I have trained a good few women on both UAS and Albert. As Wholi knows, my greatest success is a lady who I told would never fly as long as she possessed the proverbial hole in her a*se! She is now a respected pilot in the RAF, and takes great delight in reminding me of my (as she sees it) poor judgement at every opportunity! I continue to claim that it was my way of motivating her to greater efforts, of course.
I've seen good and bad students of both sexes and, notwithstanding BEag's point, I've seen plenty of women who will accept the 'OK' verdict and then proceed to drink the bar dry with the boys - or maybe that was just my influence? Most of those women I know who now fly with the RAF thoroughly enjoy the experience. There are neanderthals who do their best to spoil things, but I would expect any good pilot to be able to deal with idiots who disparage their abilities.
Gunray, I'd say give it a go. And when you've gotten fast jets out of your system, come and talk to us at Virgin!
