
Would You Prefer a Female Pilot, or a Male Pilot in the Plane You Are Flying In?


Like in a great number of jobs, women have been preventing from performing it simply because they were considered unsuitable for that kind of job but mainly because men feared competition and higher levels of achievement by women. The same applies to pilots with airlines.
It is true that in the early times of aviation when all the surfaces were commanded with pulleys and needed a certain strength to move a rudder or aileron in an airplane, women would struggle bringing up the necessary physical force.
However, in today's world were everything is electronically and hydraulically controlled, you need brains and not physical force. It has been proved in many studies that women just as suited as men to perform high stress level jobs requiring mental strength rather than physical one. Today's flying business is a push button business and nothing else.
I know because I come from a family of aviators and other travel related occupations and I had first hand experience with the flight controls and electronics of an airplane.
Where do you get your general opinion that males are safer pilots? From the single user that is actually NOT a pilot in real life?
None of the other users stated clearly that flying an aircraft is safer with a male pilot and the other MCP that made a wrong statement about knowledge has probably no idea of the airline business.
The sex of the pilot has nothing to do with how safely they fly. Their training and time in the air do.
There's no commercial carrier that hires an incompetent pilot because they'll be sued into oblivion if there's an accident. However, there are small companies it would pay you to research flying with before you go.
Again, not the sex of the pilots, the experience and the quality of the planes and company you're flying with.
The reason I don't fly doesn't really have anything to do with the pilots or their gender. It's more the fact that I'm in a mechanical object with a lot of moving parts that could fail at any moment, and I'm high enough off the ground that a crash will most likely be fatal.
Doesn't matter to me. Pilots go through significant training, required retraining every year, and have regular health checks. One of the reasons flying is the safest means of transportation.
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I would prefer a female pilot because of sexism. I'm sure a male will also be good and I would not care at all to fly with one. But a female may have to be even better to get the same job, so I will prefer her to have that opportunity.
I mean the people who hire pilots are often sexist. That's why a female pilot would likely be more qualified than average male pilots if she did get hired.
I prefer a pilot with at least 5,000 flight hours in this particular aircraft. I haven’t seen the numbers but i would guess that female pilots are not generally as experienced as make pilots because they are probably younger.
Either one, it doesn't matter. Don't pilots just take off and land the plane anyway?
Would not matter as long as they are qualified
I don't care as long as they know what their doing and get me there in one piece
It doesn't matter, as long as they can pilot the plane.
Don't care about their gender
I fear God over the gender of my pilot
It's a man's world
Captain ;) @AviatorTom
C. I feel safer on terra firma.
Gender doesn’t matter for this.
DGAF !!!
That's a fair comment also
Don't Give A F**k !!!
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