It was incredibly difficult mentally. Some of the instructors treated me – a woman and a civilian – like an intruder. I remember one of them having a problem with me wearing a black blouse under my flight suit instead of a green one. After two or three hours of flying, hearing what I'd done wrong, and writing reports until midnight, another comment like that makes you think, 'I'm not flying, I've had enough, I'm going home. I'll just be an instr…
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It was incredibly difficult mentally. Some of the instructors treated me – a woman and a civilian – like an intruder. I remember one of them having a problem with me wearing a black blouse under my flight suit instead of a green one. After two or three hours of flying, hearing what I'd done wrong, and writing reports until midnight, another comment like that makes you think, 'I'm not flying, I've had enough, I'm going home. I'll just be an instr…