My name is Kyle Sanders and I am majoring in Air Transportation here at The Ohio State University. I have had a love for aviation my whole life and knew from a very young age that flying for an airline was something I wanted to do one day. Frequent trips to the airport to pick up and drop off my dad who travels frequently for his job sparked my curiosity for aviation and kept it rolling throughout the years. My parents have always been very invested in my interest for all things aviation, and have given every effort they could to contribute to my desires for the Aviation world, whether that be taking me to the airport to watch airplanes takeoff and land, or getting take out for birthday dinners and watching airplanes as we ate. Whenever my family would fly places for vacations or other kinds of trips, i would always look in the cockpit of the plane we were flying on, and more often than not, the pilots would invite me up to take a look. Having seen the cockpit of commercial airplanes in person, I knew for sure that I wanted that to be my office one day.
Over this recent Christmas break, I recieved my Private Pilot License, and will begin training for my Intrument Rating soon. After that, I plan on obtaining my Commercial Rating, CFI, CFII, and ATP certificates over the next couple of years. My main goal after graduation is to join a regional airline as a First Officer when I meet the requirements to do so, and one day move on to a mainline carrier. I admire Southwest Airlines’ business model and fun loving culture, and would love to work for them one day. I also have a fascination for the 777 and 787 aircraft, and think it would be very cool to end up in one of those some day. However, I am not picky when it comes to aviation, and I am eager to see where the aviation world takes me in the coming years.