Ep22: How the Chick in the Cockpit Dominates the Aviation Industry - Erika Armstrong
Ready 4 Pushback
Nik Fialka
4.8 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we invited renowned aviatrix and author Erika Armstrong to share her struggle as a woman in aviation, her insights on the changes in the industry, and a snippet from her book A Chick in the Cockpit. Keep listening to acquire expert tips from a woman navigating the aviation industry!
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE
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A reason to start your aviation dream at an early age
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Pilot’s family life challenges
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The motivation behind Erika Armstrong’s book
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How the aviation industry is performing in terms of bringing in pilot women
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Possible educational changes to fast-pace the process of becoming a pilot
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A powerful tip to thrive in the aviation industry as a pilot
RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONED
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A Chick in the Cockpit by Erika Armstrong | Kindle and Paperback
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert | Kindle, Paperback, and Hardcover
ABOUT ERIKA ARMSTRONG
Erika Armstrong is the chick in the cockpit. From the front desk of a busy FBO at the Flying Cloud Airport, to the captain's seat of a commercial airliner, Erika has experienced everything aviation has to offer. She has worked on both sides of the cockpit door (Part 91, 135, and 121), is an aviation professor at MSU Denver (specialty is Aircraft Systems and Propulsion, Instrument Fundamentals, Commercial Operations, Aviation Fundamentals), Instructional Designer, and VP of Business Development at Advanced Aircrew Academy and professional pilot columnist with 450,000 passionate, aviation-geek followers. Her flight training is from Flight Safety, SimuFlite, NATCO, CAE, Pan Am, and Aviation Charter, and has flown 28 different types of aircraft. Erika earned her hours as an international corporate, airline, Red Cross, and 24-hour air ambulance pilot/captain. She also owns Leading Edge Aviation Consulting, is a pilot recruiter, a Fellow at the Royal Aeronautical Society, and high profile keynote speaker in addition to an expert witness in high-profile aviation cases (kept both sides out of court!). To back her experience with education, Erika attended the University of Minnesota’s Journalism program as an undergraduate before being lured into the world of aviation. To round out her education, she attended Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University and has a B.A. degree in International Business, Economics, and Culture with National Honor Society recognition from the University of Denver.
CONNECT WITH ERIKA
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Website: A Chick in the Cockpit
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Linkedin: Erika Armstrong
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| 0:00.0 | You do not have to go out of your way to try to encourage women in there. |
| 0:03.0 | You just have to treat all pilots, men and women, in a certain respectful way, |
| 0:08.0 | so that positive energy has moved on to the next. |
| 0:11.0 | Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation. |
| 0:17.0 | They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums, meaning they are taking huge risks with their livelihood without having all the details. |
| 0:28.5 | This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation industry so you can find your dream job. |
| 0:35.4 | Let's get ready for pushback. |
| 0:37.6 | Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca. |
| 0:41.7 | It's a Monday. |
| 0:42.9 | Here we are, and I am talking to Erica Armstrong today. |
| 0:48.5 | Those of you who know who Erica Armstrong is are very lucky. |
| 0:53.5 | She is an amazing person. Go find her on LinkedIn. She has |
| 0:56.8 | half a million followers on LinkedIn. Erica is an amazing human. She was very gracious to take time |
| 1:04.2 | out of her day to talk to me. She is a professor. She is a pilot. She is an author and she is all sorts of great things. |
| 1:13.7 | Erica and I had an awesome conversation. She wrote a book called A Chick in the Cockpit and I'll |
| 1:20.5 | talk more about that in the interview. You should certainly check it out. And I hope you really |
| 1:27.0 | enjoy this episode. Before we jump into it, |
| 1:32.0 | if you have a question or a comment, you think of a guest that you think I should interview, |
| 1:39.1 | send me an email over at podcast at spitfireelite.com. And I would love to hear from you. And always a pitch for |
| 1:47.4 | leaving me a review, one star, five stars, whatever, just write something. When you write something |
| 1:52.2 | into the little machine that looks at all of the search engine optimization stuff, the more |
| 2:00.0 | things that are written, the more people can find |
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