Trying to come up with a Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week event?

Guidelines for events

• Events must be designed specifically for girls and women.
• Events must aim to raise girls and women’s awareness of the opportunities that aviation has to offer them and hopefully introduce them to the joys of flying.
• Make your event original and interesting and share your plans with the local media.
• Flying events must make safety the number one priority.
• Event report must be received by March 17, 2012, midnight, to qualify the participants for the prizes.

Outside of this guidelines, let your imagination soar. Any type of aircraft certified for the transportation of passengers, legally registered, and properly insured is acceptable. You know your local community, your local customs, your local infrastructure, and your local limitations better than anyone else, find a way to create an interesting and exciting event that will be beneficial to your community.

Ideas for events

• Ask local pilots to volunteer their time and airplane to give girls and women rides. Once you have that list, invite girls and women to fly. Coordinate timing and communications between pilots and interested female first time flyers.
• A popular $100 hamburger destination in your area? Invite all pilots to fly to lunch. The catch? They must bring along at least one female first time flyer.
• Invite pilots for a free barbecue. The catch? They introduced local girls and women to flying.
• Organize a special day at the airport for girls and women. Include local organizations, local aviation businesses, local aviation schools, and maybe the military. Don’t forget other local businesses such as restaurants, photo & video stores, etc. Invite prominent local Women Of Aviation for photo ops and autograph signing. Consider providing promotional or free flights as well.
• Establish a promotion to reward your customers who fly aircraft for introducing female first time flyers (e.g., free or discounted fuel for owners of a specific type of aircraft, discount to aircraft renters, etc.)
• Offer special access to flight schools for girls and women. Offer free sit-in in ground school sessions, free simulator flying, free ride-along during a training flight (the flight should be a normal flight with no abnormal maneuvers such as stalls, etc.) as well as free or highly discounted introductory flights.
• Offer a free aviation movie screening with a drawing for free flights or other incentives to take the next step. Consider the Breaking Through The Clouds and FlyAbout documentaries, as an example, or do an internet search for specific famous Women Of Aviation movies.
• Invite Women Of Aviation to speak about her activity at your local school, organization, business, or special group.
• Organize an all-female flight (crew, ATC, support personnel) to a specific destination. Invite local girls and women to see the flight takeoff and land.
• A day at work for girls and women. Provide access to your business or organization inner workings and showcase your female employees (factories, research facilities, aviation support services, military base, etc.).
• Prepare a special exhibit showcasing the local Women Of Aviation and display at the airport terminal, local FBOs, lobby of your business, etc.
• Organize a conference showcasing prominent Women Of Aviation.
• Free or discounted entry fees at museums, factory visits, etc.

Tell us about your planned event for the upcoming Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week (March 5-11 2012). Please complete the form to explain your project. We provide automated registration for all events.