I’ve been working on an essay about factors that keep women from getting pilot’s licenses, and how there is a seeming age group bimodality
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...for a house or money that i can use to get my business off the ground.
yep. So you have these compounding factors — having a career in the first place that provides the income is one of the filters.
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part of my interest is having found the soaring community to be so, so welcoming
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so "the usual reasons" are not the same, for why women don't do get into it. It looks to me more like women are cut off at the source
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yeah and i guess the other way i could have afforded it was by joining the military but i was and am not into that.
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and some military trained helicopter pilots i spoke with all let their certs lapse because civil helicopters weren't as...
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...appealing to fly because of simpler instrumentation, smaller craft, etc.
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and they were surprised that civil instruction often starts with R22s or similar and how difficult the small ones are to fly
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...compared to big, stable, instrument and automation assisted military helicopters.
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I've heard similarly from military aircraft pilots who miss the AoA indicators. I'm curious to fly with one sometime if I can
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