Female pilots at Ryanair???
 

Heard at work

I've heard of a group of ten people, all rated on the 737. Nine of them were called for interviews and simulator tests. The tenth was a female and not called.
Are these normal procedures at Ryanair?

yes...

only 4 female pilots in whole company...

What would be the norm for Large European or U.S. Airlines ..... (Guys to Gals Pilot ratio)

The company I work for gets 1 application from a female for every 100 pilot applications made. Not sure if this is typical or not, but it is fair to say that we are not a standard scheduled service airline, and we are not so well known as (say) BA or Virgin.

However, the applications we get are from people really interested in joining us, and the fact that only one in 100 is female does say something.

This hardly seems an issue to worry about. Woman are often hired by airlines to simply fill quotas. Airlines want more women on their rosters to remain “politically correct”. If anything you have a better chance at obtaining a job as a woman.

Not long ago I saw a complet female Crew on a LH 737.
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Ingo

(Edit due to "not part of the subject")

Two or three times I've been the only man in a crew of ten. But finally we made it...
:)

Chickenscan fly...the figure for RYR is more like 17 female line pilots of which 4 are skippers.

Ifix planes..congratulations on the sucessful relationship you have developed with your female flight crew!!!

Recently I was briefing a contractor (a senior manager in his large, publicly quoted organisation) for some proposed work on the airport.
I guess he was in his late 30s, and his entire career had been spent in civil engineering.
While we were talking a the crew of a LR45 called for start and the clearance, a female voice - the contractor went very quiet, and eventually he said "Was that the Stewardess?".
I explained that, not only was it a lady pilot, but it was an all female crew, and that this was quite common.

After seeing the aircraft take off, and much grinding of what, in theory, should be a very intelligent brain, he said, "OK, I see that to meet equality legislation a token woman is allowed on the flight deck, but they don't let women fly the big ones do they?".

At that moment, my relief colleague, who is also my watch manager, entered the tower to take over from me, how I wish I had a camera when I introduced her to him. :rolleyes:

Hobie,

At our company I reckon at least 10% are female pilots...

(european, little more than a hundred flightdeck employees)

Huh….I suppose I witnessed a pivotal point in aviation history.

I stepped out of my seat in a DC3 to ride shotgun to a very nice lady who was the first woman ‘airline pilot’ in the free world. One of our captains resigned in protest—or so he said—and the press who met the aircraft in the early hours, (Germany and Denmark) all asked the same question. Will you wear skirt or trousers?

FR female pilots
 

Chickenscanfly,


*FACT*

There are more than 4 female pilots in FR. :p

if there are 14 female pilots in FR....what percentage of the total pilots does that make?

NikNak

You should have shown him this:

http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/images/...RDS-2004-3.jpg

The lady is the Captain and this is their award citation, in part:

For their collective outstanding act of courage and devotion to duty in the course of a sea rescue, the crew members of Rescue 193 are awarded the Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award by the Guild Of Air Pilots And Air Navigators.

more here down the page a bit.

Edited in light of the next post - amazingly no mention is made of Flt Lt Everitt in the full citation.

AA

"Sole" pilot - yep apart from the very experienced RAF SAR Captain stood next to her - Flt Lt Everitt.

Never check, assume...

Hopeful pilot, I think you might be "hopeful" for quite a while with your ignorance of airlines, recruiting procedures and female pilots.

Around 3% of commercial licence holders are female. In the UK I think BA is the only airline that meets or exceeds 3% female pilots. If there were positive discrimination every airline would exceed 3%.

Until very recently there were UK airlines with no female pilots.

I believe in the UK there are no pilot managers or chief pilots who are female.

Positive discrimination towards women is both not allowed and also does not happen. You have a very low opinion of (male) Chief Pilots if you think they would offer a job to someone who does not meet the selection standard, purely because they were female.

Homework for Hopeful Pilot - contact all UK airlines and report back to us with the percentage of pilots who are female, at each airline.

Airbus Girl...

I can't remember her name, but I'm pretty sure the chief pilot at FRA in Hurn is female (standing by to be corrected).

Over 40 female pilots at another large low cost carrier out of about 1150. Makes about 3%

Airbus Girl:

My company used to have a 7% ratio of female pilots but they either got pregnant or joined other companies (including one who stupidly joined BA).

Is not the Chief A-300 Trainer in Channex a lady?

I suppose letting us fly is one thing - but heaven forbid we ever become training captains. That would be
worse than female bishops!