Our friend, Karlene Petitt, is involved with an initiative to get 2010 female pilots introduced to aviation.
It’s been 100 years since the first woman earned her pilots license. To celebrate this anniversary, Mireille Goyer had a vision of introducing 2010 new girls and women to aviation this year. For all who signed up, only 25% followed through. She’s a bit short of her goal with only a little over 500.
In 1910, Raymonde de Laroche was the first woman pilot to earn her pilot’s license? During that year, only 3% of all pilots were women. Throughout the years there have been a multitude of firsts for women. But, today, women still only represent 6% of all pilots.
Mireille would love for you to sign up and register on her website so she can send you information and track your progress. Her website is full of all sorts of useful information.
Listen to Karlene talk about the event in this 6-minute audio.
Every entrant, pilot and passenger, will receive a digital certificate. Your flight will be posted on her websight. Trophies will be given for:
- Most women friendly airport.
- Person who introduced the most non-pilot women and girls to aviation
- Most unusual introduction, aircraft type, location, registration, or passenger uniqueness
To support the program, and in honor of the 100 years of licensed women aviators, Karlene’s giving away $100 bill to one person who introduces a girl or women to flying:
Rules:
- Fill up your plane with a women or girls. Balloons. Gliders. Blimps.
- Take them to work, if you teach in a Full-Flight Commercial Simulator.
- Take a photo of your logbook entry of the flight.
- Take a photo of your passengers, or the women in the seat of the simulator.
- Write up a flight report in word format with women/girls names, the uniqueness of your flight, and a little about you.
- Sign up to follow this blog and then….
- Email everything to Karlene and Mireille
More comprehensive details are available on Karlene’s blog.
A FREE flight for females in Sydney
Any lady or young lady that would like a free flight in Sydney, Australia, should contact me throught the contact form on this website. It’ll be great fun and I promise you’ll have a good time… and at the same time you’ll be supporting this great initiative and earn your place in history as being part of this unique event. We have until the end of the year so, with time running out and my crazy airline schedule, you’ll have to be quick.
How can YOU support the program?
If you can support Karlene and the Centennial of Woman Pilots’ in any way it would be greatly appreciated. You can link to Karlene’s blog (or this post) on your website; if you’re a pilot you can register and take a female flying; you can make contact with Karlene and host your own local event… or you can post the above audio in your website or a blog post. you can simply copy the code below or visit this page for a choice of players.
Original post and comments from: flight.org
