Married Couples and CRM (followon to Courious Crash)

On Dec 21, 7:41 am, Ron Natalie wrote:
We won't go into the CRM required during 6 hour legs in
Australia.

Was this CRM training a part of the Australia flying tour? We would
not mind taking a CRM training class at all. At one time, Rick thought
that we should have a more formal checklist procedure with the copilot
called out each step and the PIC replied 'checked'. We went through it
once. I did not like it a bit because it took too long to read every
item outloud. So we went back to our usual practice with the PIC went
through the checklist. The copilot observed silently and spoke up only
when it was absolutely necessary.

I don't recall reading a long report about your Australia trip. Did
I miss it? If I am not mistaken, all flying tours in Australia were
discontinued post 9/11 due to red tape hassles. I had checked into the
NewZealand and Africa self-flying trips and they all sounded quite
interesting. I had tried to convince Rick to take one of these trip
next year for our wedding anniversary but he was not ready for such a
big trip. We may just take few weeks off flying coast-to-coast camping
in little airports etc.. next spring. Alaska may be next on the plan
before NewZealand or Africa.

Hai Longworth