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It seems to be human nature to want to blame our airline rejections on something or someone other than ourselves in order to make ourselves feel better. I know...I've done it myself, to my embarassment.
For those of you who are convinced all women have it so great - all I can say is I wish it were true for me. As a female with 1200/100, I can't get any farther than anyone else regardless of gender. Like you all, I've sent out dozens and donzens of resumes. One airline finally took the bait and interviewed me, but like 50% of the others interviewing that day I did not get offered a class. So what? That's the game we all play. This very same airline put a male applicant with 500/50 in that same class. Go figure.
More perspective....
There are a handful of corporate outfits on the field who hire the higher-time local CFIs (of which I am one) to yank the gear/talk on the radio in the right seat of their Beechjets, etc. When I went over to talk to the guys in these corporate flt depts I was flat-out told that to put a female in the right seat would upset the "cockpit environment." So the guys get to build a time doing this on the side, but no dice for me. And to tell the truth, I understand their point of view....in a small, good ol' boys network, it WOULD upset the apple cart to have the capt's who couldn't keep it zipped drooling over some chick in the other seat. Whoever said life was fair?
I guess my point is that it is real easy to blame our personal situations (or lack thereof) on people who are different (ie, different gender, different race). There will always be those pilots out there who have things come easy for them...maybe their folks/spouse paid for all their ratings at some Pilot Farm, or maybe they've been handed every job they've ever interviewed for. That's the reality of aviation. For the rest of us out there who have to work twice as hard to get half as far, all we can do is to stay the course and have faith that it WILL pay off someday, as long as we keep trying. Blaming our situations on others accomplishes nothing, other than making us bitter with terrible attitudes, making us oh-so-much-fun to share a cockpit with.
Best of luck to all of you...stay the course.
For those of you who are convinced all women have it so great - all I can say is I wish it were true for me. As a female with 1200/100, I can't get any farther than anyone else regardless of gender. Like you all, I've sent out dozens and donzens of resumes. One airline finally took the bait and interviewed me, but like 50% of the others interviewing that day I did not get offered a class. So what? That's the game we all play. This very same airline put a male applicant with 500/50 in that same class. Go figure.
More perspective....
There are a handful of corporate outfits on the field who hire the higher-time local CFIs (of which I am one) to yank the gear/talk on the radio in the right seat of their Beechjets, etc. When I went over to talk to the guys in these corporate flt depts I was flat-out told that to put a female in the right seat would upset the "cockpit environment." So the guys get to build a time doing this on the side, but no dice for me. And to tell the truth, I understand their point of view....in a small, good ol' boys network, it WOULD upset the apple cart to have the capt's who couldn't keep it zipped drooling over some chick in the other seat. Whoever said life was fair?
I guess my point is that it is real easy to blame our personal situations (or lack thereof) on people who are different (ie, different gender, different race). There will always be those pilots out there who have things come easy for them...maybe their folks/spouse paid for all their ratings at some Pilot Farm, or maybe they've been handed every job they've ever interviewed for. That's the reality of aviation. For the rest of us out there who have to work twice as hard to get half as far, all we can do is to stay the course and have faith that it WILL pay off someday, as long as we keep trying. Blaming our situations on others accomplishes nothing, other than making us bitter with terrible attitudes, making us oh-so-much-fun to share a cockpit with.
Best of luck to all of you...stay the course.
