Have you ever wondered how you can become a qualified Pilot and work for a global airline flying all around the world and get to call that your job? In this episode, Lynsey has a open and honest conversation with Laura Azancot who does just that. After starting her academic career in psychology at University where she initially wanted to train as a Clinical Psychologist, Laura talks about how after not quite getting the grades needed to be accepted on to a Masters she decided she wanted to travel the world and so became cabin crew which was the first step in to her flying career and love of aviation. Fast forward a couple of years (and a lot of training and tears!) Laura became a qualified Pilot, went back to being cabin crew after the credit crunch, piloted private jets in Africa for 4 years to then become a Pilot for British Airways...yes, a really interesting career journey.

Laura gives a genuine account of her time as a Cadet training to become a pilot as well as the hard decisions she has had to make during her career to enable her to do the job she loves whilst also having a family, all of this she has done without ever even being interested in aviation until she was in her 20's!

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