{"id":5036,"date":"2023-09-28T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:18:38","slug":"introducing-skyborne-trainee-rachel-hanses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/news-events\/introducing-skyborne-trainee-rachel-hanses\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Skyborne trainee, Rachel Hanses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Rachel Hanses<\/p>

Age:<\/strong> 30<\/p>

Originally from:<\/strong>\u00a0Seattle, WA<\/p>

Skyborne Course:<\/strong>\u00a0Propel Flight Academy by Delta<\/a><\/p>

A bit about me:<\/strong><\/p>

\u201cI grew up in Yakima, Washington, graduating from West Valley High School in 2011. I then went on to study nutrition and play college volleyball at Central Washington University. After\u00a0graduating, I moved down to Houston, TX to complete my dietetic internship through the University of Houston. I was a registered dietitian for 5 years, working in various settings, like a skilled nursing facility, outpatient primary care office, and an eating disorder treatment center.\u00a0<\/p>

After I got back from a 9 week trip through Western Europe and the Middle East! I realized that traveling consistently puts me out of my comfort zone (which I love), so I decided to turn that into my career! Flying planes just also happens to be incredibly fun.\u00a0<\/p>

Other than my 51 hour drive down here, the transition has been smooth! I felt like starting in ground school allowed me to make connections with classmates quickly. I also feel that it\u2019s been a good balance of having a pace that pushes you to work hard, but at the same time allows you time to rest and really soak everything in.\u00a0<\/p>

I decided to come to Skyborne because I want to work for Delta, and this was the fastest way to get there. I also really appreciate that Skyborne fully immerses their students in the experience. I appreciate the professional relationships that skyborne has with companies like Delta and Skywest. As a student, it makes it a lot easier for me to connect with those companies; I can get to where I want to get more efficiently.\u00a0<\/p>

My advice to anybody looking to train here would be to find somebody in the program and ask them for advice! I wish I would have had somebody give me more of a rundown on the day to day stuff here at Skyborne, as well as what to expect in the beginning. “<\/p>

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Name:\u00a0Rachel Hanses Age: 30 Originally from:\u00a0Seattle, WA Skyborne Course:\u00a0Propel Flight Academy by Delta A bit about me: \u201cI grew up in Yakima, Washington, graduating from West Valley High School in 2011. I then went on to study nutrition and play college volleyball at Central Washington University. After\u00a0graduating, I moved down to Houston, TX to complete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crosspost_to_3":false,"_crosspost_to_4":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"skyborne_type":[29],"skyborne_region":[14],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilot-pathways","skyborne_type-hear-from-our-students","skyborne_region-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"skyborne_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skyborne_type?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"skyborne_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyborne.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/skyborne_region?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}