First non-pilot passenger

You might sign her up for an AOPA Pinch Hitter Course
if you can find an instructor to teach her.

You can get the course materials from AOPA.

This is a start on a pilot license and will give her a feeling
of control if something untoward happens.

The full course is 4 hours flying and 4 hours ground
during which time she learns to tune the radios, call for
help from Flight Service/ATC, keep the plane right
side up, read the maps and hold a heading and make
an approach and a landing.

When AOPA was having their clinics, it was a very
popular course among wives and the comments I received
was that it made them better flying companions.

Fred Quarles,
"Chris Ehlbeck" wrote in message
.. .
My wife is the opposite. She'd much rather fly in a high wing than a low.
She sat in an Archer once, and although she liked the roomier cockpit she
didn't like the wing being in the way of looking down at the ground. But,
she wasn't comfortable with the size of a C152 cockpit either, but said
she'd give it try.
--
Chris Ehlbeck, PPASEL
"It's a license to learn."

"Louis L. Perley III" wrote in message
...
My wife will not fly with me,
but I'm still hopeful that that day will be sooner rather than
later.

This is so sad, but not uncommon. Care to elaborate on her reasons?

My wife doesn't like the idea that she cannot just get out if she
feels
uncomfortable, ie. in a car, you just pull over to the side of the road
and
get out, one cannot do this in a plane. I've often thought that the only
way
to get over this fear/issue is to have her learn to fly a plane, this
way
she'd know exactly what is going on. She's never sat inside my C152 (too
small) and I don't thing she's that fond of a high-wing, since you're
hanging below the wing. She's been inside an Aztec and a Beech Travelair
and
those she felt a bit better in, but she never actually flew. I think
I'll
need a low-wing before she'll go up with me. I think a bit of
claustrophobia
as well, so it would need lots of windows, or at least large ones. She's
said that the Trinidad looked like a nice airplane (because of the large
windows) but that's a bit out of the price range right now.