The Flight School Association of North America (FSANA) has launched a survey to learn more about female participation in flight training.
“The female demographic is highly under-represented in the pilot and aerospace industry,” officials note, adding, “female engagement in aviation starts with interest, recruitment, and promotion.”
FSANA officials note there are limited statistics that track directly related to percentages of women seeking flight training.
“FAA and industry data certainly exists and can be referenced that indicates percentages of women who are certificated at the student pilot certificate level or higher, but the measure of how many women are entering flight training has been more difficult to gauge,” officials note in the introduction to the survey.
“FSANA is interested in capturing data points which will help the industry to better understand the female demographic students with respect to flight training,” officials add.
FSANA officials are asking those in the aviation community to complete the short survey with as “detailed answers as you are able to help us gauge general trends and perceptions.”
You can take the survey here.
I’m currently training 3 female pilots and wanted to complete the survey, but they said I already completed it when I clicked on the link. So I navigated to the Flight School of North America web site and there is no survey link on their site, plus some of the links are empty. Not so sure about this organization.
Something fishy here, I had the same response when I signed on to the survey sight, “Sorry but you have already taken the survey “
I’m guessing General Aviation News received a link and published it, but the link was setup for one-time use. This is often the case when you email a list of recipients; each email address gets a unique link that’s only good for the one completion. It’s a setting that can be updated so the link is good for multiple people to use.
That makes sense, Amy, but it is strange there is no link at the FSNA website.