Fanny Chollet

 'Fanny' Shotty 'Chollet'  (* 1991 in Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz) is the first fighter jet pilot of the Switzerland. She is F / A-18 pilot at Swiss Air Force. She is a career officer in the rank of first lieutenant. She is thus the first female pilot outside North America.

life
Fanny "Shotty" Chollet graduated from Pully High School with a baccalaureate in biology and chemistry. She has earned a living at the military airfields Dübendorf and Alpnach Alpnach Air Base. Since 2012 Chollet has been employed by the Swiss Air Force and is a member of the pilot class 11 in the pilot school in  Emmen. She completed her first part of her education with a civilian commercial pilot license from Swiss Aviation Training (SAT, now Lufthansa Aviation Training) and a Bachelor in Aviation from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur. This was followed by the one-year phases on  PC-7 and  PC-21. In early 2018, the training for the F / A-18 in the simulator and with F / A-18D double-seaters. On March 18, she completed her first solo flight in a F / A-18C (single-seater). She is assigned to the Fliegerstaffel 18 in Payerne and speaks fluently French English, German and Swiss German.

Aircraft types

 * Pilatus PC-7
 * Pilatus PC-21
 * F / A-18 C
 * F / A-18D

Weblinks Single references

 * Externs image "Shotty" in F / A-18C
 * Externs image "Shotty" next to an F-5 Tiger
 * She becomes the first Swiss fighter pilot
 * First F / A-18 pilot in Switzerland
 * She is the first Swiss fighter pilot
 * "That's finally real emancipation!»
 * Fanny Chollet - First wife in swiss fighter jet