Female pilots take to Instagram to inspire other women to fly

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Aviation may be dominated by men, but that's not stopping these female pilots from inspiring other women to take to the skies.

Female pilots from all over the world are sharing their lives of flying through Instagram at a time where aviation seems to becoming even more of a male driven industry.

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The International Society of Women Airline Pilots reports of over 600,000 active Airmen Certificates (licenses to fly a plane), only about 40,000, or about 6 percent, are women.

According to Women in Aviation, only one in 21,417 women held an "other-than-student" pilot certificate in 1960. By 1980, the ratio became one in 4,224 women. However today, that ratio has declined to one in 5,623 women holding an "other-than-student" pilot certificate.

The account fly with Eva follows the life of Eva Claire, a Dutch pilot who flies a Boeing 737 from Barcelona. Claire told Traveler.com that she works five days in a row and gets four days off. She said some of her flight days can include trips starting as early as 6:15 a.m. and she can pilot up to four flights a day. Other days she can start flying around 1 p.m. and be home by midnight after two or four flights.

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Claire revealed in one Instagram post that aviation isn't all about flying, though. "Did you know a big percentage of a pilot's job is like an office job?" she wrote in one Instagram post. We have to note down lots of things; the time overhead waypoints, fuelchecks, frequencies, atc clearances and instructions, weather, etc!"

Judging from her smiling photos in the cockpit though, it doesn't seem that the writing portion of the job isn't going to keep her from flying.

Click through the slideshow above to see more photos of female pilots and the lives they live.