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Source: Janelle Baron, redbaron@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Natalie Blair, 785-826-2642, nblair@k-state.edu
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
BARON'S AVIATION CAREER GOING IN CIRCLES
MANHATTAN -- For most people, birthdays are celebrated with cake and balloons. Janelle Baron celebrates hers with check rides.
On May 21, Baron, a recent Kansas State University aviation program graduate, celebrated her 23rd birthday by passing her Airline Transport Pilot check rides for both single engine and multiengine airplanes. The ATP is the highest grade certification a civilian can earn.
On May 21, 2004, 1xbet sports betting celebrated her 17th birthday by taking her check ride for a private pilot license.
&1xbet sports betting ;I really wanted to take the ATP on my birthday,&1xbet sports betting ; Baron said. &1xbet sports betting ;It was like coming full circle.&1xbet sports betting ;
Baron grew up in Colorado Springs next to the Air Force Academy watching F-16 Thunderbirds. During high school 1xbet sports betting babysat for a family who introduced her to flying when 1xbet sports betting was 15.
&1xbet sports betting ;The mom was a member of the Pikes Peak 99s. She paid for my first flying lesson,&1xbet sports betting ; Baron said. Baron is now a member of the Pikes Peak 99s herself. &1xbet sports betting ;They drove me to the airport for my lessons because I wasn't old enough to drive myself and they let me borrow their books. They even gave me two scholarships to help cover my flight expenses.&1xbet sports betting ;
She also worked for a dry-cleaner to make money for lessons. &1xbet sports betting ;I got paid every two weeks, so I got flight time every two weeks,&1xbet sports betting ; she said. The job also provided an unexpected tie to aviation. &1xbet sports betting ;I got to clean a lot of pilot uniforms. When they'd drop them off or pick them up I'd tell them I was taking flying lessons.&1xbet sports betting ;
Baron went from taking lessons to teaching lessons when she became a certified flight instructor for K-State in January 2007. &1xbet sports betting ;I've had students that started with me to get their private pilot's and we've gone all the way through to getting their Certified Flight Instructor-Multi-Engine Instrument rating,&1xbet sports betting ; she said. &1xbet sports betting ;It's a little weird, but very rewarding.&1xbet sports betting ;
Baron's aviation experience is about to come full circle in another way. 1xbet sports betting 's going to fly the F-16s 1xbet sports betting used to watch as a child.
Baron will soon leave for officer training at the Academy of Military Science in Montgomery, Ala. From there 1xbet sports betting 'll head to Pueblo, Colo., for Introductory Flight Screening.
&1xbet sports betting ;In Pueblo I'll learn how the Air Force does things,&1xbet sports betting ; she said.
From there 1xbet sports betting will head to one of four possible locations to spend a year in Undergraduate Pilot Training in a T6 and a T38. 1xbet sports betting will continue to travel around the country as 1xbet sports betting goes through Intro to Fighter Fundamentals, Water Survival School, Land Survival School, and the F-16C Qualification Course.
After that, 1xbet sports betting 'll head to Des Moines, Iowa, to serve in the Iowa Air National Guard.
&1xbet sports betting ;I'll spend two years there full-time,&1xbet sports betting ; she said. &1xbet sports betting ;After that I'll either stay full-time or go to part-time depending on their needs and my career goals. I could definitely stay with them for 20 years or more.&1xbet sports betting ;
&1xbet sports betting ;My family doesn't really have ties to aviation or the military, so they were a little surprised when I told them I wanted to fly fighters for the Air Force. They support me all the way, but when I first told my dad I wanted to fly fighters he said, 'And I want to be the lead guitarist in a rock and roll band. Sometimes those things never happen.'&1xbet sports betting ;
Sometimes they do.