Dual-Scholarship Opportunity Aims to ‘Diversify the Skies’

I Hart Flying Foundation and Girls Love to Fly are offering more than $18,000 in scholarships for flight training.

Friday, April 07, 2023 at 03:28 PM ET

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IHFF and GLTF have partnered to provide women in flight with dual-scholarship opportunities, as well as support mentorship, career advisement, and community building. [Credit: iStock]

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I Hart Flying Foundation (IHFF) and Girls Love to Fly (GLTF) have partnered to launch the "All Hands on Deck" scholarship to address the significant gender gap in aviation, where women constitute less than 5% of airline transport pilots.
The partnership offers over $18,000 in flight training scholarships, with individual awards ranging from $2,500 to $5,000, along with training packages and pilot gear.
Both non-profit organizations have a history of supporting women in aviation, having collectively awarded over $300,000 in scholarships, flight simulation, and training since 2017.
The application deadline for these scholarships is April 28, 2023, with winners to be announced on May 12.

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There are so few female airline transport pilots (ATPs), you can fit them all on an Airbus A380. That’s a sobering statistical visualization from a release put out by I Hart Flying Foundation (IHFF) and Girls Love to Fly (GLTF), announcing their scholarship partnership dedicated to providing support for women and girls interested in flight training and aviation careers.

As the aviation industry grows and diversifies, more opportunities are becoming available for women and girls who aspire to fly. However, barriers such as high training costs and gender biases persist, and women still represent less than 5 percent of all current ATP certificate holders, according to 2022 statistics released by the FAA.