KLB
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Did you see the guy saying there were studies that women didn't make good pilots because they are easily spatially disoriented?
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Did you see the guy saying there were studies that women didn't make good pilots because they are easily spatially disoriented?
Wardogg
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Hacker15e
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For reasons beyond the scope of this thread, I spent a week with the at-the-time USAF Chief of Neuropsychiatry back in the 2006 timeframe. Because the reason I was being treated by him involved cognitive performance, I got to see some data about this exact topic.
There is evidence that female internal-organ physiology has some advantages over males in both tolerance of amplitude of G and duration of sustainment of that higher G. Unfortunately there's not a large body of documented study on it simply because of the relative sample sizes being too small to derive actual theory instead of hypothesis.
The cognitive performance data, of which there is also too little data to confirm hypothesis, shows essentially the same applied performance capability between sexes.
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Friend of mine from my Navy reserve squadron, was told by some turd burgler at our other job that she should "start thinking more like a man". She is a former fighter pilot, and also just upgraded at southern jets. He's a fat middle aged man who once, for 4 years, turned wrenches on the plane. No offense to those, but the comparison is a little amazing given the patronizing. I released a hearty laugh when she told me this
Some of these guys breathe the air that the rest of us do. But apparently at much reduced concentration
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killbilly
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That tracks. I vaguely recall something about the Gs being a factor….
KLB
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PJP is a bizarre place. My hopes it's the vocal minority. But the group projects as if they are stuck in a different era. But it may just be the huge echo chamber that exists there.
KLB
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I didn't read anything that said that women make any less of a pilot because of it though. They were attempting to use that argument to explain why there are less women pilots than men pilots.
Cherokee_Cruiser
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I believe the term you’re looking for is “swarthy fireplug of indeterminate middle-eastern heritage.”
Hacker15e
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Yep, that's entirely true, too.
But it is not considered in the algorithm for military pilot selection. There used to be a muscular strength test (above and beyond the normal annual physical fitness test and the centrifuge training) that UPT graduates who had been selected for fighter training had to take (Daff and I had to do it back in the 90s), but even that "test" was stopped at some point shortly after.
KLB
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The South Florida corporate aviation culture certainly is an interesting one. Corporate aviation, in general, is very closed off and requires a bit of networking. But South Florida is very much "Good Ole Boy'ish"
Scheming to milk money at every opportunity is also a normal practice. Unethical things such as putting an aircraft in a mx shop where the owner would give a kickback rather than looking at the price/quality are ignored. Or the Coursey scheme of giving kickbacks to using their "brokering service" when a client's aircraft went AOG. These practices are pretty normal here.
Cherokee_Cruiser
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CoffeeIcePapers
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I’m going to ask for the defamation suite next time I check in for my overnight.
Hacker15e
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That sounds like a pretty damn fun place to spend a night.
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