Trip to the simulator for my wife

[chrisk]

For several years I have wanted my wife to learn how to land the plane in case I became incapacitated.    Today we finally went and played in a full motion simulator.  After a little help from an instructor, she was able to get lined up to the runway and on a rough glide slope. 

 

We will have to wait for a nice day and try it for real when I get my plane back from annual.

 

 

[Danb]

Chris  thats cool  your having better luck than me mine won'y do it, she has 2000+ hours watching me fly and catch every mistake I make , keeps all nav aids freq set etc, but does not want to touch the plane, I said what if I just passed out why kill us both..

[bonal]

Dan mine is the same she loves to fly with me but refuses to take the controls. On the plus side she likes to work the Garmin and when my I pad goes on the blink she is able to get it to up link the sat signal. She is my navigator and that's pretty good. I feel sad for guys who's better haves don't share the joy. Maybe I could talk her into some sim time

[Bob]

My wife sleeps in the back seat.  I think I need to get my daughter some formal instruction since she is in the co-pilot seat and tunes the radio and asks me about the gear before I have to lower it.  Thanks for this thread, I will commit to 5 hrs of flight lessons for my daughter this year!

Before I forget, her first yoke time was departing OSH last year.

[Danb]

I doubt it Bonal I have a jay sim and set up pretty good set for a mooney bravo and she doesn't touch it either ..oh well

[ryoder]

My wife won't fly at all with me. She is way too scared.

[bonal]

I recon if my wife would never fly I would get me one of those sporty single seat jobs. As it is a short body is the perfect size for the 2 of us

[Yooper Rocketman]

Anybody remember the article Gordon Baxter wrote many years ago in Flying Magazine about being asked to be a guest speaker at a convention?  When he got done with his presentation, he opened up the floor for a Q&A session.  One young lady raises her hand and he acknowledges her to stand up and ask her question.  She says "My fiance loves aviation.  He talks about it all the time and lives to fly.  I really have no interest in it and wondered if you could give me some advice".  Gordon says "My FIRST wife felt the same way".  I guess audience laughed pretty hard.

[ryoder]

Anybody remember the article Gordon Baxter wrote many years ago in Flying Magazine about being asked to be a guest speaker at a convention?  When he got done with his presentation, he opened up the floor for a Q&A session.  One young lady raises her hand and he acknowledges her to stand up and ask her question.  She says "My fiance loves aviation.  He talks about it all the time and lives to fly.  I really have no interest in it and wondered if you could give me some advice".  Gordon says "My FIRST wife felt the same way".  I guess audience laughed pretty hard.

My cfi had the same story.

[Seth]

The simulator is a good idea to give my wife the confidence she needs on the controls.  There is one at the local flight school.  She is a very confident individual, but does not love flying like I do.  She loves the idea of getting somewhere by plane and likes to fly if we are going to a destination away.  She doesn't want to fly to breakfast, lunch, or any $100 hamburger run.  She also does not like to go up with me when I just want to go fly.  

 

However, she is very timid on the controls and does not enjoy actually flying the airplane.  I've gotten her comfortable checking in on new frequencies and working the radios to an extent, but the actual flying she just doesn't like.  I've had her do some takeoffs, climbs, turns, etc, but she doesn't like it.  I have showed her and she has learned how to turn on the autopilot, how to increase or decrease engine power, and how to steer with the autopilot.  She's learning the GPS to an extent and the ipad.  She mentions that she wants a lesson at some point from an instructor but every time I offer she declines and says sometime soon or another time.  The simulator may be a great bridge.  I'm not going to force anything.

 

Glad it worked for you.

 

-Seth

[bonal]

Its like playing the drums, I always find it funny when someone sits down at my kit and they are timid about hitting a drum or cymbal like they will break it. they need to know to fly the airplane not the other way round.

[Wistarmo]

Why would any man admit in public that he took his wife to a stimulator unless he...oh, never mind

[Marauder]

Why would any man admit in public that he took his wife to a stimulator unless he...oh, never mind

Because today's stimulators are pocket sized and run on batteries

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