Michelle Huntington

And I did that.

And yeah, it was, look, nothing's, everything's at the right timing is my belief.

So it meant that for 15 years, I didn't realize that dream to become a pilot.

But I learned some other life skills and met some interesting people along the way to that.

Well, I, so I was 27 when I met, so I had a divorce.

I had a two-year-old son and I moved to a small country town and joined a mixed Oz tag, which I'm not sure if you've got it.

It's like a league, like our rugby league that we have here.

And, but it's with a, you have to tip people sometimes.

and it was a mixed mixed team men and women and there was one other woman on the team and I went to her and asked her what she did you know introduced myself and she was learning to fly and she she basically said like nothing dramatic she just said um

All you do is, you know, do the interview, pay the money and learn to fly.

It's that easy.

And so then I was like, oh my goodness, okay, this is possible.

And I started researching how I'm going to do this.

And it was as simple as you, you know, pay the money to a flying school.

So

I needed to sell my home in order to do that.

And my son and I moved it back in with my mum in Sydney.

And then I needed a bank loan because I didn't have quite enough money.

So I went to the bank and asked them for a loan to learn to fly.

And they said to me, no, you know, we're not going to loan you money for that because women can't be pilots.