Are female pilots as good?

solarz

solarz

Brigadier
It could be something to do with spatial recognition abilities. It is acknowledged that men generally have better spatial awareness than women.
 
bd popeye

bd popeye

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legoboy said:
China seems to have a larger percent of female pilots as opposed to counties like Russia and the US.
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In the USAF as late as 2006 there were 568 (4.1 percent) female pilots and 210 (4.6 percent) female navigators & approxmiatly 600 enlisted aircrew.

That's just the USAF. How many female aircrew does China have? i.e. pilots, navigators and enlisted aircrew? thank you.
 
Hyperwarp

Hyperwarp

Captain
Just thought I'll add these :

B-2 bombers have had at least 2 female pilots - Alice K. Moore, Laura Meyer (and probably more we haven't heard of)
F-22 first female pilots was - Jammie Jamieson (July 2008?)

Eurofighter, Rafale have had their 1st female pilots, add to that women have been flying F-16 & F-15 for sometime.
 
Kurt

Kurt

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Air Force Brat said:
Yes it does have to do with attitude, but no you can't just tell the girls they can do it, and yes I have 7 daughters, and yes I was taking pictures of another aircraft in formation with my aircraft and asked a female reporter to fly the airplane which she did for several minutes, and yes I was telling her she was doing a fine job, but she decided she shouldn't be doing that and became hysterical in a matter of 33 seconds or so. I was sitting in the left seat at the controls, so no danger, no sweat, airplane straight and level at 2500 ft, perfect weather, and a jock type girl?
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A guy who can't fly will more likely rate himself OK, while a girl is usually trained to be overcritical and risk averse. These problems are part of genderization and are very weakly related to sex. The whole spatial capability issue is a cultural gender training thing.
 
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delft

Brigadier
Air Force Brat said:
There are phsycological reasons, but mostly it is just desire, to a man, you dream of flying like a bird from the time you are an egg, I just don't see that desire in most women. When given the opportunity, women are quite capable of driving an airplane around the sky, in the USAF there is a strong component of gender/racial preferences to leadership, which in the USAF means fighter pilot or at least command pilot, and lots of money has been spent to implement these programs. Lots of very capable pilots are shunted aside because they are white males, and also ran talent is boosted to the top in order to achieve equality. I am not against equality, read my thoughts on the naming of the Chines CV, I think it should have the name of a heroin in the Chinese culture.
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Most men aren't fighter pilots. I decided not to try to become a pilot when I started to wear glasses at the age of 12. I later had a demonstration flight in a Piper Cub and didn't really like it, especially at low altitude going from flying over land to flying over water and back. I knew perfectly well what was the source of the turbulence. You can do lots of things wrt aircraft without flying the things.

During WWII many countries used female pilots but only a few as fighter pilots. I remember reading that the Soviet Union had one or more female fighter regiments but that the top female ace flew with male colleagues.
 
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hmmwv

Junior Member
bd popeye said:
In the USAF as late as 2006 there were 568 (4.1 percent) female pilots and 210 (4.6 percent) female navigators & approxmiatly 600 enlisted aircrew.

That's just the USAF. How many female aircrew does China have? i.e. pilots, navigators and enlisted aircrew? thank you.
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Over 60 years China had a total of 328 female pilots, in 2009 there were 52 female pilots in active service.
 
siegecrossbow

siegecrossbow

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According to CCTV's report although female pilots are not as physically strong or tolerant of higher G's as their male counterparts, they are quicker learners and are a lot better at reading the instruments... Which means that they are less accident-prone and that the age old stereotype perpetuated by feminists is actually true to a certain extent.
 
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jobjed

Captain
siegecrossbow said:
According to CCTV's report although female pilots are not as physically strong or tolerant of higher G's as their male counterparts, they are quicker learners and are a lot better at reading the instruments... Which means that they are less accident-prone and that the age old stereotype perpetuated by feminists is actually true to a certain extent.
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I think I read somewhere that because of a different neck shape, females are actually more tolerant than males to G-forces because of a different blood flow pattern or something. Does anyone have any information on this?
 
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no_name

Colonel
From what I hear females also have slightly wider peripheral vision range than males, and notice the big picture more.
 
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