Women pilots thrive in a challenging environment FROM THE AIR, DIXIE TOWN DOESN'T RESEMBLE ANY RUNWAY I HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED. Its 80-foot-wide, 2,854-foot-long surface is gravel and dirt, and it has a bit of a curve, as if a 5-year-old tried to draw a straight line without a ruler. Trails-taxiways?-branch out from the runway into the trees. Some buildings are clustered along the southeast side, next to a road that wants to fool the eye into thinking that it, too, could be a landing surface. That road is the main street of Dixie Township, Idaho. B Y J I L L W. TA L L M A N P H OT O G R A P H Y B Y M E L I S S A S H E L B Y www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 71http://www.aopa.org/pilot