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In article <_D2O5.30469$Pw6.2333001@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
Chris Iriarte writes

>I dono ... I think it sounds like having your priorities in order!
>
>My wife, even though shes flown all her life with her father, still closes
>her eyes when we land. And no, Im not that bad.
>
>Ive gave up a long time ago trying to make her love aviation like I do.
>You either do, or you dont. At least she understands I DO. She knows
>theres no cure for THAT!

Very true. I am not a pilot, although I did fly a little once. My wife
will fly anywhere for a holiday in airliners although it is very
difficult to get her to look out of the window. She hated a flight in a
Warrior with my son as pilot in South Africa especially the tight turn
and sudden turbulence to escape a large black cloud!

However a helicopter ride from Las Vegas over Lake Meade and a landing
in the bottom of the Canyon had her enthralled and she never stopped
looking. She was not the slightest bit nervous! It was worth every $.

A wonder how you guys would react to a woman I met the other day when
she came to give a talk to my club. She is in her late 40s and has four
children. She is either No 1 or No 2 (depending on the day) in womens
para-gliding in the UK and is ranked No 8 in the world. She has seen a
friend killed in front of her, survived a bad crash and also a canopy
collapse over a town followed by a failure of her reserve chute. (She
landed in the only tree around.)

She is fit. 1.5 hours a day in the gym and a kilometre swim every day as
well. She brought all her gear to the talk and could flip the entire 4
ft diameter pack with glider, reserve chute, radio, GPS, camera,
barograph etc. on her back effortlessly! She has flown all over the
world in some pretty worrying looking terrain. Her children think she is
mad (but happy) and her husband will fly para-glider occasionally but
only on perfect days.
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