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Old 23rd Jul 2003, 16:35
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IO540
 
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Back in the old days when clubs were called "discos", or at a party, if a girl asked what you do and you replied "engineer" the response would be far less favourable than if you answered "unemployed".

I find that most women don't mind too much someone being a pilot but perhaps 75% of them are not interested in flying, and those few that are are only interested in going to interested places, not in flying as such.

I expect it comes from the present-day general public perception of GA being very low, due to the old wreckage they see flying in the skies and at their local airfield.

Apparently, a helicopter gets a better response, although due to the cost of a decent chopper (£500k+) I have not been able to verify this first-hand

The few women who learn to fly seem to be in a different class... but very few of them seem to hang around for long.
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