Fanny "Shotty" Chollet (born 1991 in Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz) is the first woman in Switzerland to fly a jet fighter plane, the F/A-18.She will become the first female Swiss fighter pilotFirst woman F/A-18 pilot in Switzerland She is the first female Swiss fighter pilot Blick Newspaper, «Fanny Chollet ist ein Leuchtturm für uns» She is a career officer in the Swiss Air Force and currently holds the rank of Captain.Wer ist Hauptmann Fanny Chollet? , bulletin-1.ch, 27 June 2020
Career Fanny "Shotty" Chollet graduated from Pully High School with a baccalaureate in biology and chemistry.Rolf Müller: Träume haben Flügel. In: Cockpit - Das Schweizer Luftfahrt-Magazin, No。 2 / February 2018, p. 46. (Online)Erste Kampfjetpilotin der Schweizer Armee on the website of the Swiss Army. She performed her military service in the aviation troops at the military airfields Payerne, Dübendorf and Alpnach. In 2012, Chollet was selected as a military pilot for the Swiss Air Force and joined Pilot Class 11 in the Swiss Air Force Pilot School in Emmen. She completed the first part of her education by earning a civilian commercial pilot license with instrument rating (CPL/IR) and airline transport pilot license theory (frozen ATPL) from Swiss Aviation Training (SAT, now Lufthansa Aviation Training) and a Bachelor of Science in Aviation from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur. This was followed by one-year stints on the PC-7 and the PC-21. She is the first woman to fly the Pilatus PC-21. In December 2017, she received her military pilot's license.Die Schweiz hat erstmals eine Kampfjetpilotin. In: NZZ, 19 February 2019.
In early 2018, she began her F/A-18 training in the simulator and with F/A-18D double-seaters. On March 18, she completed her first solo flight in an F/A-18C (single-seater). She is assigned to the Fliegerstaffel 18 squadron in Payerne. She is fluent in French, English, German, and Swiss German.
Chollet is a member of the Appa (L'Andociation pour la Promotion du Patrimoine Aéronautique). In addition, she campaigned in 2020 as an ambassador for the “Swiss Tecladies” program. She was committed to the campaign for the procurement of new combat aircraft.
Aircraft types Pilatus PC-7 Pilatus PC-21 F/A-18C F/A-18D
Weblinks Single references Fanny Chollet on Public Q&A with Commander of the Swiss Air Force Bernhard Müller. (French language text) Aargauer Zeitung Schweizer Armee braucht Frauen wie Fanny Chollet Die Erste ihrer Art: «Shotty» wusste schon im Gymi, dass sie Kampfjetpilotin werden will Fanny Chollet: Die erste Frau in einem F/A-18-Cockpit TV News Report "Tagesschau" Waadtländerin fliegt F/A-18 defensio.1-2019 (April 2019) "Mit Überschall am helevtischen Himmel (With supersonic in to the helevetic sky). Page 10 - 15 "Erste Schweizer F/A-18 Pilotin" Schweizer Soldat, April 2019 Page 18 & 19 Schweizer Luftwaffe Jahrespublikation 2020 (Swiss Air Force annual publishing) Frontcover & Pages 7-11. December 2019