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We Are Pilots.You Can Be Too

On November 2, 2016, Tonia Fox, Kim Galvin, and I – all paraglider pilots in the SF Bay Area – talked to a group of middle school girls from East Palo Alto about paragliding. We were invited by Rocket Fuel and Kiwoba Allaire, as part of the Girls of Color in STEM Education afterschool program sponsored by Rocket Fuel and <a href=”http://www.kiwobacares.org/”> Kiwoba CARES</a>.

We Are Pilots.You Can Be Too provides an introduction and simple overview of paragliding. We verbally described what was happening while watching the video. Currently the video is only available as-is; it will be updated later to include voiceover (or perhaps caption text) with the narrative. After the video, we went outside and the girls all got to try on our gear,  sit in harnesses hung from tree branches, and talk to each other on the radio.

The video was conceived and created by Julie Spiegler, with tons of support and additional footage from the paragliding community.

Pilots:
Julie Williams
Kim Browder
Julie Spiegler
Rachel Nanni
Denise Reed
Kari Castle
Becca Bredehoft
Dawn Westrum
Becky Brim
Gever Tulley
Lots of other pilots in Pacifica, Ruch, and Chelan

Video:
Julie Spiegler
Kari Castle and Isabel Ledesma (Women With Wings, karicastle.com)
Cade Palmer
Dawn Westrum
Todd Weigand (paraglidingtrips.com)
Becca Bredehoft (http://rebeccabredehoft.com)
Becky Brim
(mystery pilot at Potato Hill)

Music (all licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0):
— From Free Music Archive
Inspiration by BoxCat Games
B-3 by BoxCat Games
Mt Fox Shop by BoxCat Games
— From CC Mixter
Organometronic by Alex Beroza
Emerge by Alex Beroza
I dunno by grapes

Thanks everyone!

We Are Pilots.Two – Part II “Follow Me…”


This is Part II of the trilogy continuing the story where We Are Pilots. left off. In We Are Pilots.Two Part I we were introduced to XC (cross country) paragliding – what it is and why we do it.

We Are Pilots.Two Part II gives a peek into how to get started going XC.

Conceived and created by Julie Spiegler, with tons of support and additional footage from the paragliding community.

Pilots:
Becca Bredehoft
Becky Brim
Dawn Westrum
Donneta Grizzell
Kari Castle
Julie Spiegler
Magali L. Legault
Nikole Neal
Susan Kent
Everyone at Kari’s 2012 Women with Wings Clinic

Video and Photos by:
Becca Bredehoft (http://rebeccabredehoft.com)
Becky Brim
Dawn Westrum
Isabel Ledesma
Julie Spiegler
Kari Castle
Loren Cox (http://flickr.com/photos/skivvie)
Michelle Zeidman
Nikole Neal
Rat Race PG (http://mphsports.com)
Terri Olsen
Tim O’Neill

Music by:
Teru – Plunktrack, licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0 through ccMixter

Thanks everyone!

Specific content credits can be found here: Credits

We Are Pilots.Two – Part I “Zero to …”


This is Part I of the trilogy continuing the story where We Are Pilots. left off. In We Are Pilots. we were introduced to the women who fly paragliders.

We Are Pilots.Two Part I introduces us to XC (cross country) paragliding – what it is and why we do it.

Conceived and created by Julie Spiegler, with tons of support and additional footage from the paragliding community.

Pilots:
Becca Bredehoft
Becky Brim
Dawn Westrum
Debbie Vosevich
Donneta Grizzell
Kari Castle
Julie Spiegler
Magali L. Legault
Melanie Pfister
Nikole Neal
Susan Kent

Video and Photos by:
Becca Bredehoft (http://rebeccabredehoft.com)
Becky Brim
Cade Palmer
Dawn Westrum
Debbie Vosevich
Isabel Ledesma
Julie Spiegler
Kari Castle
Loren Cox (http://flickr.com/photos/skivvie)
Neil McGarry
Nikole Neal
Terri Olsen
Todd Weigand (http://paraglidingtrips.com)

Music by:
Broke for Free – Our Ego [Featuring Different Visitor], licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0 through Free Music Archive

Thanks everyone!

Specific content credits can be found here: Credits

We Are Pilots.Two – Trailer


Created for the NorCal Free Flight Film Festival (Jan 2014), this is the extended trailer for the upcoming trilogy continuing the story where We Are Pilots. left off. In We Are Pilots. we were introduced to the women who fly paragliders. We Are Pilots.Two introduces us to XC (cross country) paragliding, competition paragliding, and how one leads to the other.

Featured are the top US women pilots, Kari Castle and Melanie Pfister (with 8 US Womens National Championships between them), along with women representing a wide variety of perspectives on XC and competition – providing both stories of flight and tips for getting started.

Part I “Zero to …” is now online: We Are Pilots.Two – Part I

Thanks to everyone at the NorCal Free Flight V Festival – it was a great show, and I really appreciate receiving the prize (a cool FlyNet 2.0 vario!) for best paragliding film.

Conceived and created by Julie Spiegler, with tons of support and additional footage from the paragliding community.

Pilots:
Becca Bredehoft
Becky Brim
Dawn Westrum
Debbie Vosevich
Kari Castle
Julie Spiegler
Melanie Pfister
Nikole Neal
Susan Kent

Video and Photos by:
Becca Bredehoft (rebeccabredehoft.com)
Becky Brim
Cade Palmer
Dawn Westrum
Debbie Vosevich
Gever Tulley
Isabel Ledesma
Jimmy Chin (Armada Paragliding)
Julie Spiegler
Kari Castle
Loren Cox (flickr.com/photos/skivvie)
Matt Senior
Melanie Pfister
Neil McGarry
Nikole Neal
Rat Race PG
Terri Olsen
US Paragliding Team (usparaglidingteam.org)

We Are Pilots.

The original We Are Pilots. film. Also known as We Are Pilots.one – some of the stories of women who fly.

We Are Pilots.
Amy Posey
Angelique Kamara
Ann Sasaki
Anna Kay von Dueszeln
Christel Cherry
Deb Vosevich
Denise Reed
Donneta Grizzell
Julie Spiegler
Julie Williams
Karen Holtemann
Kari Castle
Kim Galvin
Lori Dirks
Lori Fitzgerald
Magali L. Legault
Margaret Williams
Mayumi Honda
Melanie Pfister
Nikole (Sklavos) Neal
Pam Nichols
Patricia Hopper
Susan Kent

Video and Photos by:
Bob & Amy Posey
Drew McNabb
Jesse Meyer
Julie Spiegler

Music licensed under Creative Commons through Free Music Archive :
Risey – Memories of Thailand (Beat Doctor’s ‘stuck in Britain’ remix)
Possimiste – The Flight of Lulu
Broke for Free – Something Elated

Conceived and created by Julie Spiegler.

Thanks everyone!

Specific content credits can be found here: Credits