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TORONTO For the first time in the 30-year history of the First Nations Technical Institute s aviation program, a flight training crew is all female. Rainbow Ford, who had her commercial flight test in December, told CTV s Your Morning she didn t think about the significance of having both a female instructor and examiner until a few days before her exam. I don t think it s ever happened before and at the time I was like, I wonder if this has ever happened like ever in the country, because it s pretty different, Ford explained in an interview on Wednesday. We re one of the only First Nations flight schools so it’s definitely a first for our school and I thought that was so cool, she added.
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Flight instructor Daniella Petitti, commercial flight student Rainbow Ford, and pilot examiner Jo-Anne Tabobandung.(Submitted by Joanne Tabobandung)
For the first time in an Indigenous flight program s history, the student, instructor and examiner are all First Nations women. When I found out that [the] chief flight instructor was a woman, I was so excited because until FNTI I ve never known another female pilot, said Rainbow Ford. When I was gearing up for the flight test and got thinking about it, I was so excited about the fact that both my instructor and my flight examiner were female and Indigenous. That just blew my mind.