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Marielle Veilleux
Aviation appealed to me as early as age six, when my
grandma decided that I'd become a nurse. I'd preferred to
be flying
at least like my aunt Rose,  who
was a Stewardess for Air Canada and in those days not only
was it glamorous, exciting, and adventurous, but it seemed
very rewarding for a woman to have a career in aviation.
Well,
it turned out that I was too short (5'2") for Air
Canada so I opted for a career in Air Traffic Control.
I
worked for Nav Canada for 16 years in the Canadian busiest
hobs.
At 17, when I enrolled as Air traffic controller we had to
do ground school and about ten hours of flying, I fell
in
love with flying airplanes, but time and money didn't afford
me a pilot's license. It's only 14 years later in 1997
that I decided to pursue my passion and got
My PPL.
I
now live up in the Arctic flying my second aircraft, a
Rans td Coyotee II. My husband introduced me to tail dragger,
mountain, and bush flying. We've flown across both our and
your great country--but, sorry, there's no beauty like
the North. Still Flying High!
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