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Old 18th Nov 2001, 15:51
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Whirlybird

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Jepp,

If you can ever get yourself to a meeting of the BWPA (British Women Pilots Association) you'll find we're a fairly normal cross section of people; some of us speak proper like, and some of us wot got sorta dragged up in Sarff London... Well, you get my drift. I suspect you just haven't met that many women pilots. Not your fault; I haven't either, since there aren't that many of us - according to the CAA 6% of PPLs and 2% of commercial pilots are female. So the real question is - why, when women have been flying for 90 years (first one got her PPL in 1910), is this the case?
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