Looking on the bright side, it probably further justified failing the checkee - nobody with an attitude like that belongs on a flight deck.

G

A woman I know who is a North Sea helicopter pilot says she sometimes tells people at parties that she has a part time job at the airport - to save the amazement and silly questions. Maybe I should do something similar. But, like Whirlygig, I seem to find it hard not to start talking about aviation in the end. Even if it's only because someone comments about the weather, and I say there's a warm front coming in and that's why it's miserable and drizzly...well, even that seems to be a suspect comment and immediately brands me as something other than an "ordinary" female, apparently. Then the pilot bit comes out, and then they ask what I fly, and so....

Helicopter Pilots
 

Hey, you should be proud of who you are and what you do! I also find it impossible not to mention aviation and flying helicopters when I talk to people. It just seems to come out! A lot of people are quite amazed by it, the rest think I am a millionaire (which I am most definately not!).

You have achieved a great thing being able to fly/instruct. One day, when I get there I will be very proud and happy to know I am able to do something that others only dream about...

Hey, who wants to be "ordinary"?!

WhirlyGirl

I think such "necessities" sick!! I would think we were all sensible adults. Guess I think wrong.... :(

I remember when the first woman was supposed to go into space.... there was much to-do about her being "alone" with her fellow male astronauts... the "mixed environement". :mad:

When I started flying, I KNEW I was entering a man-dominated activity. Well, I either had to accept that fact or get out! I stayed on... got flirted with, got harassed, too.... but I NEVER got the idea of reporting it (ok, in one case I almost did). It would have meant more hassel then it was worth and gotten ME nowhere!

It took YEARS before Lufthansa had the first female pilots.... now they are common and no one thinks twice about it!! Unfortunately I was already too old by that time to join up :{

Westy

Whirlygig
Must make for interesting RT calls.:E

Didn't she marry one of them a bit later?

G

A woman I know who is a North Sea helicopter pilot says she sometimes tells people at parties that she has a part time job at the airport - to save the amazement and silly questions.


Whirlybird.......are you talking about me or are there more of us up here than I thought???

Blind,

Dunno, as I'm not sure who you are. If it's you who I stayed with in Dec 2001 and went out to the rigs with, then it's you I'm talking about! If not, then there must be at least two of you doing it!

So, if you're who you might be, you now know who I am. So why don't you pm me and let me know, so that I can stop (mis)quoting you on this forum. :D If can you follow that!

Not so PC comment from some clever DICK in the Middle East when I asked for confirmation that Emirates don't take women pilots:


From 'flybystring':

Yes they do have girl pilots, they are the ones who call in sick if its raining in india/asia, its snowing in Europe and its windy just about anywhere, not to mention if the MSA is above sea level.