4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Sure, we love traveling with our parents (we've even talked about it on this podcast), but spending 54 days in a small cockpit, co-piloting a plane with them? Not so appealing. Talk to Georgia Dean, though, and it sounds like a piece of cake. The 26-year-old pilot just spent that much time in the air with her dad, flying a turboprop plane from Colorado Springs to some 23 different countries around the world, including Iceland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Jordan, and South Africa. In this week's episode Dean spills on what it takes to be a pilot—and how your worldview changes at 30,000 feet.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. This is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kottinass Traveler. My name is Meredith Carey, and as always, I am seated next to Lolle Eric Koglu. |
0:11.6 | Hello. And this week, we have someone very exciting in the studio. I'm going to just read this spiel, like right off my piece of paper, because it is so mind-blowing. |
0:25.6 | Georgia Dina is an aspiring 26-year-old pilot who's already been around the world once with her dad, co-piloting a single-engine turbo prop plane the size of a small yacht. |
0:29.6 | She was 23 at the time, which like is, I was doing nothing at 23. |
0:33.6 | Doing nothing now. |
0:35.6 | You and your dad just completed an epic 54 day route in the same plane |
0:40.5 | all over the place starting in Colorado Springs and ending up in Greece and Jordan and Africa |
0:47.9 | and Greenland and all these other places that was not the order they flew in by the way |
0:51.9 | and you filed dispatches to kind of As Traveler, the whole route. |
0:56.1 | So Lally and I have been keeping up with your journey, but you just finished when? |
1:00.2 | I got back on October 17th. |
1:03.0 | Okay, so like two weeks ago. |
1:04.4 | So how has it been adjusting to normal life on the ground? |
1:09.6 | It was easier than I thought, but I did come back to New York and have to do a full move, |
1:13.8 | and I broke up with my boyfriend, and I don't have a job. |
1:16.0 | So it's been more than an adjustment. |
1:19.3 | Do you feel like your travel, like those 54 days, were like this mind opening? |
1:24.5 | Because that's a lot of things to happen at once. |
1:26.7 | Yeah. |
1:27.4 | It feels like you're in a different planet. |
1:29.1 | I mean, you're very much so on Earth, and we're very aware of that. |
1:31.7 | We were fighting gravity the whole time, but it's like a meditation almost. |
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