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Podcast: Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
Episode: Airline Captain Heidi A. Porch talks about her memoir Ditching the Sky about a ferry flight engine failure 540 miles from Hawaii, a Cold War rescue, and the long road from ocean ditching to the 747
Description: Send a textHeidi Porch was 540 miles east-northeast of Hawaii when her engine began losing oil pressure.She was 500 feet above the Pacific when she turned off the master switch and prepared to ditch.In this episode, Heidi joins me to talk about Ditching the Sky, her gripping memoir of ferrying single-engine Cessnas across the Pacific in the 1980s—and the day her engine quit over open ocean.We talk about:Growing up with a dream of becoming an airline pilotBuilding time as a glider pilot and ferry pilotFlying 17-hour le...