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Old 16th Aug 2003, 11:51
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Samuel
 
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Serious stuff this, both saddening and incredible at the same time. So let me get this right; is it true that all the experience of teaching people to fly professionally is being ignored in order to allow a candidate, who clearly can't, to pass though the system because she is a woman?

Didn't anyone, at any stage, stand up and say, "enough, you're chopped"? How can it be that she made it through to being in the right-hand seat, with all that implies to eventual transition to captaincy, if she was so incapable? Can it possibly be true that someone was overruled in order to allow her to progress?

I've no axe to grind here, I'm just saddened if it's true that political correctness has over ridden common sense, and the best pilot training system in the world!
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