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I've been a pilot for 12 years now. I've been married (this time) for 10.
Three years ago, the DE who passed me on my private and instrument tickets died in a stupid accident. My wife had met him a few times at flying club dinners and around the airport. A few weeks ago, a club member who she'd also met several times died in his float plane, a plane that I'd flown in a few weeks before that. He died with his best friend, a former club member who I knew a bit but whom my wife didn't. Now that two people she's met have died flying in a relatively short period of time, she's getting less and less secure about my own flying. Every time I head out to the airport, she gives me the talk. "Be careful. Don't die. If you have the slightest doubt, come back." Etc. And so on. I don't think she'll tell me to stop, because she knows I was a pilot before we married. But what can I do to reassure her? The pilot community is pretty small, and losing three people associated with our little club is pretty scary for her. At one time, I thought when the kids were finished college I'd finally have enough money to buy a share in a float plane and we could have some adventures together. Now I'm not even sure she'd come flying in a club plane. -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ ....I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter. -- Nick Petreley |
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