Robert Easton wrote:

My wife doesn't like night flying either and now that I'm instrument
rated, she
has no desire to go into the clouds.

I finally had my wife in clouds for a nontrivial amount of time a couple of
months ago. I wasn't cotton ball (which would just be dull for her, I'd
expect), but in-and-out near the tops. I could have gone above, and I also
knew that there was enough room below the ceiling for VFR if necessary.

But she liked it. It was as beautiful to her as it has always been to me.

It was also interesting explaining the instrument scan to her, almost
serving as a mini-lesson for myself.

She's pretty comfortable at this point, though. She's even taken a few
lessons herself, and had no problem using a camera as I did steep turns
over our house.

- Andrew