Why Your Daughter Should Learn How to Fly an Airplane | Leah Ochs | TEDxUniversityofNevada

[@PamelaAlmand]

Great talk, Leah! Too many people focus in on why there are so few women... not on why women SHOULD fly! I didn't start flying until right after graduating college with a BFA in graphic design, had no thoughts of a career (there actually weren't ANY female airline pilots then!) but got so hooked, I blew off the art and flew everything I could find (including single-engine Cessna 150's! across the Atlantic!) to build my flight time... fast forward and I retired from Northwest Airlines/Delta after captaining 747's and Airbus A330s all over the globe! That mystical euphoria of leaving the ground with your own hands on the stick changed my entire life! Thanks for your words!

[@chrisjamison376]

Very inspiring even to a 53 year old male working on a sports pilots lic. And I think it’s great thing for ladies to become pilots! The aviation community is wonderful and I found some of the most encouraging people! Awesome speech!

[@pilotleah]

Chris Jamison thank you! It is definitely a wonderful community of folks! Best wishes as you work on your sports license, I’ll see you in the sky!

[@stacievournas3783]

That’s awesome and yes, taking-off and landing on the dry lake bed is great practice!

[@Spray-N-Pray]

I listened to your podcast appearance on Pilot to Pilot. It's crazy how much prep you had to do for the TED Talk. Nice job. I also enjoyed the story about the turbulence and the hot start woes. Being a pilot is a humbling experience a lot of times, but somehow you're always looking forward to your next flight. I think what you're doing to shine a light on women in aviation is a great thing and needed. Keep at it.

[@Isabella-ry9dz]

I just can't wait to start flight training !!!!

[@Emeraude129]

AS OLD RENO FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR, JOE WILLAMS, USED TO SAY "FLIGHT TRAINING THE HARD WAY", IT WILL MAKE A BETTER PERSON OF YOU, JUST DO IT ! !

[@spbyaubrey]

Wow Leah! Thank you SO much for sharing your passion for flying. I was there that weekend at HSF and I am now, more so even than bsck then, itching to get up in the air. As you were talking I felt the "goosebumps" when you talked about freedom! I want that... no, I NEED that freedom. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart for helping me feel confident in taking advantage of my minority status and getting my pilots license!!

[@pilotleah]

Aubrey Savas that is so awesome to hear!! Thank you for sharing! Can’t wait to see you out there this year! ✈️🤘🏻

[@brianh794]

I’m working on my PPL right now and hope to become a CFI, and if I have a daughter in the future I can’t wait to teach her to be a badass pilot girl

[@electraheart178]

This suggestion was impeccably timed. I watched a movie in January and had to leave the theatre to make a memo to look into flight school because some scenes were overwhelmingly cathartic. Nothing to do with planes, but I realized I wanted to fly- not die. I did, but put it on the back burner to finish some other pending tasks, projects, and obligations before properly pursuing my newer big ones. My soul was already charged with the idea, so I will keep this message in mind. Godspeed & thank you! 🎼 ✈️ 🎻 📝 🧬 ✍🏽

[@pilotleah]

Electra Heart I can’t tell you how much it means to me to read your words! That is my mission for this talk and I am so glad it inspired you! Can’t wait to watch you get your wings! ✈️

[@terryochs6507]

So proud of you!!! Always. All ways.

[@pilotleah]

Terry Ochs Thank you! 😊

[@markboguski6061]

Very inspiring Leah! I’ll be using your talk in my ground school!

[@leadawn11]

Amazing!!! My eyes were welling up the entire time! Thank you!!!! 👍🏼🛩️

[@pilotleah]

Lea Hadzick oh my gosh, thank you so much! 😊

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Great presentation...👍

[@stacievournas3783]

Oh yeah! It changed my life at age 34!!!!

[@jenrobinson5789]

You are amazing Leah!!!

[@pilotleah]

Jen Robinson Thank you! Can’t wait for your talk to be posted!

[@kelsk2021]

Amazing talk!! So inspiring!!

[@flycory]

Thanks Leah! This is amazing! Glad you can showcase our passion in your talk.

[@pilotleah]

Cory Robin Thank you for watching and sharing 🙂 We are part of such an incredible community!

[@sandy_arthur]

Thanked my parents after watching this :) thank you, FAST brought me here!

[@pilotleah]

Sandy Arthur What awesome parents! So glad they encouraged you! Thanks for watching 😊

[@bbt95762]

Shared this with my daughters - great talk

[@pilotleah]

I’m so glad to hear that! I hope it ignites their curiosity in aviation 😊 Thank you for watching and sharing my talk!

[@BretSimmons]

Great job, Leah!

[@pilotleah]

Bret Simmons Thank you!

[@davidwillison2815]

Yes...Yes...Yes...Grandpa Dave agrees 100%.............

[@tbrown1480]

This was the best talk and so inspiring! It serves as a call for us to all aspire to do something or be something bigger.

[@coreymosley3534]

Great video thanks for highlighting that amazing weekend. I was also on that lakebed that day and remember telling my buddies how cool it is to see women out there racing side by side with the boys. That night around the bonfire when Kevin / Cory Award Nat with $2000 💵 was an awesome moment in aviation to see first hand for women in the aviation gaining respect as a fellow aviator. I shared this Video with my 14 year old daughter so we will see what happens next 👍👍👍

[@pilotleah]

Corey Mosley it was such an incredible moment in our community, I agree! Thanks for sharing and thanks for sharing the video with you daughter! I hope she gets the itch to fly! ✈️ see you out there later this year 👍🏻

[@sammydtv]

Amazing job! 🙌🏻

[@pilotleah]

Brush Pilot Sammy Thank you! 😊

[@kunheelee3803]

I mean, good talk but I don’t see this topic as TED talk. Basically what she’s saying is that Pilot is cool, how amazing benefits they have. Like.. it’s more like topic between friends. Imagine Lawyers on the Ted talk telling people how cool they are. What the..

[@soft_thetic9039]

Happy for the fact that India has largest number of female pilots in whole world 🇮🇳

[@AliceHeiman]

Fly ladies, fly!

[@pilotleah]

Alice Heiman thank you 😊

[@AN2Felllla]

Aeroplanes are cool girls. Go for it!

[@pilotleah]

James Goldsworthy thanks!

[@energydrinks10]

I’m 24 and looking to start aviation school this year :) Does anyone know of financial aid for woman in aviation? Scholarships or Grants?

[@cellac9420]

Hello Leah! I’m so very inspired to become and work as a plot. Where can I go as a female minor to find these amazing scholarships?

[@michaelstern1945]

A great talk your are an inspiration for young girls. This mikercflyer a loyal Instagram follower.

[@pilotleah]

michael stern thank you so so much! You are always such an encouragement to others!

[@Mark-ExNGH392]

“Use your minority status to your advantage?” Whatever happened to hiring safe qualified individuals regardless of race, color, or gender? Sounds like discrimination to me. Discriminating men in favor of women who have some advantage because of the fact of being born a woman.

[@adamjursell]

Thank God pilots are in such high demand... oh wait... damn

[@davidbsac]

hiring is restarting in the regionals and corporate flying has returned to pre-covid levels

[@travisk5589]

Meanwhile the airline industry has collapsed.

[@divinetruths345]

Big facts, this industry is cyclical. You become a pilot because you want to fly. I'm tired hearing all this "we need more women pilots", pilot shortage". Tell that to the furloughed pilots or about to be who are bitting thier nails on how they're going to pay the bills .Utter bs, what we need is airlines getting thier $hit together when hard times come.

[@ksthebest]

@@divinetruths345 Take 100% of the turnover away from any company for a prolonged period and see how long it survives - my guess is, not long. No matter how many billions airlines save, no company can reliably prepare for this eventuality. They'd have to save too much and invest too little to remain relevant in the market.

[@susanmarieguidopeterson483]

Xxoo

[@georgethomas8161]

OUT STANDING!!

[@WConn100]

There is NO SUCH THING as a pilot license.....ITS A CERTIFICATE.

[@GuruMN]

This is true, but despite how it's called by a regulatory body, it's effectively the same. Both a pilot certificate and driver's license are revocable, have specific privileges, medical requirements (each to a different degree), and a pile of rules. It's similar to holding a sectional chart and calling it a map.

[@ddkitty21]

@WConn100 in Canada it is a pilot's licence. Calm down.....

[@WConn100]

@@ddkitty21 Canada? Canada? WTH is CANADA?

[@soft_thetic9039]

@WConn 00 No one can fly a plane unless they have student pilot license, private pilot license, commercial pilot license, airline transport pilot license

[@WConn100]

It's that place up north somewhere.

[@shannonmcconville3948]

Yeah, she also used her, "minority" status to remove a man from his job because she was failing at hers! 🤣🤣🤣

[@kaitlinreigelsperger8279]

Shannon McConville this is such an uneducated thing to say. 7% is the percent of all women pilots. Professional women pilots make up only 5% of the entire industry. And you’re saying that they are displacing men? What a joke.

[@fastmph]

Clueless

[@shannonmcconville3948]

Trust me, I would be saying this to her face if I could... confront her. I would love for that moment to happen! Make her see what kind of person she truly is. Women who use people are pathetic. I pray to God that no one ever does to you what you did to my family. You are a monster!

[@pattyhaley9594]

@@kaitlinreigelsperger8279 They get hired because the airlines get serious tax cuts for hiring minorities. And not that sexism doesn't exist in aviation