Why doesn't someone remove this thread!!??

Jet Boy,
This thread has raised an issue relevant to our peers in the industry. I think that on the whole it has increased awareness and has brought forward healthy debate on the issue.

If you can't handle it, don't read it!

Its simple really. Women have to do all the jumping up and down because it is they who will ultimately benefit. There is nothing in it for males. In fact it can be argued, quite the opposite.
It's the same principle only reversed, that has had women lobbying for access to military training to give them qualifications to better paying jobs, but stopping short of demanding that women be drafted in a national emergency. Why? Because there is nothing for women in that. But thats only one males' opinion. Cheers

Better check your knuckles there Argus...I suspect they might be dangerously close to dragging on the ground.

:) 10 out of 10, Oleo! :)

Discriminating people discriminate.
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And some people just tend to repeat themselves on different threads!

I don't have a problem with women and their ability to fly because most of the ones that I have seen handle a broom really well. Oops, only joking!
Seriously though they fly the a/c as well as any male but they are just not as robust as the fellas and definitely do spend more time off the roster. Sorry ladies but this is fact.

If your wife keeps coming out of the kitchen to nag you, you cut her chain too long.
:)

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Speak the truth, get slandered. Typical.
Men in the US, if they don't register for the draft, are prohibited from getting jobs with the Govt as well as other penalties.
Women don't have that problem. Are we likely to see women jumping up and down to reverse this? I think not.
I know this is getting off the thread but at least acknowledge that women want all the advantages of military training without the concomittant risks.
My knuckles are just fine thank you.

Captain Ed

Has Marlene really nagged you ENOUGH http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/tongue.gif

SIERRA

Captain Ed,

Why are you so negative all the time? The original thread posed a very timely question. Instead of providing a rational, engaging response, you elected to provide asinine responses. What a discredit you are to your former profession... I suspect you had one too many bad landings and suffer from mental problems as a result.

The original thread provides an excellent topic for discussion (both cultural and otherwise) in a forum. I am interested to hear rational opinions from all sides - not ridiculous and puerile statements from insecure misogynists. I would not choose to fly with anyone who displays such arrogance and contempt for progressive thinking.

Let's get back to the original thread...

Thanks

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed pilot is king!

Siera- Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat!

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Lavdumper - Stick to your specialty, and I'll stick to mine. Who needs women pilots? Nobody. There is a surplus of male pilots looking for work. This is just more of the feel good, warm and fuzzy, smiley, affirmative action nonsense.

Womens hormones and bodies make them fit for bearing children, the one thing we men cannot do. Don't mess with mother nature.

Captain Ed, please just go away - and enjoy your retirement, place a chair on your lawn, sit down and have a drink, watch the sky, and think back on your career, and leave it at that... And we`ll look down on you and be thankful that screening of todays pilots, includes psycho tests, and requires a minimum of maturity. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Enough

Captain Ed

Two years ago I had a (successfully resolved) Full Emergency. The 28 year-old blonde in the right hand seat was as fine an example of a professional airline pilot as I could ever have wished for. The incident took two hours to resolve, during which time she filtered all my suggestions as to the plan of action, gently turned me away from some of the bogus ones, and proposed sensible amendments to the better ones. We needed to do quite a bit of manual flying, which she did beautifully and accurately. In short, her support and skill was the best you can get. I know she would not be offended if I say that her body looked pretty good to me for child-bearing - but I saw no evidence that this in any way precluded her from being a damn fine pilot.

I said earlier in this thread that the issue of "should there be women pilots?" is now surely dead in this industry - well if it isn't, it should be. It is a complete non-starter as a reasoned argument.

Cheers!
B

Captain Ed, you are becoming my hero.All you other limp dicks should reach down, grab your balls, give them a gentle squeeze, say to yourself, yes I am a man and I will not bow down to PC or pressure from feminazi's. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CAPT. ED............

Was listening to the scanner the other day to aircraft coming in to Heathrow. Heard a lovely sounding lady on Egyptair. I've heard from them directly that they don't employ non nationals so looks like the doors to the flight deck may be opening to the Arab-Muslim ladies out there. Anyone with more accurate info?

Though, they don't call it the cockpit for nothing.

Final Trim - Thanks Buddy!
Buzzoff - So she did a good job. Don't you think a man would have done just as well? How many beautiful little blonde babies has this pilot produced?

On the subject of Egyptian women in mens occupations. There is now a college course in plumbing for women in the University of the Pharaoh's. The graduates are Pharaoh Faucet Majors.
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PIA and Royal Jordanian have female pilots, I think?

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