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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part of my interest is having found the soaring community to be so, so welcoming
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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