Ann Soloed!!

​Wait a second…two posts back-to-back for the marvelous Ann Leeper?! That's right, April's pilot of the month, Ann Leeper, kicked her flight instructor, Matthew Helleckson, out of the airplane at KRTS this morning (we don’t blame her) and "leeped" her way into the sky, soloing on runway 26! With friends and family actively watching her from thousands of miles away in Alaska, Ann had all eyes on her. Buttering all three landings, Matt urged her do another lap, but the mountain biker responded by saying "something always goes wrong when you say one more." Cool Ann fact; she soloed in the same plane, at the same airport, and same runway as her husband. She just did it better ;) When she's not here being an incredible pilot, you can find Ann out mountain biking, drinking a cup of Joe early in the morning on her deck, tolerating her husband Chris (another GBA pilot), or working hard as a local arborist. What an amazing accomplishment and a memorable morning before the winds hit. Huge congratulations to Ann and her instructors on this incredible milestone!!