Fanny Chollet
Quick Facts
Biography
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, and the first female F/A-18 pilot outside North America. She is a career officer in the Swiss Air Force and currently holds the rank of first lieutenant.
Career
Fanny ("Shotty")Chollet graduated from Pully High School with a baccalaureate in biology and chemistry. She has worked at the military airfields in Payerne, Dübendorf and Alpnach. In 2012 Chollet joined the Swiss Air Force and is a member of Pilot Class 11 in the pilot school in Emmen. She completed the first part of her education by earning 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 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.
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.
Aircraft types
- Pilatus PC-7
- Pilatus PC-21
- F/A-18C
- F/A-18D
Weblinks Single references
- Externs image "Shotty" in F / A-18C
- Externs image "Shotty" next to an F-5 Tiger
- She will become the first female Swiss fighter pilot
- First woman F/A-18 pilot in Switzerland
- She is the first female Swiss fighter pilot
- "That's finally real emancipation!»
- Fanny Chollet - First woman in a Swiss fighter jet
- Fanny Chollet on Public Q&A with Commander of the Swiss Air Force Bernhard Müller. (French language text)
- Blick Newspaper, «Fanny Chollet ist ein Leuchtturm für uns»
- Aargauer Zeitung *Schweizer Armee braucht Frauen wie Fanny CholletDie 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 ISSN 1424-3482
- Schweizer Luftwaffe Jahrespublikation 2020 (Swiss Air Force anual publishing) Frontcover & Pages 7-11. December 2019 ISBN 978-3-9524427-6-0
- Swiss commercial newspaper. December 2019. Fanny Chollet, in 2020 with Viola Amherd in the voting campaign for new military aircraft.