Jay, you are lucky. You have a wife that likes to fly, while flying is
very important to you. But if something happened and she could no longer
fly, or was no longer willing to, how would that affect your relationship
with her, and with your Pathfinder?

One of the main advantages of us both being pilots is that it is extremely
unlikely that we will BOTH lose our medicals, and have to quit flying
altogether.

Is there anything that could make Mary unwilling to fly? I don't know, but
it would have to be either medical (inner ear trouble, for example) or
psychological (fear of flying after an incident, for example). Either way,
I would work very hard to help her through it.

Flying alone would take away at least 50% of the fun of flying. The main
advantage of owning and flying an airplane, to me anyway, is the ability to
transport my family to far-away places quickly and in great comfort. If all
I could was bore holes in the sky by myself, I would become quickly bored.

At that stage I would probably sell Atlas, buy a Decathlon, and get into
recreational aerobatic flying.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"