It is always interesting to see how our aviation certification and certificates held data shapes up with respect to how many female pilots there are. When we look at the percentage of female pilots as a percentage the overall pilot population, we see that 2024 again saw it rise, ever so slightly though.

When we look at the details at a granular data level, we see that since 2011 we have increase total pilot certificates held by females by 221%. Based on the percentage of total pilots, it doesn’t look like that much progress is being made, but part of that is that the total number of overall pilot certificates held is also going up.

If we consider that in years past, the majority of our pilot population was male, but as the pilot population ages, it is likely that in upcoming years our younger generation of pilots who are female will begin to represent a larger overall percentage of our pilot population. The simple fact is that our aging male portion of the pilot population will become a smaller percentage of the overall pilot population as it dies off.

With that said, we still have a significantly lower percentage of our pilot population entrants every year represented by female pilots than male ones. The climb in the percentage of female pilots entering certification is a slow one.