Pandora:
Yes, the X and Y hormones and all that is great.
Lack of common sense is however an occasional problem with some female pilots I have known:
Remember the Cessan Caravan (C-208): When them machines first came out there was a great
PR thing about Fed-Ex buying the lot, and they were big time utility planes made for the over-night freight business, etc.
Wrong: A small firm I worked for bought the first Caravan: A woman pilot who cried on my shoulder a few months earlier, as she had crashed a C-207 attempting a down wind take- off on a short dirt strip with a pay-load onboard, did crash that first Caravan: Killed herself and a couple of pax as the motor stopped after T/O due to fuel starvation.
Sad story and for sure, but one of the reasons this female pilot was employed in the first place was that we had a female chief pilot, and she of course hired one of the sisters.
My ex-wife was also a pilot and she did some stuff that surprised me: She was busy flying the book, as she was thought, not the airplane. (The book is always right, therefore ya shall need no talents or instincts as to what is right or wrong.)
As I stated in the first posting: Not too impressed, yet some are good and motived from a proffesional stand point, and not out there to write history books and prove the gender.
Just don't come out and make belive that all them females are not only just as good, but had to work twice as hard to get there.
Uh, what is my point: Bad apples out there as far as both sexes for sure, yet percentage-wise, perhaps the males are not
looking too bad:
Just remember Ms. Female Eastern scab Value Jet Captain in the Everglades.
She did not impress this male TowerDog, regardless of her Y or X hormones being in the right or wrong place.
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