CLEARWATER, Fla. — Every time 15-year-old Afton Kincade climbs into the cockpit she’s simply not simply flying for herself however for everybody on the market with goals of being a pilot.

Kincade typically channels her internal Top Gun at any time when she’s close to an plane.

“I never get nervous when I’m up there, it’s honestly a calming state, so if I’m nervous on the ground when I’m up there it’s complete zen,” mentioned Kincade.

Kincade’s admiration for aviation goes again to when she was three years previous. She had her first alternative to fly a airplane at age eight, with supervision in fact.

“When I knew I wanted to be a pilot is definitely that first time, I was really able to be in control of the airplane, I was like, ‘you know this is what I really want to do, this is the aircraft I want to be flying, and what I want my future to be,” mentioned Kincade.

However, she needed to battle for each lesson she obtained, being a younger woman in a male-dominated subject wasn’t straightforward.

“It’s definitely challenging going through this profession at a young age because other people are like, ‘you are too small we can’t train you until you are 16,’” mentioned Kincade.

However, her perseverance didn’t go unnoticed, this yr Kincade is being acknowledged nationally in a Microsoft advert marketing campaign.

She’s one of many faces of their new Flight Simulator as she continues to show that the sky is the restrict.

“I don’t do it just for myself, but I do it for the others who actually don’t think about aviation as their career, they’re like, ‘oh I can’t do that I’m just a girl,’ or ‘I’m too young,’ well I feel like they should do anything that they want to do and if that’s really something that they want to do they should totally go for it,” mentioned Kincade.

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