Association of German female pilots
| Association of German Female Pilots (VDP) |
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| purpose | Strengthening the self-image as a pilot, promoting female pilots and offering professional pilots a platform, maintaining tradition and information about the history of female pilots |
| Chair: | Heike Käferle (President) |
| Establishment date: | April 6, 1968 |
| Number of members: | about 300 |
| Seat : | Muenster |
| Website: | pilotinnen.net |
The Association of German Female Pilots e. V. (VDP for short) is an association for German professional and private pilots . It has about 300 members.
Foundation and history
The association was founded on April 6, 1968 at Gut Petersau near Worms by nine female pilots. The best-known members and co-founders include Elly Beinhorn , who set a number of long-haul flight records in the 1930s, including the circumnavigation of the world in solo flight , and Hanna Reitsch , the world's first female helicopter and jet pilot and record holder in more than 40 disciplines of all classes and aircraft types.
Another prominent member was Vera von Bissing , who joined the association when she was still old. Today the glider aerobatic pilot Andrea Fenzau-Lehmann belongs to the association.
The club's logo shows Edesse's Golden Rose , a previous award for the best women's team in a historic powered flight rally.
aims
The goals of the association are:
- Bringing women together in aviation and helping them see themselves as pilots
- To create offers for further training for sport and private pilots, e.g. B. Danger briefing, briefing abroad, glacier flying
- To offer professional pilots a platform to present their concerns
- Promote female pilots
- Organization of rallies and fly-ins for contacts and competitive experience
- Maintenance of tradition and information about the history of the first female pilots
Club work
The Association of German Female Pilots works with the German Aero Club and AOPA-Germany and is a member of the international female pilots association Federation of European Women Pilots (FEWP). They are also supported by the Cockpit Association .
She is present as an exhibitor at Aero Friedrichshafen .
See also
literature
- Louise Rose Jones: The Women Leading a Flying Revolution. In: Airliner World , March 2020, pp. 41–48
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data and facts. Association of German female pilots, accessed on June 22, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Flowerpot won. In: Der Spiegel. 23/1969.
- ↑ Queens of the skies from A to Z: biographies of famous female pilots, balloonists, airmen, skydivers and astronauts . GRIN Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-65800-8 , p. 87 .
- ↑ Pressenews Luftsportverband Schleswig-Holstein 2010. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ AOPA Letter 06/2008. Retrieved January 13, 2011 .
- ↑ Portrait at the Aerokurier. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Conversation between the German press agency and Hedwig Sensen in Focus online on September 5, 2009: Women are only gradually conquering the cockpit of men. Retrieved January 14, 2011 .
- ↑ The managing director Heike Käferle wants to get more women to fly. on: nw-news.de , July 12, 2010.
- ↑ Female pilots: A minority in the cockpit. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: stern.de November 24, 2004.
- ↑ Interview with Heidi Galland, Honorary President of the VDP on September 18, 2004
- ↑ Still a man's business. In: The world. August 24, 2004.
- ↑ The Bold Sisters of Icarus. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. August 3, 2006
- ^ AOPA Germany: Minutes of the general meeting on August 10, 2002. Retrieved on January 13, 2011 .
- ^ Website of the Federation of European Women Pilots
- ↑ List of exhibitors at the fair on April 9, 2010. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 6, 2010 ; Retrieved January 13, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ AeroBrief 23.2010: AERO 2010: Flying Women and other trade fair highlights in Friedrichshafen. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 14, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
