'totty pilots'???? 'equally as competant as any bloke driver'???? (Why mention it, we've been discussing attitudes not competance)
That's a patronising attitude, Jetscream.
I've never, ever had a bad instructor - whether hours building, career instructor, airline pilot. As it happens the instructors were men. They treated me as a sensible person who just wanted to learn to fly.
Most men I meet in flying treat me as a person who flies. That's all I ask.
Albinoni just wants someone to fly with. There aren't many women PPLs around and as Whirly says, as she's inexperienced she perhaps prefers to fly with a woman.
One flying school I knew tried to ensure the women students met up - perhaps so they could find 'flying buddies'. After the innuendo from some posters I can understand why! I've never thought twice about flying with 'sensible' men, but I can see that some grubby minded people will have thought the worst.
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