Is your wife available to train other wifes?

"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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"Mitty" wrote in message
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Can anyone point me to web or print resources with discussion of how to
best utilize two pilots in small airplanes? Who does what, etc. I have
found lots of airline-level material but really nothing that relates to
flying light singles. Or maybe someone who regularly flies with a pilot
spouse? How do you split the workload?

I fly with a nonpilot spouse who shares my workload. She has a copy of
the
checklists, and some items are her responsibility. In preflight, she
checks
switches etc. on her side (all identified on the checklist), verifies
vacuum
at runup, watches me to make sure I don't miss things, issues certain
reminders at various planned times. After takeoff, she calls altitudes at
which I have actions to take (typically 400AGL and 1000 AGL), watches my
heading and altitude for compliance with clearance, calls attention to
deviations, announces approaching clearance altitude. She tunes the
radios
to in-flight assigned frequencies, reminds me to make the call if I got
busy
and forgot. She monitors the various checklists to make sure I don't miss
things (which I never do, of course g). She times the fuel tanks and
tells me when to switch. She gets out approach plates when I call for
them.
etc.

Works well for us. The only problem is that I feel lost when flying
alone.

Stan