Kizuno wrote:

In the UK and Eastern Europe, I recall seeing a number of active,
enthusiastic,
YOUNG (and mature) and talented female pilots. There are enough to hold a
Women's championship, and I remember reading (and seeing) that female
glider
pilots in the UK are something like 10% of the total. Jim's comments are
directed at the US, but clearly there are drivers (like a strong club
structure I'd think) that are not likely to change in the States.

No solutions, just observations..........

And there've always been women pilots here in the UK who have distinguished
themselves one way or another. I can think of at least two women national
champions (Sally Wells, Anne Burns), and some of us are old enough to know
how much we all owe to Anne Welch.

However this thread did remind me of the comment of the first girl friend I
ever took up in a glider: "Don't you get bored flying round in circles all
the time?"
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