Nova,

Keep up the work. I find that most "old school" men are intimidated at best, just completely disgusted that a female can do their big man job just as well, if not better.

In my airline experience, I have only run across a handful of people that have given me any sort of gruff about my job. Most people think it's really cool that I'm a pilot! I am also a single mom of three, so if you ever want to talk about juggling things....lol. And no, my ex did not leave me, I left him and pursued this on my own. I chose a job and have the seniority to be home every night and it really works for my family. The money and stability is really the only hard thing.

Be strong, keep your chin up - you can do it. And you can have anything you want in the process.

FL

Capability:
I have trained good ones and bad ones of both genders very little difference other than generalized personality trait differences.

Paired together for a bid or 4 day trip:
The female pilots I have flown with or taught are more pleasent in general, which helps on a long day wx, mx sucks etc.

Family life:
All I can say is good luck. Sure being a pilot is cool for a little bit, but...

Preferential hiring:
Very little has been said on this. You will be at an extreme advantage over your male counterparts. You will get the interviews first......& I mean period. I know individuals who got jobs against the company's own "so called policies". I will leave it at that.

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[QUOTE=samy;505560]the direction this thread has gone should answer your question. just do your job, do it well and stay above reproach.[/QUOTE]

exactly.

I have only had two captains who have made me feel uncomfortable in the cockpit. Surprisingly I do fly with a lot of captains that say I am their first female FO which is shocking to me. I agree that it is no different, I am treated like everyone else, from the pilots. The passengers will always make strange comments. Either "you go girl" or "wow I've never seen a girl before." I made a lot of good female pilot friends at the airlines too.

I've flown with a few female captains. I had a problem with one that seemed to think she needed to go out of her way to assert the fact that she was captain. I think it had more to do with the fact she recently upgraded and went to a certain school in Indiana. Other than that, they've been just as good to fly with as the men.

I used to see it a lot the girls that have something to prove, but this was more at my college CFI level... luckily most of them arent pilots anymore, or are still CFI-ing.....

In my corp./charter experience,

I have flown with one female crew member once---gender not an issue.

I know several female corp. pilots. It is not really uncommon anymore.

I have to echo most of the sentiments here. All the women I've flown with have been great pilots. But no better or no worse than most of the men.

As ski patrol mentioned, you will be a great advantage over men at getting interviewed and typcially hired! At least early in your career. If you're good looking, it'll last a lifetime. I know that's wrong in many ways but it's reality. Same as it might be for a tall, in-shape, handsome man.

I think I've only met one woman who wasn't flying turbine equipment before 1000 hours total time. I've met maybe two men out of a hundred that were. Obviously this is all pre-2006 when the airlines started hiring anyone with a pulse that had 500 hours regardless of gender.

Mr. I.

+1 on this issue.
I have seen way to many not qualified/under qualified women get interviews and the job when their male counterparts can't even get an interview. I personally know 2 females that did not even have an application on file (the app window had long since closed) at a certain airline (not UAL this time) but yet they were called in to interview and offered jobs.

Same thing also happenes when one is trying to make that transition from CFI'ing to other aircraft. I have seen way to many get job in that nice shiny Citation job over more qualified and harder working people.