Thanks for your story Peter. What I'm finding is that come a nice Saturday,
I have a number of things that "need" to be done as well as some "needed"
quality time with my son. Flying usually loses out. However, I do get out
from time to time to polish up my IFR procedures.

It's hard. Especially when my 1 1/2 year old walks around the house looking
for me after I've gone to work. It makes it hard to have him go through that
when I fly when he can't understand why I'm not there. I can't wait until he
can wear his own headphones!

Marco

"Peter Weaver" wrote in message
...
Marco Leon wrote:
Hi all. I've noticed a considerable decrease in flight hours
since my
son was born a little over a year ago. My wife is also 5
months
pregnant with another so flying time may suffer further
decline. I'm
wondering...what are some of your experiences during the
life-changing event of a new family and flying? Did you
start flying
more often after the kids hit a certain age? What did you do
to find
more time?
...

My daughter was born June 29th, since then every time the
weather looked good enough to go flying I was just too tired
to go. A week ago Sunday the weather was great, I did not feel
exhausted for the first time in five months and the flying
club had a Cherokee available. I booked it and told my wife
that I would just do circuits because I have not gone for a
while. When I got to the airport the instructors thought it
would be good to have one of them along for a few circuits,
since I have not flown with an instructor for the last six or
seven years I thought it was a good idea too. So we did one
touch and go, one soft field landing and a practice emergency
landing, after that I did four more circuits on my own. The
whole thing felt great. It was great being in the air again,
and it was great knowing that when I did not feel safe enough
to fly for the last five months I did not have to. Now I'm
hoping to get up in the air at least once every two months and
take my daughter up after he second birthday (my wife is
worried about putting headphones on her before then).

--
Peter Weaver
Weaver Consulting Services Inc.
Canadian VAR for CHARON-VAX
www.weaverconsulting.ca





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