Pilot Juliet

06/10/2024

Con todo tu corazón 🫶🏽

05/02/2024

Fueled with av gas and $300 hamburgers 😆 ✈️ 🍔

04/04/2024

Meet Julia.

Growing up in Ukraine with my mom and sister was far from an easy life for us. When we moved to Germany I had a dream of becoming a flight attendant. Unfortunately, in Europe, there’s a height requirement. A short time later I moved to the U.S. and knew another woman, shorter than me, and she was able to get a flight attendant job. I excitedly applied to an airline. They offered me the job on the spot and I started training two weeks later. I loved my job because it provided a way for me to see my family and opened up the rest of the world to me too. After several years I began to wonder if there was more. I never thought I had the opportunity to be a pilot. That wasn’t a possibility ever planted in my head, but while on a Frankfurt layover talking with one of the pilots I realized-babygirl, if he can be a pilot, you can be a pilot! That moment changed the course of my life. I took a discovery flight October 2018 and thought “wow, wow, wow.” Initially, my pilot journey was not an experience I enjoyed, then Covid happened. I now found myself broke, in debt, out of a job and confused. So, I went to Guam for six months where my days were spent considering what my life would be like and my nights were spent living my best life!! I made the decision to continue with my training and became even more motivated to move forward. I switched from a part 141 to part 61 and that’s when I truly fell in love with flying. For me the experience was what I imagined training to be…fun. I flew with friends everywhere for those $100 burgers and felt more at ease. Here I am now with a training date for an airline and soon enough I’ll be a pilot for an airbus! I could never have imagined this incredible life experience but I am so thankful for my mom’s constant support, encouragement and her instilling independence in me. Because my mom let my wings grow, I can now fly. Thank you mom ❤️

04/02/2024

Meet Laura

Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, I’m the first person in my family to envision a career in aviation. As a young child, anytime we went on vacation I would ask: “are we going in a plane or by land?”. In middle school i became friends with a boy also enamored by aviation (he’s a pilot today as well!). He taught me how to identify makes and models of planes and their engines. I began printing my pilot inspirations on paper and hanging them on my wall to see every time I woke up.
In time, I convinced my mom to set up a flight simulator on her computer. I learned the phonetic alphabet, the basics of flying and to how to guide myself in an airport while taxiing. As my high school graduation approached, I told my mom I truly desired to become a pilot. My mom thought I was young and believed that I would change my mind at some point, but I knew this is what my heart yearned for. With the help of a friend who was a CFI in Miami we convinced my mom to let me go on a discovery flight.
In 2019, I applied to the U.S. for the second time and was approved. There was an outpouring of tears because I felt that this was the start of my dreams becoming my reality. At 19 years old I left the only life, culture, people, environment I had ever known. I arrived in Miami with three suitcases and holding the hand of little four year old Laura to start my pilot journey. I began my private October 2019 and my journey was faced by all kind of difficulties, tears, disappointment, discouragement, loss of hope, financial hardships, loneliness, and doubts, but God always reminded me of the reason of why I was here, as well as, my dad who is looking over me in heaven and my mom who now shares my dream.
Here I am now at 25 and starting my CFI training. Like the turtle and the bunny metaphor-slow and short steps but never taking my eyesight off the finish line.
“Per aspera Adastra”— Through hardships to the stars. This reminds me I’m always aiming to the stars, no matter what.

04/01/2024