{"id":12016,"date":"2019-08-14T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2019-08-14T12:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:17:47","slug":"women-wings-fo-marissa-colclasure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/08\/14\/women-wings-fo-marissa-colclasure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Women with Wings: FO Marissa Colclasure"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just like a spectacular sunrise or a crashing ocean wave, each one may look similar but they are unique in many ways. The same can be said about a pilot.<\/p>\n
Yes, they might wear the same uniform and have a penchant for systematic thinking, but no two pilots are exactly the same. Envoy First Officer Marissa Colclasure is not your typical pilot, and not your typical woman for that matter.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s a single mother of three, a skydiver and wing walker, and the daughter of a father that passed away too soon. As a pilot, she leans more toward a Type B personality with a strong favoring of emotional intelligence over systemic knowledge.<\/p>\n
She doesn\u2019t log hours, she logs adventures. In fact, you can see all of her adventures with her three little copilots on her Instagram page @barefoot_flying_mom.<\/a><\/p>\n Lucky for us, Marissa was kind enough to give us a little peek of her life as a \u201csingle-mama pilot\u201d and what it means to fly and continue her father\u2019s legacy. Read her interview below!<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Describe the feeling during your discovery flight.<\/strong><\/span> Although, I didn\u2019t realize as a kid that we didn\u2019t own all the planes at the flight school. I thought we had access to all these amazing birds and we were caretakers.<\/p>\n After the loss of your father, did you continue to fly for him?<\/span> <\/strong> It\u2019s very much a closing of a chapter. I know that he\u2019s with me when I fly.<\/p>\n What is a lesson you learned from him that still sticks with you today?<\/strong><\/span> I didn\u2019t have to \u201cbuild time,\u201d because I was an adventurer and I still am. Some pilots view their flight hours as these ticks and numbers on a logbook, and I see my logbook as pages of wildly romantic adventures with the sky.<\/p>\nFor the love of the skies<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nMy discovery flight was all throughout my childhood. My dad was a pilot at a flight school and he would often take us flying.<\/p>\n
\nNo. I have always known that I, me, Marissa, wanted to fly for me. But, I will say that\u00a0each step and certification through my flight training was probably the closest thing to therapy I could think of.<\/p>\n
\nThe journey is the destination<\/em>. That played such a huge part of how I see life; life was already magical.<\/p>\n