Viaggio in Italia

To start off this travel page, I want to tell you guys about an amazing trip that I took to Italy in May, 2018. I was studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland at the time and took a two-week trip around Italy. I spent the first portion of the trip with my roommate traveling to Milan…

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My First Flight With a Passenger

As soon as I started flying all of my friends began asking when I could fly them around. I was beyond excited to find out that I actually could take passengers up with only a Student Pilot’s License as long as there was a flight instructor on board. My best friend since elementary school was…

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Why Not Start an Aviation Club

At a university with over 900 student organizations, you would assume that Penn State would have a club for just about anything. Knowing that I wasn’t going to be able to take flight lessons while I was at Penn State, I wanted to find a way to stay involved with aviation during school. Naturally, I…

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Where Are All the Female Pilots?

I have always hated the idea that I can’t do something just because I am a woman, or that a man would do a better job than I would. Knowing aviation was such a male dominated industry, and knowing that the only way to change that is to get more women in the industry helped…

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Wednesday Nights are for the Plane People

What senior in college wants to spend Wednesday nights talking about the principals of lift and aeronautical decision making. Not many that’s for sure, but here I am waiting patiently all week long for Wednesday nights when I can drive to the local airport and see what the crew there has in store for us….

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Why I Want to be a Pilot

People always seem to be a bit surprised when I tell them that I want to be a commercial airline pilot. It’s definitely not the most popular career choice among 21 year old girls in college. The first thing I get asked is what make me decide that I wanted to be a pilot. What…

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