16 members · 7 posts · Women in aviation
Pilots, mechanics, controllers, dispatchers, and cabin crew. Career questions, uniform fit, maternity policies, mentoring, and the specific things that are exhausting to explain to anyone who has not lived them.
Everyone is welcome to read. Post if you have something to add, not something to explain. Recruiting posts get removed unless the job is real and the pay is in it.
Imani Osei (pinned)
Every trade, not just the flight deck. Mechanics, controllers, dispatch, cabin. Anyone can read this group. If you are going to post, bring something you know rather than a question about whether the problem is real.
Brianna Castellanos
Flight nursing is one of the few corners of aviation that is majority women, and it produces the opposite problem. I have been assumed to be the nurse when I was the one running the scene, which is correct, and I have watched a male paramedic be assumed to be in charge of me, which is not. Same reflex, different direction.
Deandra Whitlock
ARFF, and I was the first woman on my crew, which in 2019 is a sentence that should not have been true. It is fine now. What made it fine was not a policy, it was a captain who corrected people in the moment and never made it a thing afterwards. That is the whole intervention. It is not complicated.
Rosa Iglesias
soloed today!! posting here because when i joined i read a thread where someone said working the line counts as being in aviation and i believed it and it changed how i showed up to work. thank you whoever that was
Mei-Lin Chao
Maternity policy question for anyone at a 121 carrier. My company has one on paper and nobody in ops control has ever used it, so I cannot find out how it works in practice without becoming the test case. Has anyone here been the test case?
Luz Bermudez
a&p apprentice, 23, and i am the only woman on a shop floor of nine. it is fine. everyone is fine. but i did not realise how much energy fine costs until i went to a training class with three other women mechanics in it and came back exhausted in a completely different way
Karen Whitfield
I started in 1994 and I want to be precise about what has changed, because vague nostalgia helps nobody. The open hostility is mostly gone. The assumption that I am not the pilot is not. And the uniform still does not fit, which after thirty years I find genuinely funny.