What it means to be the best
SkyTrek Alaska owner featured on Hangar Talk
Running a flight school is hard work. Doing it in Alaska is even harder. And doing it as a woman in Alaska? That’s practically unheard of.
Photography by David Tulis
But Jamie Patterson-Simes isn’t just running a school in Alaska, she’s crushing it. Patterson-Simes owns of SkyTrek Alaska, AOPA’s Best Flight School of 2017.
AOPA Hangar Talk co-host David Tulis sat down with Patterson-Simes to discuss what it’s like to run a school, working at Walmart to support herself when she first started instructing, and the challenges of being a woman running a business in a male-dominated industry.
This conversation is part of the Flight Time series from Hangar Talk, where we revisit some of the most popular interviews for the Flight Training audience.
