Contessa Bishop recalls sitting with her father in the kitchen of their family home when she was around 10 years old, listening to him guess about what the future might be like if she became a pilot.

The picture he painted was a complete fantasy, she said, full of ideas she later debunked. She remembers him guessing pilots worked only half the year for enormous sums of money, flying all over the world to new and exciting places.

“I made the decision [to become a pilot] based on fiction, based on not really knowing why or what I was choosing,” said Bishop, who now flies Bombardier Q400s for Jazz Aviation LP and is an accomplished flight instructor.

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