Episode 14- Kathy Fox

Kathy Fox chose air traffic control as a career, first with Transport Canada, and then with NAV CANADA where she held a number of senior management positions, including being the first woman Vice President Operations, from which she retired in 2007. Kathy was subsequently appointed as a Board Member of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) and has served as its Chair since 2014.

 Kathy has also been extensively involved in other aviation activities for over 45 years, including sport parachuting and commercial aviation. She holds an airline transport pilot licence, multi-IFR and Instructor Class I ratings and has flown over 5000 hours. Kathy was a Transport Canada approved Pilot Examiner for over 25 years and still flies part-time as an instructor. 

Kathy has been a trailblazer her entire career and has been the recipient of many honours and awards, including:

Being the first woman and youngest person to be President of the Canadian Sport Parachuting Association, the Transport Canada Aviation Safety Award in 1999, inducted into the Quebec Air and Space Hall of Fame in 2004, the 2010 Elsie MacGill Northern Lights Award in 2010, the prestigious David Charles Abramson Memorial Flight Instructor Safety Award in 2011 in recognition of her exceptional leadership and devotion to the advancement of Canadian aviation safety, and in 2016 was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame as only the 10th woman to be recognized this way. Most recently in 2018, she was inducted into the International Women in Aviation Pioneer Hall of Fame.