Colleen Mondor's guest appearances

Colleen Mondor

The Inspired Pilot Podcast

Memoir

AKconvo

Patty Wagstaff

Lauren Richardson

Owen Zupp

Dean Siracusa

Patrick Smith

Richard Graham

Matt Dearden

Chris Puddy

Karlene Petitt

Darren Fuller

Karen Kahn

Polly Vacher

Mike Weeks

Jeremy Robertson

Don Sebastian

OwlTail

Flying is a way of life in Alaska.  Alaskan's rely on airplanes for transportation, medical care, and for cargo.  Casey talks with Colleen Mondor about the terrible no good year for air carriers in 2019.  The conversation begins with an interesting story of early travel in Alaska.  Colleen touches on the important turning point crashes in our history and the alarming record of Alaska's largest rural carrier RAVN air group.

AKConvo #010 - 2019, A Terrible Year For Flying | Colleen Mondor

Colleen Mondor is a freelance writer and the author of The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska.  Colleen contributes regularly to Alaska Dispatch News, writing about Alaska aviation, and owns an aircraft leasing company with her husband.

<p>Colleen Mondor is a freelance writer and the author of The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska. </p> <p>Colleen contributes regularly to Alaska Dispatch News, writing about Alaska aviation, and owns an aircraft leasing company with her husband.</p>

20: Colleen Mondor - Private Pilot, Alaska Aviation Writer & Author

Colleen Mondor learned to fly at age eighteen and has degrees in aviation, history and northern studies. Her book, The Map of My Dead Pilots, is based on her experiences as lead dispatcher at a Part 135 (commercial) air carrier based in Fairbanks.  "The 'Company' had bases in multiple bush locations and flew single-engine, multi-engine and twin turbine aircraft carrying everything from scheduled passengers and mail to convicts and sled dogs. There were incidents and accidents, moments of Pythonesque absurdity and brain-numbing hard work. It was never the profession I learned about in the classroom nor the glory stories so popular in modern myth…It is the story of the people who worked at one Alaskan commuter and the culmination of my efforts to understand how commercial pilots live and die in the Last Frontier. “

 The Map of My Dead Pilots with Author Colleen Mondor 