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The all female flight deck. Where do i book?

Statics show that the female pilot population in the world is rising exponentially, seeing more flight decks being composed of females, doing amazing work.


Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche once said:

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it's our future that lays down the law of our today!


Shall I tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place everyday. Those who wait always wait to late.


Countries with the most female pilots in the world are as follows:


India: 12.4%

Ireland: 9.9%

South Africa: 9.8%

Canada: 6.9%

Germany: 6.9%

Australia: 5.8%

United States: 5.4%

United Kingdom: 4.7%


Come on girls, let's push up the numbers. Women make a better pilot, purely because of the obvious. The ability to multitask, plus attention to detail which has increased in the precise science of aviation


Boys, watch out. Start cooking, because the women are cooking up a storm in the modern flight deck worldwide


Andrew Lang once said:

Aviation is books, and you can cover a great deal of country in books. After all, knowledge is power. In this case GIRL POWER


What a woman wants is something that you're out of.

After all, there are only two ways of spreading light, to be a candle or the mirror that reflects it


Climb in and do the DIZZLE

Switch on the SHIZZLE

Then fly the JIZZLE





Captain Debbie Carter from Zimbabwe, Air Zimbabwe

GIRL BOSS

FIRST FEMALE CAPTAIN IN ZIMBABWE, DRAGONAIR AND CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS


She was Air Zimbabwe's first female captain

Her command was at the tender age of 25, on the BAE-146 registration Z-WPD (JONGWE)

She did approximately 1200 landings into Kariba airport FVKB Zimbabwe

This was a Captains ONLY landing, with gale force winds with the onshore breeze and on a very short runway. The brakes got very hot, causing major problems with the possibility of fire, which would lead to an evacuation and other complications

She was one of the ONLY pilot qualified and allowed to conduct this delicate approach.

The daily route was Harare, Kariba, Hwange, Victoria Falls, Hwange, Kariba, Harare


Debbie Carter in command



Air Zimbabwe BAE-146 Z-WPD

Kariba airport FVKB

Touchdown, speedbrakes fully deployed



Debbie Carter then got her command on the B737-200, as well as the B767 having also flown on the B707 fleet



Debbie Carter was in command of the Air Zimbabwe BAE-146 Z-WPD



Debbie Carter also flew extensively on the B707, typical routes were Harare, Frankfurt, Harare, London Gatwick, Harare London Heathrow


Compliments go to:

Captain Darry Tarr

Danai Taruvinga

Debbie Addison

Allen Addison

Mashonaland Flying Club MFC, Mt Hampden, Charles Prince airport (FVCP) , Harare Zimbabwe






B707 rotation and take-off



Air Zimbabwe's BAE-146 approach and landing into Hwange International airport Zimbabwe

Debbie Carter was operating the Air Zimbabwe Flame Lily holiday flights, which catered for travellers from Europe, mainly Germany, Greece and England



Air Zimbabwe's BAE-146 Z-WPD approach and landing into Hwange International airport Zimbabwe, on its way to Victoria Falls



Debbie Carter also was in command of the Dragonair Lockheed Tristar L1011 into Hong-Kong's Kai Tak

Again a Captains ONLY approach and landing


Debbie Carter executing the Hong-Kong Kai Tak Checkerboard approach on the L-1011

IGS approach runway 13 (RWY 13) the "Checkerboard approach"

Gear down, flaps down, landing checklist

Runway in sight

Final turn onto short final

Cleared to land





Debbie Carter was the FIRST woman to fly a Cathay Pacific Airways aircraft

Yes, the Zimbabwean woman from deepest darkest Africa, from the Mashonaland Flying Club 🇿🇼



L1011 Checkerboard approach on the final turn inbound



Debbies Carter flying this aeroplane, L1011 Cathay Pacific Airways

She was conducting her first IGS approach and landing into KAi Tak Hong-Kong

Photo credits go to her husband Captain Stevo Carter Cathay Pacific Airways



Short final on the approach to land into Kai Tak Hong-Kong



Greaser landing, some serious GIRL POWER



Lockhead Tristar, L1011, Cathay Pacific Airways Hong-Kong Kai Tak on the hard stand



Debbie Carter completed six months training with Dragonair Hong-Kong before she transferred to Cathay Pacific Airways.

Cathay Pacific Airways did not want anything to do with FEMALE PILOTS

She passed ALL the extensive training with top instructors on the Lockhead Tristar L1011


Get this

Cathay Pacific Airways Chief pilot tried to chuck her off the crew transport one day, because the crew bus was not ever designed for a FEMALE PILOT

"Get off, not for AIR HOSTESSES he said", and was concerned she would get lost

Debbie Carter was the Captain, going to her own aeroplane


Debbie Carter is a HERO of modern aviation, and the pinnacle of the "ALL FEMALE FLIGHT DECK"



Liberty is a beloved discipline


Ask yourself, is man the only blunder of God, or is God the only blunder to man? Depends for most people, they switch this around and throughout life, as and how life shapes through their inadequacies.


As they rise, so too they fall. It is how rise that is more important than how you fall. It is in rising up after the fall that determines your true character


Remain humble. What goes up must come down. Monitor your way up very carefully, as it is on the way down you shall pass those you crossed during your climb on the way up


"Positive climb, gear up"



Where there is smoke there is fire


Fan SMOKE, it becomes a SPARK

Fan a SPARK, it becomes a FLAME

Fan a FLAME, it becomes a FIRE

Fan a FIRE, it becomes a big roaring BLAZE


The SMOKE



As you dream, your solitude becomes like a fat pig


They will laugh, they will slander, but never forget how delicious a fat pig is, though it consumes everything


It will consume at least two hundred pounds of uncooked flesh in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute


Be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. Hence the expression, "As greedy as a pig"


The FLAME



Those who look skywards do so for a reason, if not for any reason at all


The dream is realised


The FIRE



Bye bye aeroplane, see you in the flight deck and at the controls



Then one day it happens, no matter where you are, Gran Canaria or the Netherlands


In your ORANGE and YELLOW vest


YOUR FIRST SOLO


"I believe I can FLY"



See yourself inside of your dream, doing what you were born to do


The roaring BLAZE




In writing about progress and poverty, the blogger dipped his pen into the tears of the human race, racing and with the celestial clearness he wrote down what he conceived to be eternal truths


Humble beginnings, make the road the sweetest journey to success. Whilst you power up, negativity prevails, hence leaving a bitter tongue from sucking some sour sweets


As beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder


So, is the taste so sweet in the mouth of the passionate dreamaker, passion, soul searcher, goal breaker, daring son of a bitch


The REALITY


Remember your mother, who encouraged you, who believed in you



YES I DID IT



Like a ROCKET

I need to go FASTER

I need to work HARDER

I need to work SMARTER

I need to maintain FOCUS till reaching top SPEED

SPEED is what I NEED


From the START I drive with the arms

To go FAST I turn on the AFTERBURNERS

To transition then I start going for the POWER

Keep FOCUS till I get to TOP SPEED





If you do not listen to your soul, you die as you live


Every soul shall end in silence, but silence never dies


Earth is the frozen voice of God, many seldom hear it


The world is old

The years are old

The Gods are older

There is no today

There are no days

There are no weeks

There are no months

There is only now


What are you doing about it NOW


The past is like a funeral gone by

The future comes like an unwelcome guest

I do not hunger for a well stored mind

I only wish to live my life

I wish to find my heart

For my heart to be in unison with all mankind

To fly is to do exactly that


As you can give me the error of life anytime

At least i have something to work with

It is full of unsown seeds

Seed bursting with possibility

Rather keep your sterile truth within your filthy hearts


Things cannot always go your way

It is with the way things go, that you grow

Learn to accept in silence all the failure

The minor aggravations

Cultivate the the gift of tenacity to your advantage

Work in silence

Let your progress be your voice

Consume your smoke of failure with a draught of hard work

So that those who watch will be annoyed with the dust and soot of success

Let their complaints be your unconditional praise




There are two kinds of men on earth:


Those who LIFT

Those who LEAN

Those who LEAD

Those who FOLLOW

Those who TALK

Those who DO

Like everything, there ONLY TWO things in life

YES, NO

TALK, DO



Anyone can dream, it is FREE

Moving your dream into being is a choice

It brings pain in its process

The rewards are SWEET

Dreams without action are SOUR

Dreams without action are just dreams

Everybody has them

Hard work is what separate success from failure

Working really hard is what successful people do

Better the SWEET taste of SUCCESS

Than the BITTER tongue of FAILURE like of sucking SOUR SWEETS



Do not be afraid to act on your dreams, soar like an eagle, and do not let anything hold you down


Welcome on board my dream




V1 decision speed

VR Rotate



When you take that leap of faith, do so in spectacular fashion, let your success be your voice


PITCH for ATTITUDE


ATTITUDE determines your ALTITUDE




Knowledge is the father of all wisdom, as it was said, an expert is an expert who tells you he knows more and more, though he actually has less and less.


The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool


The PONDERING old man



It is better to trade beauty to live your dream, rather than being a bird in gilded cage.


Mission is to cling onto the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown.



Then wear those bars with pride


Fruits of SUCCESS are SWEET



Attitude determines altitude, it is true with everything that you do


During your climb to the top, do so with power, attitude and speed and remain humble


If you dream it, you can achieve it, so hold on to the ride


POWER ATTITUDE SPEED TRIM



When you get up there, flying with the birds and mother nature herself, keep all your options open, exploring every possibility as you go.


Aviate, navigate, communicate and enjoy the fruits of your success whilst remaining humble


Pull others up along the way, remaining humble as you do, as you will meet those you past on the way up during your descent


Climb with pride, fall with dignity


Constant monitoring, polishing, training whilst remaining consitent


BIGGER

BETTER

FASTER

STRONGER



Maintain focus, remain in full control not only of your destination, but your destiny



Never be afraid to create and invent yourself

Never ask of money spent

Where the spender thinks it went

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent, what she did with every cent


Remember the land was ours before the land's

She was our land more than a hundred years, before we were people with dreams


Do what you are meant to do

Be all you can be

Happiness makes in height for what it lacks in length, happiness is dissolved in something complete and great


No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person, only your own

Hence off your insecurities your demise shall fully arise


I love trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live, than other things do


I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate, as of the hate of the male dominated world disapproving the growth of the female pilot population



Nobody sees

Nobody knows

What is inside of your heart


That's how it is

That's how it goes

We are a secret and can be exposed

That's when we UNCOVER


GOOD things come to those who believe

BETTER things to those who are patient

BEST things to those who do not GIVE UP






It is free to dream


It takes blood, sweat and tears to turn them into a reality


Remember, the dream only exists inside of your head, birthed from your soul, fueled by your hearts passion


Only you act upon them as now one sees them they way you do. The truth is, they never will






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