FFS. I think it was Catherine Burton, transwoman. I wondered too and so did DH when we happened across the prog. And that was watching on a small telly, across a room with no close ups. I didn't want to speculate until I had researched and didn't see the intro that gave people's names.
It is exactly as women have been predicting. A male replaces a woman and ticks the extra diversity box. He gets to be male, a woman and trans. Definition the right kind of woman.
I don't mind a bit of engineering myself so it make me really angry. I faced a lot of sexism from my dad etc when I was growing up and it was such hard work being a girl interested in cars, engineering, making stuff etc and not one person encouraged me in that direction, quite the opposite, plus the usual sexual comments etc. I would have loved to see a woman as the expert pilot.
The video below is rage inducing. the first line is the intro "I'm Cat Burton, one of British Airway's most senior women captains". Yes, one who got there as a man :(
runwaygirlnetwork.com/2017/08/21/retired-but-not-retiring-bas-catherine-burton-reflects-on-pilot-career/ (that website name offends me as it has nothing to do with women flying - but with passenger experience as facilitated by 'runways girls', grr)
There was an interesting moment on the show that I half heard (was doing other things too) where the woman in overalls was looking through the binoculars and said something like "I see a female, so I am going to say a woman" presumably in response to being asked who was flying the plane. It struck me as in odd thing to say, but in the context of having a transwoman on the show, it might make some sense.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2019/07/23/planespotting-live-review-shambolic-show-ever-cleared-take-bbc/
I can't read the article but the comments are interesting. No one seems to know or is saying that Captain Cat is might be a male who is a transwoman.
rant over :(