You'll find that your wife and any passenger will be comforted by your
willingness to make such decisions. You might be surprised by how much
they are comforted - even those passengers that are itchy to go anyway.


Re inexperienced passengers. Here's a trick that has worked for me numerous
times in a Cessna 140. Noticing passenger is strangely quiet and (in spite of
your best efforst) turning bright green, trim up for good hands off flying,
take your hands off the wheel and tell passenger "OK, you fly" "Who? ME?? I
can't fly! Jeeze!" Passenger grabs wheel in a deathgrip -- almost instantly
the green goes and is replaced by lovely pink.

Works better than cleaning up afterwards.

Quent