Enough
Captain Ed
Two years ago I had a (successfully resolved) Full Emergency. The 28 year-old blonde in the right hand seat was as fine an example of a professional airline pilot as I could ever have wished for. The incident took two hours to resolve, during which time she filtered all my suggestions as to the plan of action, gently turned me away from some of the bogus ones, and proposed sensible amendments to the better ones. We needed to do quite a bit of manual flying, which she did beautifully and accurately. In short, her support and skill was the best you can get. I know she would not be offended if I say that her body looked pretty good to me for child-bearing - but I saw no evidence that this in any way precluded her from being a damn fine pilot.
I said earlier in this thread that the issue of "should there be women pilots?" is now surely dead in this industry - well if it isn't, it should be. It is a complete non-starter as a reasoned argument.
Cheers!
B