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My return to aviation over the past few months has been exhilarating and terrifying all at the same time. My range of emotions at any given minute has run the gamut from Christmas morning-like excitement to “maybe I should just go work at Starbucks” fear! I may be exaggerating… a little.

I knew what I wanted to do at a very young age. My first memory of knowing in my heart that I would fly airplanes was in elementary school. I don’t know exactly how it started, whether it was a passing interest of my brothers’ that I latched onto at some point, but as soon as I became aware that being a pilot was a career choice, I was laser-focused. There was nothing else I wanted to be but a pilot.

I was a new first officer (copilot) for a regional airline when I got the phone call I had been dreading. I was on standby as a backup pilot when the dispatcher put me on a four-day trip with Captain P. His reputation was well known among the female pilots. “He will start off by explaining how you should be home baking cookies and making babies,” warned one of my female colleagues. Although I enjoy baking cookies and wanted to have babies, I also had wanted to fly since the a

A single mom at 19, Christy Wong worked full-time and earned a double major, all the while admiring the 737s flying over Las Vegas. Christy waving from the Wong Warrior “One day I am going to fly that!” she declared in 2007. Later, Christy met her husband-to-be, Steve Wong, and moved to Texas, where he worked as a corporate pilot. She kept telling him, “I want to fly. I want to be you, basically.” But Christy was pursuing her medical biochemistry masters and an allergy specia

I was a pilot for 13 years (4 years as an airline pilot) before I became a mother. It was a decision my husband and I did not take lightly, but one that we looked forward to immensely. We now have a 5-year-old boy, a 3-year-old boy, and are pregnant with our third boy, due later this year. Kids bring smiles and so much happiness and joy, but also tears, stress, and challenging days. And I wouldn’t change it for anything. Being a mother and an airline pilot has given me th