Adva Amir
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107 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Adva Amir’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you have a dream, you can go and do that. There will be challenges, but it's possible.
I wanted to become a military pilot, but it didn't work out for me. It was a big setback. The first time that I actually saw you in person, you heard about my journey and me wanting to be a pilot, and you encouraged me and gave me a lot of blessing motivation with your big smile.
But there were a lot of people who told me, you're female, you're too young for that, there's no chance you're going to be a pilot if you weren't a pilot in the military. So I finished training, I become a first officer, and then I got upgraded to a captain. If there is something you believe in it or you're passionate about, go and try for it.
Good morning. Good afternoon. I don't know. Where are we?
My light sparked somewhere around age eight. I was flying for the first time with my family to the US. And then I was a very stubborn kid and very curious kid. And from the jet bridge, I was waving for the pilots and they didn't notice me. And I kept waving, kept waving, kept waving till the captain finally saw me and he invited me to the cockpit.
So I went there with my brother and all of a sudden this little kid seeing all these buttons and lights, I was just amazed. I was asking the pilot so many questions and I think at some point they were afraid the flight will be delayed because of me. But they were so kind and so patient and they answered all my questions. There is one thing I remember specifically.
They told me, welcome to the most beautiful office in the world. And they were right. So this is how it started. Later on, I wanted to become a military pilot. All the air shows and everything, it's really... made my life even bigger, but it didn't work out for me.
It was a big setback. I almost couldn't resist. I appeal and appeal and I really wanted to do it. And I was like, no way, I'm not going to be a pilot in the military. There's no way. But when I'm looking at it from today and I did something completely different in the military, I'm happy. I'm happy that the things worked the way they did.
At the time, it was really, really hard for 18 years old at VATU. First time, it was like a big failure for me. It's like they don't want me. But I think everything worked out the way it should and made me happy. go and achieve my dream in a different way.
And exactly as you said, as also the thought that they're taking the best of the best and all of a sudden you feel like, oh, so I'm not the best of the best. This was really hard to recover from. And I think it took me a long time. But as I started my position in the military, everything went away. And I said, OK, this is my journey now. I choose this. I enjoy this.
I loved what I was doing in the military and I wouldn't replace it with anything else.
So I was a civil coordination officer in the IDF. I was working a lot coordinating activities between the Palestinian Authority and the IDF.
I think the first thing is that I learned to put the people first. I wasn't like this in the beginning, you know, as you were in the military too, an F-16 instructor, that sometimes it can be like really busy. You have a lot of things to do and overachievers, we want to achieve everything and be good at everything. And sometimes we forget the people.
And I had a big department of 16 soldiers and I, now know that I need to put the people first because eventually they are the one that will make my department fulfilled and better. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
I think my personality that I was always a rebel helped me. go and pursue this dream again. It took me a long time. I already applied for university and I was supposed to start studying at a university. And then it was really 50-50 till I sat down with myself and it was a long time, two months. I was writing the benefits and the disadvantages. Like the pros and cons and all that.
Yeah, pros and cons, like really doing this list. Yeah. That it wasn't like I'm going to do the flight school in my home country. I had to move to the U.S. to do that. So it was a big, big decision. And I remember coming to my parents and tell them one day they were just sitting in the living room and I was like, hey, I think I want to become a pilot.
And I got this look. I remember my dad saying, okay, go and check it. You know, like it was very abnormal for a 21 years old girl to go and say, I want to be a pilot in my home country. Normally people just become pilots after the military, of course, in civil way, but they really accepted it calmly and relaxed, which made me relaxed. I was like, okay, it's possible. It's
Oh, so many naysayers. So many. I got a lot, a lot of comments when I just started. I got so many of them that I didn't want to say I'm going to become a pilot. I almost kept it as a secret. Like one day I just disappeared from Israel. I went to the U.S. Wow. My friends were wondering, where did I go? And I said, at the beginning, I remember I was so scared.
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