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By the age of six, she informed her parents that she would become an airline pilot. At that time, females were not given the opportunity to fly for major airlines. At age sixteen, her first aviation job was as a ‘line boy’ at a glider port in California. Obtaining her private and commercial glider ratings allowed her to give glider rides for hire. She continued on to get her Private Pilot License, Commercial, Multi-engine, and ATP ratings. At a glider port, she accrued valuable time in taildragger aircraft as a tow pilot. When Transair moved to her local Nut Tree Airport, she started flying with them, ferrying new aircraft from the Cessna factories in Kansas, to the West Coast, and then on to Australia, New Zealand, and throughout the Pacific. Heidi flew 65 over-the-ocean legs of ferry flights. In 1984, on one of these crossings, when the engine quit, she was forced to ditch the fixed-gear Cessna 182 in the Pacific Ocean, 540 miles NNE from her intended destination of Honolulu. 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