It's not that I haven't been treated with respect, kindness, and an attitude of complete welcome and friendliness, I was just wondering how many females are actually out there. sort of a census thing. it seems a little odd to me that a sport/hobby comes along, one that is inherently without bias towards either gender, and apparently it holds zero appeal for 99.9% of those lacking a Y chromosome.  

their loss.

Hi Aeroluxifer, welcome to IntoFPV!

We actually have a couple of women regulars here on this forum. I haven't ran into any women at my home field RC park yet (other than "moms" who are there as part of a family unit and typically aren't the ones at the sticks). Onigiri on youtube shared an interesting theory on how to get more women into the hobby but it's a long term plan.



Either way, I agree with you. This hobby really doesn't have any good reasons why it should be gender specific.

Welcome aeroluxifer!

I am new to FPV quads myself, but not new to RC - have been excited about it for over 30 years. In that time, I have seen relatively few women involved in the hobby, but I am happy to see that changing in school robotics programs and similar.

As you correctly note, there is nothing inherent to enjoying RC models that has anything to do with gender (or anything else, for that matter) beyond an interest in the models themselves.

I may be wrong, but it does seem that there are more women involved in the FPV quad side of things than in other aspects of the hobby (i.e. traditional line of sight RC)... so there's that, I guess?

In addition to Onigiri above, I am aware of Juli FPV: https://www.youtube.com/user/UltraNusch

She flies in the Drone Champions League in Europe for the ImmersionRC team. Cool!

I have always done anything and everything I can think of to make the RC hobby approachable to anyone with an interest. I believe that most people in the hobby do, as well, but that may be naive. I would certainly welcome more women participants in the hobby, it's great fun and everyone who desires should feel welcome to participate.

My wife enjoys flying my powerup FPV planes, but they are really easy to fly and designed to 'crash' on landing. She is penny-wise so building a new $250 quad every 6 months or less will simply not translate as fun in her vocab! Honestly I kind of thrashed my tinywhoop before she ever got a chance to try flying in acro mode. Replacement parts from myRCmart shipped from china via DHL to Germany, but it will probably be at least another month before they get here to South Africa... I have enough parts on order to rebuild a few times as long as the FC & camera remain undamaged so with any luck I will get her flying properly, soon.

thanks to all of you who - not only took my query seriously - but also took the time to answer it to the best of your abilities/experience(s). While I have yet to actually meet an individual (sometime backyard DIYer to sponsored pro who has long since forgotten his actual parentally-bestowed name, and everybody else who resides on that spectrum between those two) involved in quadcopters that identifies as female. the only theory i can come up with (and feel free to crap all over this) is that, in many ways, piloting a quad (esp. FPV) is an experience closely analogous to video (or, to a lesser extent) computer games. And, for whatever reason, I - and most women I know - find video games slightly more interesting than reading the phonebook. [Obviously, exceptions abound. It's more of a wild guess than a working theory.]
today's drones could be what anthropologists of the far off future as a kind of 'missing link'. the actual bridge with biology on one side and technology on the other.
and i've completely forgotten everything i meant to include in this post.

i may be a gender pioneer in the drone world, but i better start remembering to take my ADD meds if I actually want to be a positive force for potential female fliers...

I guess my two computer game addicted daughters must be an exception to the rule then!

I see no reason for any difference between the sexes when it comes to multirotors and FPV. It's a minority interest, for sure and requires an interest in flight and the technical aspects of the craft themselves. I'd have to say that the only reason there are far fewer women in the hobby is purely down to the women themselves conforming to a false sterotype that they have been conditioned into believing.

Thankfully, this kind of stereotyping is something that is becoming less and less accepted or encouraged.

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Because it involves technical stuff that generally is percieved as boy toys.
Simple analogy "few" years back during the masters time, we had around 303 colleagues on the year of which 3 were girls... There was no selection like boys only...
Same here flying is one part taking stuffapart is other side of the hobby.
As ive taken a number of girls on a short ride, none of them wanted to know more - ok i get it im not marlon brando, but still... Moving pictures good try it meh...
Ive had my wife flying zmr long time ago in angle ... As long as i was staring like hypnoyized she flew, landed and passed the tx "have fun"
Ive bought a nano to my niece as she was fascinated by quads... 2 weeks later imet her again, have you flown? Once then it had to berecharged and iforgot - ergo moved to something else..
And then we have a foum like here - friendly inclusive without stupid questions stil i think ratio is like 98-99%

Just to be fair bycar mechanic is a girl an shecan't belive i only know where the diesel and wipers fluid is going