Marissa Colclasure: Mom & Airline Pilot

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What is going on Avination, welcome to episode 44 of the Pilot to Pilot podcast. Today, I am talking with Marissa Colclasure who is currently a regional Airline Pilot. In this episode, Marissa and I talk about.

How Aviation found her.

How she was 18 when she took her first lesson.

Marissa and I talk about how the romance of flight needs to come back.

Marissa talks about how we have too much technology in training aircraft.

Why Marissa calls herself a hybrid pilot.

Why Marissa moved to Hawaii to build hours.

Why we need to take a step back and realize how lucky we are flying around.

We talk about the differences in flying in Hawaii than the contiguous 48 states.

How it is hard to get a flying job in Hawaii.

Why she left Hawaii to go to the regional airlines.

Why she tried to talk herself into staying at her 9 to 5 job.

What motivated to actually take the jump and fly for the regionals.

What it is like to non-rev with three kids.

What she told her kids would happen if they didn’t behave while flying standby.

We talk about what it is like to be a single mom and a regional pilot.

We talk about the platform that Instagram gives to people.

What Marissa's ultimate aviation goals are.

What it is like to build an airplane.

What it is like building an airplane with your kids.

I hope you enjoy today's episode if you do please leave a review on iTunes. Also, check out our Patreon page patreon.com/pilottopilot.

Happy Flying,

Justin

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0:00.0	Episode 44, the pilot, the pilot, the pilot podcast takes off now.
0:07.0	My name is Marissa.
0:11.0	I am a first officer at a regional airline and I'm building an airplane with my kids.
0:18.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Cadence Aviation. Cadence Aviation makes headsets that are affordable and work
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0:29.1	highly recommend it. You can catch it on sale right now on their website cadence aviation.com for
0:33.9	$ 149. Go and check it out. That's cadence aviation.com. What is going on aviation
0:39.7	and welcome back to another episode of the Pilot the Pilot
0:42.8	Podcast.
0:43.8	Today I'm talking with Marissa, also known
0:46.8	as Barefoot Flying Mom on Instagram.
0:49.4	Marissa has an incredible story.
0:51.1	She is a single mother of three who happens to fly for the
0:54.0	regional airlines. She is making it happen and doing some big things in the
0:58.0	industry. Some of the things Marissa and I talk about today are how she had to let
1:01.8	aviation find her. how she was 18
1:04.4	when she took her first official flight lesson, why Marissa calls herself a
1:08.2	hybrid pilot, how Marissa moved to Hawaii to build ours, how it is incredibly hard to get a flying job in Hawaii?
1:16.0	What motivated Marissa to actually take the jump and fly for the regional airlines?
1:20.2	What it's like the non-reve with kids. And we talk about the platform that Instagram gives people
1:25.0	and the way that people are able to influence others
1:27.0	and create an awesome community, kind of like the Avi Nation.
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