Good to see that the ladies can fight their own corner:ok:

The most southern female helo pilot must the one in the Falklands flying S61s who has to put up with horrendous weather.

However having flown both helos and now planks for an airline I have to say the latter is more enjoyable. At least you end up in comfortable hotel at the end of the day and more often than not it is at a different place (country) than where you started!

Anne :O

Anne.Nonymous,

"However having flown both helos and now planks for an airline I have to say the latter is more enjoyable. At least you end up in comfortable hotel at the end of the day......"

Good observation! It fits my favorite saying, "If a place needs helicopters, it is probably not worth visiting."

A very interesting discussion. Surely some men are threatened by females in all works of life, not just the ones that fly helicopters. It's time guys (the very sexist ones) came to accept that some women are more than capable of doing whatever they set their minds to, without crying, having to stop to put on lipstick, or any of the other drivel that the insecure males in this thread mentioned.
NZ has a rescue Pilot flying a 222 that is female. The Airforce has several flying Helicopters as does the Army.
There are 1% of all pilots(H) in NZ with valid Class 1 medicals that are female, (576 to date). Five female instructors (H)(of which I'm one). We even have an A Cat instructor.
In some of the thread, I noticed the discussion was that women won't like the hours, conditions etc. What bollocks! If you like a job/career you will always put up with the bad stuff to get to the good bits.

Thank goodness I work with a bunch of men that are confident in their own ability and not threatened by working alongside a female pilot.

have only seen one lady that will rough it in the scrub in oz... and thats where all oz or should i say where 95% of oz pilots get thier start

please tell me which lady is going to roll the swag out for 3 to 4 weeks at atime have a bogie once or if you are lucky twice a week.. fly 10 hours a day every day oops 5 days a week sorry casa.
do 25 and 50 hourlies in the bush... come on

they want the good turbine or good piston jobs near town

if there is a female pilot out there now who wants a job as above i mean in the bush.. send me an email