Awesome recap! We’ll definitely have to do it again! Thanks for the podcast shout, too! I misspoke at the end… it’s a Lycoming O-320 not 360, but still 150hp. Also, I think I’m wearing the same sweater I wore the last time we flew together! LOL
So I'm curious if it would be helpful to you, Katelyn (sp?), if you got your pilot's license, or if not that, maybe a pinch hitter course. I know some people who got a lot more comfortable in the airplane as soon as they understood how to exercise some degree of control. Which is to say that their anxiety was about feeling out of control. For them training helped. My wife is similar: she sees flying our airplane as a form of transportation. She's different in that she has zero anxiety about it. She's either in one of two states in the airplane: asleep or asking me to find more turbulence. No really: she likes the turbulence. Come to think of it, I wonder if that says something about why she married me.... 🤔 Anyway nice video! And I've been pestering @TheBadgerPilot to make a video about his new airplane. Let's gang up on him.
Funny you mention that because we're actually enrolled in a Pinch Hitter class towards the end of May! Caitlin has also taken ground school and got her sign off to take the written. When she's ready, her plan is to get with a CFI and learn how to land and takeoff the Pacer in case something ever was to happen to me. She has thrown the idea of getting her PPL one day, but for now she's happy to just be a passenger. Haha, that's crazy! How long has she been flying with you? Yes, let's badger him to make one! lol
@@TheFlyingStampede LOL: badgering the badger!!! My wife was my second passenger. My first passenger was a guy on the field who went way out his way to help me when I was a student pilot airplane owner. But she's flown with me many times. We live in NC and every so often we see a nice day and take a 1.5 hour flight to the beach. We went a few weeks ago just so that we could walk on and then take a nap on the beach. We did that and then went home. I've taken her to & from Florida a couple of times. When I don't have to stop for fuel - as is the case with Florida - I easily beat the airlines. She's even flown with me to Wisconsin. She much prefers me flying her there over driving, and even prefers it over commercial aviation. Door to door its about the same time because I stop for fuel in Indiana. But we get to skip that feeling of cattle being herded and other craziness.
