“It’s a small world” is the chorus of a song that’s looped incessantly at Disney amusement parks, and so it became the theme of this year’s Women in Aviation International conference, held in Orlando, Florida at the Disney Coronado Springs resort. I came to Orlando for the conference in a rather foul mood and not much interested in being captivated by the Magic of Disney, but otherwise very interested in talking with other pilots about the work I do.
The “big sky” theory of flying was quickly dispelled for me this weekend, because just when I thought I was adrift in a wild sea, I found friends I didn’t even know I had, people I could count on, very close to home.