Open Skies: Examining Airline Recruitment and Training Strategies
One thing my daughters taught me is that they learned more from my actions than anything I may have tried to teach them. My precocious...
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Hera Aviation Group Blog
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Mattie Bohanan
- May 12
- 1 min
Complacency – not ok in the flight deck and not ok in the industry.
As a pilot, you often hear the importance of not letting complacency creep into the flight deck. Complacency, defined by Merriam-Webster...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Life's Trim Control
When I came to college to pursue a degree in Professional Flight, I was new to the part 141 world. I was already a private pilot, and so...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Becoming Life's PIC
One of the biggest things I reiterate to my students is to start executing pilot-in-command (PIC) thinking and decision making. It is so...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Science proves you didn't actually self-sabotage like you think you did
How many times have you walked away from a conversation with someone and thought to yourself: “Yikes! That did not go too well”? If you...
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Erin McWhirter
- Jan 7
- 5 min
Reclaiming A Dream
By: Erin McWhirter 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...
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Shirley Phillips, DPT, Non-Profit Mentor
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
The Blessing and Curse of Singular Focus
I once was flying with a student on Christmas Eve in the western mountains of North Carolina. We were flying out of a small private...
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Shirley Phillips, DPT, Non-Profit Mentor
- Dec 3, 2021
- 4 min
Pink is the New Black
You may not have to become an expert in international affairs to fly around the world, but as a profession, I think we benefit from...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
Caregiving Includes Caring for Self
When I was preparing for the dreaded CFI check-ride, it was all-consuming. It didn’t help that I was preparing for it during the original...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Taking Advantage of Opportunity
Auburn University just got done with their Auburn Business Aviation Days, where industry professionals come to our campus to expose...
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Shirley Phillips, DPT, Non-Profit Mentor
- Nov 5, 2021
- 5 min
My Route to HERA
My path to getting involved with HERA was as circuitous as the route I navigated on my first solo cross country when I didn’t understand...
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Shirley Phillips, DPT, Non-Profit Mentor
- Oct 22, 2021
- 10 min
A Pilot Learns How Not to Fly
Rain sizzled on the windshield as we were flung into a dark gray cloud. I was flying a Saab 340, a twin-engine propeller driven aircraft,...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Oct 8, 2021
- 2 min
Job Duties Include: Cheerleading
The last part of training for my instrument rating wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t making any progress, and I had to relearn how to study. I was...
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Shirley Phillips, DPT, Non-Profit Mentor
- Sep 17, 2021
- 7 min
She's 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...
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Hera Aviation Group
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Better Together
Here at Hera Aviation Group, we believe that when individuals come together, we are better together. Therefore, we want to dedicate...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Aug 30, 2021
- 3 min
Here's a piece of advice - be YOU!
"Make sure you don't mention you want kids to recruiters and in interviews!" is a piece of advice I have gotten from many different...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Aug 19, 2021
- 2 min
Times, they are a' changin'
When my mom became a flight attendant 32 years ago, one of her interview questions was “why did you get married so young?” And that was...
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Jenny Duong
- Aug 13, 2021
- 4 min
Harriet Quimby
Welcome to a new history blog! For this blog, we will be showcasing Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to become a licensed female...
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Mattie Bohanan
- Aug 10, 2021
- 2 min
Does Humility Have a Place in Aviation?
There’s a notion that you must be confident in aviation, and I agree with this notion fully. I preach to all of my students the...
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Jenny Duong
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Wally Funk
Meet Wally Funk, woman, aviator, and the oldest person to travel to space at the age of 82. Funk joined Jeff Bezos on his journey to the...
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