what is it about women?

Questions regarding females and gliding:

Please find below,
several questions considering constitution, psychology,
and motivations of women,
for your sincere proffers and posits
hereunto:

1. Why do more females not fly gliders?
(Therein may be answer to why are there so few women
glider pilots.)
a) are they afraid?

b) do they feel no sense of gain by accomplishing
flight?

c) is their (female) fear mechanism and psychology
different from that of males? how?

d) is their (female) thrill and joy psychology intrinsically
different from that of males? how?

2. Why do more females not seek out gliding aviation
and sport much as they may for male company and sport
among hang glider pilots and for among male parachute
jumpers and sport?

3. If male glider pilots came to the airfield in Limousines,
wore tatoos and had ear and tongue piercings, used
and gave away currently popular illegal drugs, and
flashed Gold debtcards, would more females be attracted
to gliding than now?

4. Is this subject forbidden in America or in worldwide
discussion of gliding?

Your posits and proffers from males and females, giving
serious thought and expository composition, shall be
interesting. goferit.

Dancing on clouds,

Keep it up!

Jim Culp USA
GatorCity Florida

'Have glider
Will travel'

One of my few complaints about the sport of skydiving was that men outnumbered the women by 3:1 or something like that. (How's that for a depressing Ladame ratio?) I was expecting soaring would be a little better, but alas, I've been disappointed in that department, even more this time.

Who cares why!? Let's do something about it!!! So, my New Year's resolution is to do just that. I will recruit only women, and I'm going to start with the bulletin boards in all the sorority houses at the local U. Free rides for any lady who asks, and for many who don't.

It's time to take a page from Hugh Grant's book in About a Boy. To arms, brothers, to arms!!! Two legs, two eyes, two ...

-tw

it's Cybil...


"Jim Culp" wrote in message
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Questions regarding females and gliding:

Please find below,
several questions considering constitution, psychology,
and motivations of women,
for your sincere proffers and posits
hereunto:

1. Why do more females not fly gliders?
(Therein may be answer to why are there so few women
glider pilots.)
a) are they afraid?

b) do they feel no sense of gain by accomplishing
flight?

c) is their (female) fear mechanism and psychology
different from that of males? how?

d) is their (female) thrill and joy psychology intrinsically
different from that of males? how?

2. Why do more females not seek out gliding aviation
and sport much as they may for male company and sport
among hang glider pilots and for among male parachute
jumpers and sport?

3. If male glider pilots came to the airfield in Limousines,
wore tatoos and had ear and tongue piercings, used
and gave away currently popular illegal drugs, and
flashed Gold debtcards, would more females be attracted
to gliding than now?

4. Is this subject forbidden in America or in worldwide
discussion of gliding?

Your posits and proffers from males and females, giving
serious thought and expository composition, shall be
interesting. goferit.

Dancing on clouds,

Keep it up!

Jim Culp USA
GatorCity Florida

'Have glider
Will travel'

At 03:30 10 January 2004, Jim Culp wrote:
Questions regarding females and gliding:

1. Why do more females not fly gliders?
(Therein may be answer to why are there so few women
glider pilots.)

(And there followed a bunch of balderdash!)

Here, IMHO, is the reason there aren't more US women
in soaring: their parents/significant others/spouses/children/
friends are not apt to say...

'Oh yes, $75 - 100 per flight is a reasonable amount
to pay for the 20 to 30 flights you'll need to solo...
(and later on, 'Gee, a gently used ASW 20 with a Cobra
trailer really is a steal at under $30,000.')

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'I understand tomorrow's soaring forecast looks great,
so I'll (pick one: take the day off/hire a babysitter)
to take care of the kids for you.'

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'Hi, Toots. My name is Prince Charming, I have my own
hair and teeth, neither of which needs to be stashed
on a bedside table over night. I own an air conditioned
motorhome with a 1 7/8 ball and I know my way around
the root end of the wing during assembly of the aforementioned
ASW-20. I will never tell you to quit flying gliders
and I will thrill to the dulcet tone of your voice
every time you say, 'There I was at 500 feet...' '

'I'd love to crew for you.'

Any more questions?

Judy

At 04:24 10 January 2004, Ted Wagner wrote:
One of my few complaints about the sport of skydiving
was that men
outnumbered the women by 3:1 or something like that.
(How's that for a
depressing Ladame ratio?) I was expecting soaring
would be a little
better, but alas, I've been disappointed in that department,
even more
this time.

Who cares why!? Let's do something about it!!! So,
my New Year's
resolution is to do just that. I will recruit only
women, and I'm going
to start with the bulletin boards in all the sorority
houses at the
local U. Free rides for any lady who asks, and for
many who don't.


It's time to take a page from Hugh Grant's book in
About a Boy. To arms,
brothers, to arms!!! Two legs, two eyes, two ...

-tw

If you believe the old saw that males are interested
in things whereas females are interested in relationships,
then we should go back to the Pratt-Read and develop
more side-by-side two-seaters.

At 08:24 10 January 2004, Judy Ruprecht wrote:
At 03:30 10 January 2004, Jim Culp wrote:
Questions regarding females and gliding:

1. Why do more females not fly gliders?
(Therein may be answer to why are there so few women
glider pilots.)

(And there followed a bunch of balderdash!)

Here, IMHO, is the reason there aren't more US women
in soaring: their parents/significant others/spouses/children/
friends are not apt to say...

'Oh yes, $75 - 100 per flight is a reasonable amount
to pay for the 20 to 30 flights you'll need to solo...
(and later on, 'Gee, a gently used ASW 20 with a Cobra
trailer really is a steal at under $30,000.')

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'I understand tomorrow's soaring forecast looks great,
so I'll (pick one: take the day off/hire a babysitter)
to take care of the kids for you.'

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'Hi, Toots. My name is Prince Charming, I have my own
hair and teeth, neither of which needs to be stashed
on a bedside table over night. I own an air conditioned
motorhome with a 1 7/8 ball and I know my way around
the root end of the wing during assembly of the aforementioned
ASW-20. I will never tell you to quit flying gliders
and I will thrill to the dulcet tone of your voice
every time you say, 'There I was at 500 feet...' '

'I'd love to crew for you.'

Any more questions?

Judy



But, Judy!

Nobody says those things to the guys, either!
Maybe it takes a self-centered, insensitive clod to
be a glider pilot. Is there a descriptor for such
a female? If I knew one I wouldn't dare use it. (In
any case, I know it wouldn't fit you!)

Good reply, Judy
Keep that up and you will become a star in one of ZERO CINCO's cartoons, or
maybe you already are. The gal that is hot for the pool guy?

I think the question was concerning why more ladies don't seek out the thrill
of soaring, you know that spirit that just can't wait to go out and get in
trouble, just beyond gliding distance back home. Maybe they have more sense
than their male counterparts?
JJ Sinclair

I don't know why there aren't more women in soaring but the ones that are
involved are definitely the cream of the crop, best of the best, examples of
great people you could
ever hope to find! I still get a warm and cozy feeling when I remember at
the 15meter nationals in Tonopah when all the men were using a microphone
to talk and then Cindy had something to say, she didn't need one of those
wimpy microphones! Here's to Cindy and Judy and Marion and Doris and Jan
and all the rest of the wives and crew and pilots that ARE involved in our
great sport!

P.S. Is it too obvious that I'm single?

Gary Boggs and my faithful dog, Rotor.


"Nyal Williams" wrote in message
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At 08:24 10 January 2004, Judy Ruprecht wrote:
At 03:30 10 January 2004, Jim Culp wrote:
Questions regarding females and gliding:

1. Why do more females not fly gliders?
(Therein may be answer to why are there so few women
glider pilots.)

(And there followed a bunch of balderdash!)

Here, IMHO, is the reason there aren't more US women
in soaring: their parents/significant others/spouses/children/
friends are not apt to say...

'Oh yes, $75 - 100 per flight is a reasonable amount
to pay for the 20 to 30 flights you'll need to solo...
(and later on, 'Gee, a gently used ASW 20 with a Cobra
trailer really is a steal at under $30,000.')

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'I understand tomorrow's soaring forecast looks great,
so I'll (pick one: take the day off/hire a babysitter)
to take care of the kids for you.'

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'Hi, Toots. My name is Prince Charming, I have my own
hair and teeth, neither of which needs to be stashed
on a bedside table over night. I own an air conditioned
motorhome with a 1 7/8 ball and I know my way around
the root end of the wing during assembly of the aforementioned
ASW-20. I will never tell you to quit flying gliders
and I will thrill to the dulcet tone of your voice
every time you say, 'There I was at 500 feet...' '

'I'd love to crew for you.'

Any more questions?

Judy



But, Judy!

Nobody says those things to the guys, either!
Maybe it takes a self-centered, insensitive clod to
be a glider pilot. Is there a descriptor for such
a female? If I knew one I wouldn't dare use it. (In
any case, I know it wouldn't fit you!)

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..........

Judy Ruprecht wrote:
Here, IMHO, is the reason there aren't more US women
in soaring: their parents/significant others/spouses/children/
friends are not apt to say...

'Oh yes, $75 - 100 per flight is a reasonable amount
to pay for the 20 to 30 flights you'll need to solo...
(and later on, 'Gee, a gently used ASW 20 with a Cobra
trailer really is a steal at under $30,000.')

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'I understand tomorrow's soaring forecast looks great,
so I'll (pick one: take the day off/hire a babysitter)
to take care of the kids for you.'

'I'd love to crew for you.'

'Hi, Toots. My name is Prince Charming, I have my own
hair and teeth, neither of which needs to be stashed
on a bedside table over night. I own an air conditioned
motorhome with a 1 7/8 ball and I know my way around
the root end of the wing during assembly of the aforementioned
ASW-20. I will never tell you to quit flying gliders
and I will thrill to the dulcet tone of your voice
every time you say, 'There I was at 500 feet...' '

'I'd love to crew for you.'

Any more questions?

Judy

Hey Judy! How about this.

"I'd Love to crew for you. My name is not Prince Charming, but I do
have all my own hair (what is left of it, that is ;-) ) and teeth
(plural). The A/C in the coversion van works and I can put whatever
size ball is needed on the receiver hitch. I can assemble my 604 by
myself (Or the Zuni for closer performance matched playing) and you
would have your choice of turning the crank on the one-man rigger for
your ASW-20 or handling the now oh-so-light root end. What?!?! Quit
flying? Never! Just get a two place for when we get to old to safely
fly by ourselves. And I never get tired of hearing flying stories."

Heart going pitter patter yet? And to prove that I really am willing
to crew, I gave up a really good soaring day this last summer to chase
a friend on his silver distance flight. The day after I bumped the
state 200 KM speed record up by about 8 MPH. And the same day someone
else bumped my brand new record up another 8 MPH.

So, where do you want to fly this year?

Steve Leonard
Wichita, KS