Female Student Pilots – Barriers to Completing Flight Training

Men and women are different. But knowing how they are different when it comes to flight training is not well known. I enjoyed statistics courses in college and graduate school, so I decided to conduct a mail survey to find out about the differences. The findings are summarized in this article.

The idea for the survey came from being invited by the 99s to be the keynote speaker for their breakfast held at AOPA Expo 2008 in San Jose, CA. But I wondered, what could I speak about that could possibly be relevant to this group of women aviators? 

A review of FAA Airman statistics showed that over the prior ten years, women consistently...