Hi can we get to the tabs on
526ND the Preflight checklist?
Is a methodical process
we got about 12 in that wing, so I
think we should top off, yeah? Patricia
McCracken in her flight instructor.
We're good. Yeah we're
getting ready for a flight at Mycare
Aviation Flight School in Broomfield.
I actually came to this airport like
every year on my birthday to watch
planes fly when I was growing up
and now she's flying them.
The first stage, with the
goal to take off for the big
commercial airline.
Someday it's really inspiring to
see a lot of women pilots going
through the process and getting
all the way to the airlines,
and it's really.
It'd be really cool to fly
under a female captain one day.
Let's see her be her mentality flight
instructor Brittany Becker says is working.
I think it's modeled right.
You see more women in aviation.
So little girls are flying
commercial airlines and they're
peeping their head through the
cockpit and they see a female there.
And they're like, wait? I can
do this at this flight school.
They've seen a 28% jump in women
students in the last three years.
In 2020, around 14% of all student
pilots were women up nearly 5% from 2017.
A growth trend seen on many levels,
including at colleges.
I want to work on my commercial
and getting my CFI this year.
Natalie Grammar is a senior at MSU,
Denver and President for their chapter
of Women in Aviation International
in just two years of being around,
they're at 75 members.
Honestly has to do just with communication,
something Sarah Bauermeister,
who runs a chapter of the same
organization at AIMS Community College,
says he's working the school I was
at wasn't super supportive of females
and just being in that environment
afterwards I was like I don't want
anyone to ever feel that way.
I want everyone to feel welcome.
Whether you're a male,
female, anything like that,
it's just the plane doesn't care who you are.
A message sent at a time where commercial
airlines struggled to keep up with demand.
The FAA requires pilots to retire at 65,
nearly half of the big airline pilots around
now must retire within the next 15 years.
The amount of new pilots under 30 coming
into the industry sits at just 7%,
which a recent report says is not
enough to keep up with retirements.
Welcome to new hires.
Congratulations to everybody.
Still big airlines are trying
to keep up new captains.
You are now beginning the journey of being.
The captain that you always wanted to
be that's Captain Mary Ann Shaffer,
system chief pilot for united
at a captaining ceremony in Denver.
She told us women are a key
part in helping fill the gap.
Having more women enter flight
training and coming into the airlines
is a must because we've proven
that we need to tap into all of
our population, not just the men.
Well, she has seen more women
come up through the ranks,
she says there needs to be
more in the next decade.
Overall, she says.
United intends to hire a
minimum of 10,000 pilots
you need to. Have a robust pilot
supply to increase aviation and access
of air travel across our country.
And I can tell you when I was in high school,
I didn't know that there was an option for
me to be standing here in this uniform,
as the chief pilot for United Airlines.
But if other people can see that,
especially the young girls,
maybe they'll enter our profession.
His back. Measuring between your seats
and As for those just starting out,
starting a takeoff roll,
it's at the very beginning.
You know you're just checking everything,
making sure everything is looking good.
Students like Patricia
say the sky is the limit,
and then you realize you hit
rotation speed and you pull off
the ground and it's just like wow.
United Airlines also recently launched
their Aviat Academy in Arizona,
hoping to train about
5000 new pilots by 2030.
Specifically over there with at
least half of them being women or
people of color and Kyle Alex.
This is just one airline in particular.
I've covered bits and pieces of
the pilot shortage in the past,
the one of the main things that I'm told
is that cost is one of the biggest barriers.
Different organizations like
Women in Aviation International,
they've opened up scholarships
recently to kind of help with that.