what is it about women?

Questions regarding females and gliding:



Please find below,

several questions considering constitution, psychology,

and motivations of women,

for your sincere proffers and posits

hereunto:



1. Why do more females not fly gliders?

(Therein may be answer to why are there so few women

glider pilots.)

a) are they afraid?



--Absolutely not. Bring it on.



b) do they feel no sense of gain by accomplishing

flight?



--It is an accomplishment, but not a particularly difficult one to acheive
these days. Just expensive.



c) is their (female) fear mechanism and psychology

different from that of males? how?



--Not mine, but I can't speak for all females. I've encountered many who seem
afraid to fly alone.



d) is their (female) thrill and joy psychology intrinsically

different from that of males? how?



--More thrills, PLEASE! Can we do more wingovers in early training? That's what
got me hooked. Oh and please burn every 2-33 in existance. Nothing is more
disheartening than flying a box 25 times and paying out the nose for it until
you can cough up even more to transition to something halfway decent!



2. Why do more females not seek out gliding aviation

and sport much as they may for male company and sport

among hang glider pilots and for among male parachute

jumpers and sport?



--Check out the age distribution among glider pilots vs hang glider pilots.



3. If male glider pilots came to the airfield in Limousines,

wore tatoos and had ear and tongue piercings, used

and gave away currently popular illegal drugs, and

flashed Gold debtcards, would more females be attracted

to gliding than now?



--Probably. At least they'd be entertaining to watch, and maybe they'd even pay
for a hotel for their crew instead of selling their souls for a $40,000 racing
ship and then being tightwads. Champagne anyone? They'd probably have a pack of
rockets in that limo somewhere which would be grand fun after a few bottles of
bubbly.



4. Is this subject forbidden in America or in worldwide

discussion of gliding?



--I hope not.



Your posits and proffers from males and females, giving

serious thought and expository composition, shall be

interesting. goferit.



Dancing on clouds,



Keep it up!



Jim Culp USA

GatorCity Florida



'Have glider

Will travel'





--If you want more women showing up on the airfield, first try recruiting young
people in general. Soaring is EXPENSIVE!! Hence it becomes a sport for the
sailplane obsessed or the old. You'll have a much easier time recruiting young
women than older ones who are usually saddled with family and financial
responsibilities.



--Loosen up! Take the proverbial stick out of your collective arses. "Girls
just wanna have fun." Look around your home airfield. How could you make it a
little more welcoming? I'm not taking about Martha Stewart style or anything,
although a toilet by the flight line wouldn't hurt....

Just to clear things up, that last post was from Lauren Reitz, not me. It was
simply written on my computer. Lauren is a post-solo 20 yr old female who is a
senior in aeronautical engineering at Penn State and recently completed
checkout in the Grob 103.
-Mitch