Episode 47: LIVE | Festival of Flight 2026

Okay, so Lynn, to you, you retired from real estate and mortgage banking.

You were like, listen, I need a new change of pace in 2020, and are now teaching as a flight instructor.

If someone in the crowd decides today they want to learn how to fly, what are the first steps? You mentioned it in your story yourself.

Yeah, well, it's never the wrong time to learn how to fly.

It doesn't matter what age you are.

You can become a student pilot and learn how to fly.

My motto is review and reinvent.

So you can always reinvent yourself later and decide, you know, if you wanted to be a firefighter when you were six, doesn't mean you have to follow that path completely.

So to come out, the first step is a discovery flight.

Just come to one of the flight schools.

We have two on the field.

I teach a Bravo flight training here on the field.

And just take a discovery flight and see if you like it.

Right.

And then... we have lots of options you can go kind of career pathing they call that part 141 which is a little more structured and accelerated or you can do part 61 which is a little looser there's a little bit more still structured but a little more opportunity to make things fit for the kind of part-time pilot and we'll take you through the path and in six months or less, you could be a private pilot.

I feel like, I think it's like much, there's so many more barriers to like get involved, but...

There

aren't.

There are not.

There's a lot of myths around it.

Like I said, the only other pilot I knew growing up was my older sister married an Air Force pilot.

Right.

Again, I thought you had to join the military.

I thought that was the only path.

Right.

Okay, so Lynn, to you, you retired from real estate and mortgage banking.

You were like, listen, I need a new change of pace in 2020, and are now teaching as a flight instructor.

If someone in the crowd decides today they want to learn how to fly, what are the first steps? You mentioned it in your story yourself.

Yeah, well, it's never the wrong time to learn how to fly.

It doesn't matter what age you are.

You can become a student pilot and learn how to fly.

My motto is review and reinvent.

So you can always reinvent yourself later and decide, you know, if you wanted to be a firefighter when you were six, doesn't mean you have to follow that path completely.

So to come out, the first step is a discovery flight.

Just come to one of the flight schools.

We have two on the field.

I teach a Bravo flight training here on the field.

And just take a discovery flight and see if you like it.

Right.

And then... we have lots of options you can go kind of career pathing they call that part 141 which is a little more structured and accelerated or you can do part 61 which is a little looser there's a little bit more still structured but a little more opportunity to make things fit for the kind of part-time pilot and we'll take you through the path and in six months or less, you could be a private pilot.

I feel like, I think it's like much, there's so many more barriers to like get involved, but...

There

aren't.

There are not.

There's a lot of myths around it.

Like I said, the only other pilot I knew growing up was my older sister married an Air Force pilot.

Right.

Again, I thought you had to join the military.

I thought that was the only path.

Right.