Hey Kevin,

my comments were meant to be taken in a light hearted manner. I’ve grown up in an all female environment at home and many of my friends and peers are female, we have friendly, male vs female banter the whole time. Likewise I have flown alongside several female pilots in light aircraft who were admittedly much better than me, their ability to multi-task very effectively is a prime example. Now like I said in my second post, I know many very good female pilots, many of whom are much better than some of the male pilots I know.

I don’t have a web site to back the facts about males being better pilots, however my sources, I consider to be very reliable from several recruiting officers in the RAF and a training captain in the US who works at Delta.

I did also go on to say that there are many aspects of flying which can be considered to be more important than just the pure physical characteristics which women are much better at.

All I’m saying is that I had two very interesting flights commercially with women, this is not a generalization saying that women make bad pilots. I was lucky enough to speak to the BA crew after the flight, they were laughing about the fact that they had turned off the runway at 70 knots (not unusual at all) but then that they had carried on to the apron at 60. Both were blaming the other for the speed, but it was all in a light hearted manner. Now admittedly the weather had something to do with the poor landing on that occasion, but on the Buzz flight the weather was clear, a very light north-westerly breeze (I record such things in my passenger log book), the landing itself was not bad other than the fact that we slightly overshot the touchdown markers and she slammed the nose wheel down. It was not so much the landing but more the reaction of those next to me that made it such a bad flight.

Now there’s nothing I hate more than sexism, but the post was made in a light hearted manner just like the banter I mentioned above. I’m sorry if I offended anyone, I really mean that and like I said I don’t care who sits in the left or right hand seat, just as long as they are up to the job.

Hey hey :), now I’m not saying women can’t be pilots, I have nothing against it and I know many very good pilots who are in fact women. All I’m saying is that my experiences havent been great with women fly the aircraft…I’ve probably just been unlucky.

It has been proven though that men are generally better in the most important PHYSICAL fields needed to be a pilot. I dare say women are much better at the much more important aspects such as team work and concentration.

To be honest when I do get in that right hand seat I won’t care who is sitting next to me, just as long as they are up to the job 🙂

I’m flying to Dublin for the day on Tuesday, can you recommend the best spots?

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Exeter is a great candidate for expansion in my eyes. How many Toronto flights do you have a month?

Right my summer looks something likes this:

June 24th: Stansted – Blackpool (Buzz BAe 146)
June 24th: Blackpool – Dublin (Ryanair 737-200)
June 24th: Dublin – Stansted (Ryanair 737-200)

July 29th: Gatwick – Belfast City (FlyBe BAe 146)
July 29th: Belfast City – Gatwick (FlyBe BAe 146)

Then I’m off to Dresden either with Lufthansa from LHR via FRA or DUS or with Germanwings from STN via Cologne or with BA to Berlin or via Cologne…still haven’t booked yet :p

The really big event of the summer is the start of my ATPL in August with my three day selection process for OAT :S but fingers crossed I should be ok.