On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:20:11 -0600, Rachel
wrote:

I'm pretty picky about who I fly with, but I guess that's not much of a
problem if they're just looking for traffic, right?

I disagree. If you are picky, stay picky for this as well. If
something goes wrong, you may need to rely on the safety pilot for
more than just making sure you're legal according to regs. Different
emergencies will require different amounts of team work, and even just
looking for traffic requires good judgement. I had a safety pilot get
us way too close for comfort once. I ended up seeing the plane out
the corner of my foggles!

Be patient, I'm sure you'll find someone to fly with in time, just
start talking to people and see where it goes.

HTH.
z