UK GA Misogyny;Are Female Pilots Denigrated.
Mind you, (some) non pilot females could do everybody a favour when they get out of an aeroplane, and I talk to them assuming that they "might" be the pilot, by not responding with incredulity to the possibility.
Sexism, and the assumption that some things are beyond women, is sadly not restricted to men.
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Sexism, and the assumption that some things are beyond women, is sadly not restricted to men.
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There is a nice sidebar to that story Sam.
The female pilot teaching African women to fly
Fourteen-year-old Paballo (Pabi) Leqhotsa jumps out of the pilot seat of a four-seater Cessna monoplane giddy with delight.
"It was amazing. I felt like I was in control, do you understand?" she says, spinning round in excitement. Taking control of an aircraft was something the teenager from Soweto, a township just outside Johannesburg, had dreamed of since she was little.
She stands on the runway at Grand Central Airport and whoops with pure joy; the words of delight streaming out of her.
"Driving Zulu Sierra Papa Whiskey Whiskey (her aircraft's call-sign) was so amazing. It was so amazing!"
The woman behind this euphoria is Refilwe Ledwaba, South Africa's first black woman to have flown for the South African Police Service.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44764541
The female pilot teaching African women to fly
Fourteen-year-old Paballo (Pabi) Leqhotsa jumps out of the pilot seat of a four-seater Cessna monoplane giddy with delight.
"It was amazing. I felt like I was in control, do you understand?" she says, spinning round in excitement. Taking control of an aircraft was something the teenager from Soweto, a township just outside Johannesburg, had dreamed of since she was little.
She stands on the runway at Grand Central Airport and whoops with pure joy; the words of delight streaming out of her.
"Driving Zulu Sierra Papa Whiskey Whiskey (her aircraft's call-sign) was so amazing. It was so amazing!"
The woman behind this euphoria is Refilwe Ledwaba, South Africa's first black woman to have flown for the South African Police Service.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44764541
