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Posted on May 27, 2022
Alaska commercial pilot Dolena Fox fulfills her dream of flying other Yup'ik locals
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Only 6% of professional American pilots are women. Dolena Fox recently became one of them.
The Native Alaskan is also one of a handful of female Yup'ik commercial pilots and hopes others will learn to fly, too.
The Native Alaskan is also one of a handful of female Yup'ik commercial pilots and hopes others will learn to fly, too.
Alaska commercial pilot Dolena Fox fulfills her dream of flying other Yup'ik locals
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Fox said that speaking Yugtun and flying locals around the Y-K Delta has been her dream since middle school. But she didn’t always think that dream could be a reality.
“For me personally, it was really hard to even just leave Bethel. To go to flight training and to go to school and to do something that I never saw as a successful goal. But I want more people to know that doing what they want to do is actually very achievable,” said Fox.
Helping people learn how to fly without leaving Bethel is the reason she got her instructor’s certificate. According to Grant Aviation, when there was a local flight school in Bethel there were more pilots from the Y-K Delta. Now, Fox is one of the only ones. Out of the 60 pilots at Grant, only five are from the region.
As far as what’s next for Fox, she may move on to bigger aircraft one day. But for now she’s content to fly in her home region.
“I feel like everything I have on the ground dissipates in the air. That’s all I have to care for: keeping the plane in the air. So everything else, all my problems or all my things I need to do in life, is left on the ground when I take off,” said Fox."...
..."Fox said that speaking Yugtun and flying locals around the Y-K Delta has been her dream since middle school. But she didn’t always think that dream could be a reality.
“For me personally, it was really hard to even just leave Bethel. To go to flight training and to go to school and to do something that I never saw as a successful goal. But I want more people to know that doing what they want to do is actually very achievable,” said Fox.
Helping people learn how to fly without leaving Bethel is the reason she got her instructor’s certificate. According to Grant Aviation, when there was a local flight school in Bethel there were more pilots from the Y-K Delta. Now, Fox is one of the only ones. Out of the 60 pilots at Grant, only five are from the region.
As far as what’s next for Fox, she may move on to bigger aircraft one day. But for now she’s content to fly in her home region.
“I feel like everything I have on the ground dissipates in the air. That’s all I have to care for: keeping the plane in the air. So everything else, all my problems or all my things I need to do in life, is left on the ground when I take off,” said Fox."...
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