We love this! ISA+21 member, Captain Linda Pauwels, with her children following in her footsteps! Congratulations! ??
More than twenty five years after this family photo appeared in the Orange County Register, we have another pilot in the family! Congratulations to our son Patrick Pauwels on earning his Private Pilot certificate. He joins dad Frederick, retired JAL B-747 captain, sister Nathalie, Commercial Pilot, CFI, CFII, and her husband Spencer McDermott, ATP. Patrick got an early start, ‘riding along’ with me for six months in the flight deck of an AA A-300, when the FAA changed aeromedical rules to allow pilots to fly while pregnant. Aviation is a community and it takes a supportive network to form and train a pilot. Thank you CA Charlie Curreri, PhD, LPC for your continued guidance and Felipe Santiago of Aviator Zone Academy, LLC for the great training.