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Almost from wheels-up, Sophie Hersey was hooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was around 2018, and the aeronautical engineering student from London, Ont., was 13 years old, taking off on her first airline flight on a vacation to Mexico. Within minutes, she knew she wanted to touch the sky again, whenever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I was taken off the ground, I got that urge to fly,\u201d said Hersey in an interview from her dorm at Royal Military College (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., where she enrolled in 2023 after graduating from the TVDSB aviation program at Montcalm Secondary School in southeast London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI knew I wanted to do something with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue reading this article about high school aviation programs in the February\/March 2024 issue of Skies magazine.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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High school aviation programs have become an integral part of the industry-wide effort to solve Canada\u2019s pilot and AME shortages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":354752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[99054,42,99328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354750","features","type-features","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-general-aviation","category-training","entry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features\/354750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/features"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiesmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}