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The Number of Canadian Female Professional Pilots Drops to 1990 Levels

March 6, 2021March 3, 2021

COVID Upsets the Canadian Female Pilot Population Uninterrupted Growth from 4.79% in 1980 to 8.15% in 2020 Working closely with Transport Canada for a decade, the Institute for Women of Aviation Worldwide (iWOAW) has compiled a research paper titled ‘What Four Decades of Canadian Statistics Reveal about Women Progress in Aviation’. The content is now available to the public on iWOAW.org. Published statistics about the state of Canadian women progress in the male-dominated sectors of …

Win one of five copies X-Plane 11, the world’s most advanced desktop flight simulator, during #WOAW20

March 1, 2021January 10, 2020

X-Plane 11 is the world’s most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers, and it offers the most realistic flight model available. It is not a game, but an engineering tool that can be used to predict the flying qualities of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft with incredible accuracy. X-Plane 11 includes 19 aircraft in the default installation, spanning the aviation industry and its history. The full scenery package covers the Earth in stunning resolution from 74° …

Easy last minute gifts to WOAW anyone

March 1, 2021December 16, 2019

If you running out of time or ideas to select the right gift to put a smile on the face of someone special and deserving this holiday, please consider the following suggestions. I Owe You Notes Whether you are or you know a pilot, you have the power to give a young woman or a not-so-young woman the gift of a lifetime – a Fly It Forward® flight. But there is more. In 2020, Fly …

Girls Can Win a $10,000 Scholarship When They Report Their Fly It Forward® Flight in 2020

March 1, 2021August 26, 2019

The Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide (iWOAW) is proud to announce that the value for the top Fly It Forward® scholarship in 2020 will be $10,000 CAD. Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, the global aviation awareness week for girls of all ages, will turn 10 years old in March 2020. To mark the milestone, iWOAW will give $10,000 CAD towards flight training to the 2020 winner of the Second Step Challenge thanks to a …

Turkey proclaims the week of March 8 as Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week

March 1, 2021March 9, 2018

On February 28th, 2018, the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) inscribed celebrating Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week as one of the country’s directives to foster gender balance in the aviation industry. The main mission of the DGCA, the civil aviation authority of Turkey that sets up rules, enforces the rules and checks the implementations, is to increase sector-based capacity, productivity, and aviation activities as well as ensure that aviation activities are carried out …