Episode description
What is going on avination? Welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast episode 72 ft. Dianna Klein. Dianna has accomplished a lot in her aviation career, she is a 787 Dreamliner pilot and a C5 pilot in the Air Force Reserves. All while being a wife, mom and very active in her local community.
Some of the things Dianna and I talk about are...
- Dianna talks about why she got into aviation
- How her dad never pushed aviation on her.
- Why Dianna's military aviation career didn’t go as planned.
- Why Dianna chose Embry Riddle for her flight school.
- Why Dianna felt bad for her mom at sometimes in her training.
- How Dianna was able to leave early from high school to fly.
- Why Dianna wanted to go to the Air Force Academy to learn how to flying fighters.
- When Dianna knew she caught the aviation bug
- Dianna talks about being very focused on her training.
- Dianna talks about struggling with math with the SAT.
- Dianna didn’t let a setback deter her aviation dreams.
- Why it is important to have your own board of personal directors.
- Dianna talks about how 9/11 affected her and her family.
- How Dianna built her time.
- We talk a little bit of the struggle of building your time.
- Dianna talks about getting hired by American Eagle.
- How Dianna was always pursuing the Air Force Reserves
- Dianna talks about her military flight training and how she loved it.
- The importance of being financially aware as a pilot.
- Talks about her dreams and goals personal and aviation-related.
- The importance of learning to say no.
- How important it is to ask for help when you need it.
- We talk about the importance of getting more women into aviation.
- What needs to be done to get more aviators to get into aviation.
- Dianna talks about her sons thinking about aviation.
- What it is like to fly the C5.
- She talks about the difficulties his husband had transitioning from fighter pilot to an airline pilot.
- She talks about the importance of teamwork in aviation (military and civilian).
- Dianna talks about some emergency situations in the C5.
- The kinds of missions Dianna would fly as a C5 pilot.
- Dianna talks about working on the management side of United while being a line pilot.
- What it is like to work 9 days a month.
- What her future looks like at United... Possible management or stay as a line pilot.
- Dianna faces the rapid-fire section.
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Happy Flying,
Justin