Millie Limbaugh
Posted on 04/19/2018 12:55:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: There’s an op-ed in the Washington Post today. It’s by Beverly Weintraub. And the headline: “‘Sully’ Was Just a Hero. Why Label the Southwest Captain a ‘Female Pilot’?” Beverly Weintraub — by the way, this is cool. She’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the New York Daily News editorial board. She’s a member of the Ninety-Nines. Do you know what that is? You probably don’t. It’s an international organization of women pilots.
Millie Limbaugh
And she’s on the board of directors of the Air Race Classic. My mom was a Ninety-Nine. (interruption) Yeah, my mom was a pilot. We had an old Cessna 182 Skylane for a few years when I was growing up, and my mom learned to fly the thing — and she was good. And, you know, my dad — in addition to being a lawyer — was heavily involved in aviation. He loved it. And the Ninety-Nines do this every year. I don’t know if they still do. But they did a national race of women pilots racing Left Coast to Right Coast.
And they would stop — all of them stop — at various airports across the country, and Cape Girardeau with a little… (chuckles) Well, I think we had the new runway. Anyway, we had a 3,000-foot runway and here they come. These are single-engine, maybe twin-engine, but they’re not jets. And they’re women pilots. Maybe their husbands are with them, maybe a female copilot or whatever, and they’d fly in. Every year we’d go out there and meet ’em and various members of the town would meet ’em.
We’d take ’em all to dinner the night they spent overnight and then take ’em back to the airport the next day and wave at ’em as they took off on the next leg of the race. The Ninety-Nines! I haven’t heard of the Ninety-Nines since… It’s been 25 years since anybody talked about the Ninety-Nines. Beverly Weintraub is a Ninety-Nine. So I just had to point that out. Anyway, she’s upset that the… By the way, we didn’t refer here to the pilot of the Southwest jet as a woman.
I think I referred to her yesterday as “a bad ass pilot.” But Beverly Weintraub is upset… Captain Sully, the guy that landed the U.S. Airways jet right there in the Hudson River? Nobody called him “male pilot.” They just called him a “pilot.” Why do we call this babe “female pilot”? Why do we have on to put “female” in front of it? Well, you can take a stab at answering that yourself. What do you think the reason is, Mr. Snerdley? Do you think sexism is the reason why “female” — and, by the way, it’s the Drive-By Media that did it.
It’s not… She not lashing out at any particular group. It was throughout the media that the “woman pilot” was referred to just like that: A “woman” pilot or “female” pilot. I think it has to do with the numbers. There aren’t nearly as many female airline pilots today as there are male, and the number of female pilots who successfully navigate problems in the air and safely land a plane that’s under distress, it’s not very many. So it’s unique.
But I don’t think anybody means anything by it, do you? I don’t think anybody was… Nobody was cutting her down. Nobody was certainly not affording her respect. I think the fact that she was identified as “a female pilot” actually was intended as a… I don’t want to say “compliment,” but I think it’s pretty close to that. It certainly wasn’t to impugn, and I don’t think it was to belittle. But it is a sign of the sensitivity that is out there.
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I also find it unnecessary to say someone is "female" or "Christian" or a "boy scout" when something bad happens because you know those terms are used to belittle and deride, not descriptive...
Female pilots fly the aircraft while doing their hair and makeup.....
“”There aren’t nearly as many female airline pilots today as there are male, and the number of female pilots who successfully navigate problems in the air and safely land a plane that’s under distress, it’s not very many. So it’s unique. “”
He answered the question the only way possible...Unique and rare - that’s female pilots. Why do the military ones always get referred to as “female”? Same reason...
She’s an “Aviator”. Nuff said.
One pic I saw while on decent, showed the cowling, before it tore off, hanging over the wing near the root. That’s gotta mess with the handling, and indeed, the article stated that the plane went into a 41 degree roll straight away.
This wasn’t a flame out, or compressor stall, situation. Flight dynamics were compromised.
I’ve always heard this as:
1-Aviate.
2-Navigate.
3.Communicate.
This irony is probably lost on ole Bev due to her "outrage" of labeling women...women.
Eight decades after Amelia Earhart made history, let's celebrate today's women pilots
Not to mention...she and her partner recently crashed an airplane...(partner was pilot, she was passenger of co-owned aeroplane).
NTSB: Fuel issue, loss of engine power led to plane crash-landing in Meriden last month
Tammy is a good pilot. I recall when she came through the flight simulators and ...
Thank you, very good to hear some inside scoop.
And so much the better when it is positive.
Yeah that’s cute and all but the audio with ATC has her talking.
“en route from New York to Dallas, Shults calmly informed air traffic control about the problems and arranged for emergency crews to meet her plane at its new destination.”
It is unusual for the captain, the flyer, to bother with comm in an emergency.....highly unusual
Pilot. Not woman pilot. Agreed.
I guess not all snowflakes are college students. I doubt that many males are fascinated by by hero pilots just because they are females.
The interest factor is entirely due to fact that there are so few of them. Not every human has the abitities to become a competent one. The newsworthiness is the rarity, not the sex.
I am not female but I have always envied pilots who are able to dominate monster aircraft like the 747.
When the news circulated that there were a half dozen female pilots who routinely fly C5As worlwide for the Air Force I made it a point of finding videos of them doing their jobs, and wishing that I had had the right stuff to even try.
The fact that thousands of men do the same thing, just doesn't seem as newsworthy to me.
The author is offended that the pilot was recognized in the press as a female pilot.
The author also belongs to a club that is only for female pilots.
Are logical disconnects a female thing? /s
I’m offended that everyone seems so offended these days...
...what a mess our children will deal with.
It has gotten pretty ridiculous.
I like to offend people by not being offended by anything.
It works very well! lol
Not for a female...they’ll talk all the way through the troubles they are handling(emotional reinforcement) even handling well! Her communications were working so she chatted!
>>>Somebody, somewhere, is always offended by something.<<<
You are so right, and it’s getting very tiresome. Sigh.
Correct
Correct. Nicely stated.
So, Tammie Jo WAS the pilot. We DO know the co-pilot’s name. Why can’t you just admit you were mistaken?
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