HAI Scholarship Opens Doors Rahane will be able to obtain her CHPL thanks in part to HAI, from which she received the HAI Commercial Helicopter Pilot Rating Scholarship in 2022 after learn- ing about the association through a Google search. The scholarship included a cash award of $5,000 toward the cost of obtain- ing the rating. The funds are helping Rahane overcome a major impediment to her dreams. “Financing helicopter training is the biggest obstacle,” she says, echoing the senti- ments of many aviation students. “The HAI scholarship is giving me an opportunity to focus on my flight training and achieve my target.” Rahane says winning the HAI scholar- ship means a lot to her and shows there are people in the industry who believe in her and support her dreams. “[Winning the scholarship] boosts my confidence and inspires me to wake up every day and work
As an HAI scholarship winner, Rahane received complimentary admission to HAI HELI-EXPO 2023, where she had the opportunity to meet HAI President and CEO James Viola and learn more about the vertical aviation industry. (HAI/f-stop Photography)
on my goal [of obtaining a CHPL],” a goal that was just 15 flight hours away as of this writing in May 2023. Rahane hopes to be an example for
other young women thinking of becoming helicopter pilots. “If society starts seeing more women helicopter pilots, more girls
will get inspired,” she explains. “This is a mindset shift for parents. ‘If someone else’s daughter can become a helicopter pilot, my daughter can also do it,’ they’ll think. That will be the biggest achievement I could do in my life. I want to be a trail- blazer.”
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