I have a tiny experimental for when I want to go fast."
 
WannFly said:
The hilarious part in that is...they have no clue why a cirrus matter more than a Cessna
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Wife: "Oh, like the one Angelina Jolie flies?" When I complain about my humdrum, slow-a$$ 172 she raves how she loves the paint job. It's her way of keeping me from upgrading...
 
More women than capable aircraft
 
spiderweb said:
It doesn't impress non-flying spouses, in general. Here's what does: comfort, convenience, specific mission capability (and -perhaps- the fact that the husband/wife has the special skill of being a pilot.)
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That's why my wife hates the Archer/Warrior/Cherokee family, prefers the Skyhawks, and loves the Cirrus... funny, the only plane she gets excited about are the V22 Ospreys that near our house sometimes... those things are pretty cool and I admit, I get more than a little excited when I see them slowly fly by with their ominous prop beat sounds

Ravioli said:
I tell people I'm a pilot... invariably "Oh, like a little Cessna"
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Do people also ask you if you can fly into "real airports", IE, Charlie or Bravo? I got tired of being asked that. That's one of the reasons I go into PSP instead of Bermuda Dunes, landing there and seeing the airliners come and go give people a "this is the real deal" feeling. Also why Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are fun places, there are enough jets there to really remind you that it's the real thing
 
Hank S said:
So does walking into the big, fancy FBO, grabbing a cookie, drink and car keys with no wait or ID . . . . .
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Why would they want to fly into a 'real airport' if I can pull up at the FBO and someone hands my pax a cold bottle of water when they get out of the plane.
 
asicer said:
Don't forget looks. Brand sometimes matter, too. Like when their non-flying friends ask "what do you fly?" answering "Cirrus" or "Mooney" sounds more impressive than "Cessna" or "Piper".
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This is true.

My wife likes the comfort of the Beech 18, but still thinks a Cirrus looks better.

I think she's nuts.
 
asicer said:
Don't forget looks. Brand sometimes matter, too. Like when their non-flying friends ask "what do you fly?" answering "Cirrus" or "Mooney" sounds more impressive than "Cessna" or "Piper".
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Why would that be? Every non-flying person I know identifies any high wing airplane as a "Cessna" and don't have the faintest idea what any of the others are. I could tell them I own a Cumulonimbus and most of them would believe me.
 
GRG55 said:
Why would that be? Every non-flying person I know identifies any high wing airplane as a "Cessna" and don't have the faintest idea what any of the others are. I could tell them I own a Cumulonimbus and most of them would believe me.
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Yep. Only airplane people have ever heard of my Mooney. Almost everyone has heard of Cessna and/or Piper.

The last person that asked if I had a Cessna gave me the deer in the headlights look when I said "Mooney," so I followed up with "it's made in Texas." Don't want to sound like a cult or anything . . .
 
GRG55 said:
Why would that be? Every non-flying person I know identifies any high wing airplane as a "Cessna" and don't have the faintest idea what any of the others are. I could tell them I own a Cumulonimbus and most of them would believe me.
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I really don't know. Maybe it's a case of "I've never heard of it. Must be exotic." Or maybe Cessnas just look old and/or slow.

When I first got my private and a non-flying person got wind that I was a pilot, one of the first questions they'd ask is "What do you fly?" and when I'd answer "Cessna" the response would always be "Oh, heh." (smirk)

Later when I was flying a Mooney, the response was always "Oh, hm." (puzzled look)

Don't get me wrong, I like Cessnas. But that's how the non-flying people around me react.
 
I consider myself lucky then, all the girls I know think anything that flys is the coolest sh. I have them all fighting over who wants to fly with me first. :cool::stirpot:
 
Rebel Lord said:
I consider myself lucky then, all the girls I know think anything that flys is the coolest sh. I have them all fighting over who wants to fly with me first. :cool::stirpot:
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Have you scheduled that first lesson yet?
 
Tell people Grumman - most say "huh?" - then I explain they also made the Lunar Lander. :eek:
 
asicer said:
Don't forget looks. Brand sometimes matter, too. Like when their non-flying friends ask "what do you fly?" answering "Cirrus" or "Mooney" sounds more impressive than "Cessna" or "Piper".
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Except when the "Cessna " is a Citation or the "Piper" is a M600.
 
I just tell my non-aviation friends I fly a P-28. They automatically assume I'm a fighter pilot.
 
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