Women of Aviation Worldwide
WOMEN OF AVIATION WORLDWIDE
By Ramona Reynolds
I
was invited to speak along with fellow VFC community member, Jessica James, on March 12 at the Fly It Forward event for Women of Aviation Worldwide hosted at Glacier Air in Squamish. We enjoyed powerful speakers that included Angela Mourar whose career has taken her across Europe, West Asia, North Africa and the Gulf. She now manages operations for a Gulfstream
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in Austria. And Katie Coley who did her training on the Sunshine Coast, training on floats and tailwheel, and has worked in sightseeing, northern float operations and is now flying for a regional airline. I know that Jessica will be sharing her own experience but part of the challenge for me of preparing to speak with all of these young women and girls was to tell
them them truth without freaking them out. So my intention was actually not to tell them about the exciting world of sitting on a board, or holding the position of accountable executive, or managing a flight training unit and aircraft maintenance organization, regulatory issues, or even being the first woman to ever hold those positions at the Victoria Flying Club. I didn’t even talk to them about flying, I was there to talk to them about having full ownership of their own experience. I was very clear with my intention of the influence I wanted to have; and that had everything to do with empowering the next generation by telling them what nobody ever says out loud. I wasn’t there to tell my story; and in fact, I didn’t tell my story. I was there to use my own unique understanding and experience to expand their ideas of what was available to them.
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