Chat with Ana Carolina Uribe, a private pilot and aviation advocate for young Latina women. Inspired by her father, husband, and son, Ana began flying in her 40s. She shares her journey, challenges like tough landings and educational costs, and highlights her community support and planning. Ana's organization of the Women of Aviation International event earned her the Jefferson Award. Tune in for her inspiring story and advice for aspiring pilots.

Growing up, Lindsay was considering becoming a military pilot until she found out that her peanut allergy was a medical disqualifying factor.

So she applied for and received a scholarship to get her private in one summer and then went off to train at Embry Riddle, where she finished all her training in an impressive 2 1/2 years by staying on campus every summer and holiday season to work on her flight training. Lindsay shares about the things she did to maximize her flight training and save money while quickly moving towards her goal. We also get to talk about how Lindsay had to overcome a terrible propensity towards airsickness, as she got sick on her discovery flight and continued to struggle with that during her flight training.

Lindsay graduated from Embry Riddle right when COVID was hitting and her school put a pause on hiring instructors. Not only did Lindsay manage to find a jb as a flight instructor, but by the time Lindsay was close to getting her hours, she landed a job with a part 135 charter airline and is now a first officer working on her captain upgrade.

Santa Fe-based Flight Instructor (and MY flight instructor), Kristi Mc Fadden and I discuss common student pilot and new pilot challenges and how to approach and overcome them, how to master landings and how to handle those common issues that students face. We also discuss the problems of flying during a pandemic, the cool experimental aircraft that I saw at our marina and more.

Arhynn Descy, is a French/South African composer and pianist who splits her time between London and LA. She has written music for feature films, shorts, documentaries, the stage, for orchestra and a variety of solo instruments. Arhynn is also a private pilot. And she shares how she first fell in love with aviation as an 11-year-old girl when reading a series of books. We talk about the freedom and the thrill she finds in flying, the profound experience of Arhynn’s first solo flight. and about the life-transforming moment in her life that propelled her into her flight training.

In this 16th episode of Chicks Who Fly, I get to have a conversation with Pilot Annie, a Private Pilot out of Collingwood, Ontario working toward her Commercial License. She volunteers for many different organizations and also writes as a columnist and feature writer for COPA and Wings Magazine. She is on the Board of Directors for The Northern Lights Aero Foundation and a proud First Canadian Chapter Ninety-Nine.

In today’s conversation, we talk about the detours and scenic routes taken in her pilot training despite falling in love with aviation early on. We talk about online ground school training versus in-person ground school, the differences in training in Canada versus the US, the challenges and highlights of flight training, her love of adventure flying and bush flying, being in a relationship with another pilot and much more.