“There’s a saying out there: ‘If you can see it, you can be it,’” said Cheri Rohlfing, a nearly 25-year Delta Air Lines pilot.

And it’s not common to see female pilots out in the world. Only 5.2% of airline pilots are women, according to the Air Line Pilots Association .

Atlanta-based Delta’s rate is 6.3%, the union said; among captains the number drops to 1.5%.

Visual representation was the idea behind Delta’s WING flight — Women Inspiring our Next Generation — 10 years ago.

“When mostly what you see is a male-dominated industry, then young women don’t necessarily think, ‘Oh I should go do that,’” Rohlfing told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

She co-founded the flight in Minneapolis with former Delta employee Beth Poole, inspired by Delta’s DREAM flight geared toward young pe

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