Gosh, you must come to the place where I did my PPL. While I cannot vouch for whether anyone talks to them, girl students are much fought over and quite a few end up pregnant
I suppose that being in a confined space (a C152 is as confined as I'd like to be) with a bloke in a smart uniform who will earn way more than the average teenager when he manages to unfreeze his fATPL has its attractions....
I did see the smiley, and I'm not sure how serious you are. And I certainly don't want to turn this rather interesting thread into another Women Pilots thread. But what you're talking about is to a certain extent the other side of the same coin. Your female student would often like to be treated just like everyone else - not ignored or assumed to be a pilot's non-flying other half, but not treated as a special rare gem either. Your female PPL would love to be able to ask someone to fly with her without it being taken...as meaning anything above and beyond going flying together. I know a fair number of women who've found someone to fly with, then realised it wasn't going to work either because the guy thought he should do all the flight planning and organising (and criticising!), or because he figured the closeness of a C152 should be continued elsewhere..... Flying's complicated enough when you're new without trying to sort all that out too...unless it happens to be what you want of course.
Points all taken, and all probably true, about schools' attitudes. But I still think improving the social "scene" has a lot to do with individuals. Look at the popularity of PPRuNe, the Flyer Forums, etc. What do we do? Chat. And give and get given advice. And occasionally, just occasionally, meet ang go flying.
If I think about flying to another airfield - and I can do it because of small group, cheap flying, good availability, enough experience - I sometimes decide not to bother because I know I'll arrive, talk to no-one, fly there, pay my landing fee, talk to no-one, have coffee, leave. It's fun, but at £100+ per hour! I don't think so. And if I didn't have cheaper access and usually someone to fly with, I probably wouldn't bother. And I'm probably as addicted to flying as...most of us here. And I suspect my experience is multiplied by.....a large proportion of those who gave up recently.
