First Flight Lesson

SixPapaCharlie

SixPapaCharlie

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Well not mine...

I keep telling my wife one day I am going to die and given how often I am in the plane, it will probably be in the sky so she needs to get some flying lessons for her own good.

Got her a logbook and paid for a lesson.

She went up today and she loved it.
Don't know if she will go for her PPL but I know today is the first time she mentioned it.
Up until now it has just been "I need to learn how to land in an emergency."

After this flight she was sounding a little more goal oriented :)

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If she gets a license, she'll want to log all your hours!
 
You must really love hearing her tell you how you do everything wrong.
 
nicely done

my wife also took a 1 hour lesson, that was 15 years ago. She says that she then realized that if she learned how to drive, she might be expected to share the chores and not be able to read or sleep. So she quit.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Well not mine...

I keep telling my wife day I am going to die and given how often I am in the plane, it will probably be in the sky so she needs to get some flying lessons for her own good.
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That doesn't sound good. Should this be posted in medical topics?
 
Brad Z said:
That doesn't sound good. Should this be posted in medical topics?
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No. I'm kidding. I'm young ish and healthy.
Ive always just stated that in the unlikely event of my demise behind the yoke, she needs to know how to bring it down safely
 
Several "Pinchhitter" classes around. I got my regular passenger to take one, a four hour class given at the FAA Seminars at the old Danial Webster college in Nashua. In her case, that was about all she wanted to know.
It's good if your wife wants to get a license. Expensive, but good. You might then be able to convince her a bigger plane would be good to have.
 
Once she has the basics have her fly from the right seat, assuming that you will always be in the left. It's "different".
 
Get her certified,then get his and her airplanes.
 
I think her smile in the last picture says it all! It's nice to come onto the forum and read something happy every now and then.....
 
It was a lot of fun listening to her.
Scattered layer at 1500 and broken at 7500.

They took off and disappeared above the first layer and practiced level turns, climbing turns, straight n level. Also she got to takeoff (CFI on the rudder pedals). That was where she said "I really got a rush pulling the plane off the ground"

She flew until 1/4 mi final.

She has been smiling all day.
 
ebykowsky said:
If she gets a license, she'll want to log all your hours!
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If she gets her license, I get a nap. She can have the hours.

This her EVERYTIME we go anywhere.

My Turn :)


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Drop a wing every now and then — that'll learn her! :D

I'm not brave enough to do that to my sleeping wife . . . She stays awake on short flights, but after an hour or so starts getting sleepy, faster if we're in the clouds.
 

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So you won't let her learn in your airplane? :lol:
 
There are some people(not only wives, BTW) who are just not destined to operate an aircraft. My wife is in that category. I asked her to keep it straight and level for a bit when I was digging in my bag for something, and when I looked back up, we were in a 30deg descending turn to the right. My wife looked at me with that 'oh spit. This is not a good thing' look.
 
I'm merely a pre-solo student pilot with 16 hours and already my g/f has talked to me about scheduling a flight with my CFI, just to get a better idea about what it is that I'm doing up there.
 
My wife would probably end up being a better pilot than me. Can't allow that. That's why I don't take her golfing :yes:
 
Johann said:
So you won't let her learn in your airplane? :lol:
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Someone will chime in and disagree but I am of the opinion that our TB9 is more difficult to control than that 172. It doesn't hold straight and level all that well. I can trim and let go of the yoke in the 172 and take a nap.

There is more work to do, it is more squirly, (That wide body on those narrow wings makes flying a little more difficult.)

So I am having her do 5-10 hours in the 172 just to get a feel for being in control of a plane and then I am going to have her learn to land the TB.

She said last night she believes she will have her PPL within 2 years. :)
 
pikespeakmtnman said:
I'm merely a pre-solo student pilot with 16 hours and already my g/f has talked to me about scheduling a flight with my CFI, just to get a better idea about what it is that I'm doing up there.
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It is great to have a partner that can (and will) take the controls.
I am lucky enough to have eaten dinner twice in the plane while she flies the magenta line.

On a related note: Taco Bueno salsa containers will shower you with salsa when you open them at altitude.
 
Does she know you're posting pictures of her asleep in the airplane? My wife would kick my butt for that.

BTW, TB9s make decent trainers. If you start her on it she won't know the difference.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
If she gets her license, I get a nap. She can have the hours.

This her EVERYTIME we go anywhere.

My Turn :)
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On the way back from MI to OH a couple weeks ago my son fell asleep over Lake Erie. As I turned base he leaned over on my arm (!!!). Being the cautious pilot I am, I determined that trying to land with him on my lap was a bad idea, so I woke him up on final....
 
Brad Z said:
Does she know you're posting pictures of her asleep in the airplane? My wife would kick my butt for that.

BTW, TB9s make decent trainers. If you start her on it she won't know the difference.
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HAHA yes. She was lurking this morning. I heard her laughing and I looked over and she had this thread up.
 
Hello everyone! Not only did Bryan get me a flight lesson, but when I checked my email today, apparently he had signed me up for this forum too. :)

My first lesson went really well! B's let me fly a lot when we go up, so I don't think I was as nervous as I would have been. I also tagged along on several of his training flights with this CFI, so I was familiar with the plane and the instructor.

He didn't mention the one scary thing that happened though: When I got in the plane, I couldn't get the seat to lock. I'm short (5'2"), so I need that seat all the way up to reach the rudder pedals. The CFI came over and got the seat locked for me after a couple tries. Or so we thought.

On take off, he was working the rudders and I had the yoke. When he told me to pull up, I did. And then my seat slid all the way back. Scared the crap out of me, but thankfully, I didn't yank the yoke, and I was able to adjust the seat and get it locked for real.

Other than that, though, the flight went great. Beautiful day to fly. I will definitely take more lessons. As Bryan said, we want me to be able to know enough to get us down and not panic in an emergency situation. After that point, we'll see if I want to go through the time and expense of the PPL. If (he'll say when) B gets his own plane, I figure I will end up getting it, since he'll have us airborne all the time then.

Oh, and as for the sleeping pictures, they aren't my best, but he likes to post those on FB too, so it's not like they haven't already made their rounds. I guess that's what I get for dozing off. It's Bryan's fault for being such a good pilot and making the flights so smooth and calming . . . :sleep:
 
Welcome! Sounds like you survived the initiation rites ... You'll be a full-fledged pilot in no time!
 
Welcome aboard Eren!

Make him pay for lessons in the TB9. Either that or roll inverted the first time you fly the TB9, tell him "I was trained in a high wing" :)
 
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Cool! We love him here - he has all the best porn links, and is always willing to share. :lol:
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Yup...
Sorry doc that I've only been sharing straight porn so far.
I'll get to you eventually.
 
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