Are female pilots as good?

If you need a high visuo-spatial skill to be a "fighter jock", women who are normally behind men in spatial ability often catch up to men , if given meaningful visuo-spatial interventions. So I once read....they are even better at parking cars.Therefore there should be no reason why they cant be pilots.

Besides they can be flying transport aircraft or delivering aircraft.

It has possibly to do with attitude. Tell the girls they can do it and they perform much better.

Originally Posted by legoboy

Serious question.
No sexim, just pure out, are they as good as their male counterparts?

China seems to have a larger percent of female pilots as opposed to counties like Russia and the US.

Most Chinese females are limited to trainer-fighters or transport plane pilots rather than fighter pilots. Men still play the weapons.

There is no physical or phycological reason why women would not perform just as well as men as fighter pilots, they just haven't really been given a fair chance to prove that yet.

Over decade ago, I watched a discovery program where they showed USAF trainees in the centrifuge. The women seem to do better when closing in on 9'gs (or more). Several men passed out at 7+ gs. It seems that the blood flow to the brain or the distance blood has to travel to the brain is less in women so they avoid black-out a bit longer.

Originally Posted by FarkTypeSoldier

Most Chinese females are limited to trainer-fighters or transport plane pilots rather than fighter pilots. Men still play the weapons.

I would like to add on... Just saw a news flash today:

Female pilots trained for J-10|Politics|chinadaily.com.cn

PLAAF trains its first batch of J-10 female pilots.

Originally Posted by legoboy

serious question.
No sexim, just pure out, are they as good as their male counterparts?

China seems to have a larger percent of female pilots as opposed to counties like russia and the us.

no!!!!!

Originally Posted by plawolf

There is no physical or phycological reason why women would not perform just as well as men as fighter pilots, they just haven't really been given a fair chance to prove that yet.

There are phsycological reasons, but mostly it is just desire, to a man, you dream of flying like a bird from the time you are an egg, I just don't see that desire in most women. When given the opportunity, women are quite capable of driving an airplane around the sky, in the USAF there is a strong component of gender/racial preferences to leadership, which in the USAF means fighter pilot or at least command pilot, and lots of money has been spent to implement these programs. Lots of very capable pilots are shunted aside because they are white males, and also ran talent is boosted to the top in order to achieve equality. I am not against equality, read my thoughts on the naming of the Chines CV, I think it should have the name of a heroin in the Chinese culture.

Originally Posted by Kurt

It has possibly to do with attitude. Tell the girls they can do it and they perform much better.

Yes it does have to do with attitude, but no you can't just tell the girls they can do it, and yes I have 7 daughters, and yes I was taking pictures of another aircraft in formation with my aircraft and asked a female reporter to fly the airplane which she did for several minutes, and yes I was telling her she was doing a fine job, but she decided she shouldn't be doing that and became hysterical in a matter of 33 seconds or so. I was sitting in the left seat at the controls, so no danger, no sweat, airplane straight and level at 2500 ft, perfect weather, and a jock type girl?

It could be something to do with spatial recognition abilities. It is acknowledged that men generally have better spatial awareness than women.

Originally Posted by legoboy

China seems to have a larger percent of female pilots as opposed to counties like Russia and the US.

In the USAF as late as 2006 there were 568 (4.1 percent) female pilots and 210 (4.6 percent) female navigators & approxmiatly 600 enlisted aircrew.

That's just the USAF. How many female aircrew does China have? i.e. pilots, navigators and enlisted aircrew? thank you.

Just thought I'll add these :

B-2 bombers have had at least 2 female pilots - Alice K. Moore, Laura Meyer (and probably more we haven't heard of)
F-22 first female pilots was - Jammie Jamieson (July 2008?)

Eurofighter, Rafale have had their 1st female pilots, add to that women have been flying F-16 & F-15 for sometime.

Originally Posted by Air Force Brat

Yes it does have to do with attitude, but no you can't just tell the girls they can do it, and yes I have 7 daughters, and yes I was taking pictures of another aircraft in formation with my aircraft and asked a female reporter to fly the airplane which she did for several minutes, and yes I was telling her she was doing a fine job, but she decided she shouldn't be doing that and became hysterical in a matter of 33 seconds or so. I was sitting in the left seat at the controls, so no danger, no sweat, airplane straight and level at 2500 ft, perfect weather, and a jock type girl?

A guy who can't fly will more likely rate himself OK, while a girl is usually trained to be overcritical and risk averse. These problems are part of genderization and are very weakly related to sex. The whole spatial capability issue is a cultural gender training thing.

Originally Posted by Kurt

The whole spatial capability issue is a cultural gender training thing.

Considering that the cultural training starts at infancy, and is 99.9% prevalent, it's effectively an innate characteristic.