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commercial rating in her Piper. We've had study sessions, traveled
to fly-ins, and made countless memories. "
Both had interesting ways they were introduced to flying.
Ammon agreed to go with her nephew when he said he was
taking an introductory flight. So awed by the flight, she told
her nephew there were going to be two new pilots in the
family. " His mom got him a discovery flight and when he said
he wasn't sure he wanted to go by himself, I said I'll go with
you, " Ammon said. " We had a great CFI and he let us do a lot;
I had never been in a small aircraft before and the amount of
control we had I loved. When we were on the ground, I looked
at my nephew and said, 'Guess who is going to ground school
with you?' "
Trate was in a pre-college program for nursing and just
didn't feel like it was right for her. She called her father and
tossed out ideas until he said why don't you go to flight school
like your brother? " When Dad said he'd pay for training, he got
me signed up and I fell in love with it. The owner of the flight
school said, 'Just get a degree in something,' so when I was
looking at the community college programs I saw aviation maintenance.
I had no clue it was a thing. I thought why not learn
about what I am flying? "
Now an A&P mechanic, Trate was working on Ammon's
Sierra when the two met. It was instant chemistry. They started
talking aviation and haven't stopped. " When we initially met,
we decided to get our seaplane ratings together but then we
switched and got our commercial. And now we're doing CFI
and CFII together, " Trate said. " Just finding another woman in
aviation is awesome. I just held on to that. "
" I think I asked you to go to Sun 'n Fun like the first day
we started talking, " said Ammon. " I found this friend to go on
adventures with and then we started studying together, doing
checkride prep, and checking in with each other. I'm really bad
at systems and she said she was bad with weather, so we helped
each other. "
On the path to become CFIs and then CFIIs, the pair signed
up for spin training with Robert " Rooster " Schmidle in Easton,
Maryland. On an overcast day this past summer the two women
had to drive up from Ocean City, Maryland, which had low
ceilings, instead of flying their aircraft. Easton is about two hours
west of Ocean City, and it had clear skies and great visibility.
Schmidle was ready for them in his bright red Pitts biplane.
It was all smiles from both pilots in spin training
with Robert " Rooster " Schmidle. Anita Ammon
(top) went first because her " day job " as a
property manager means people call a lot and
distract her. Ava Trate happily went second and
said the experience was " a lot of fun. "
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