{{Short description|Swiss pilot (born 1991)}} {{Multiple issues| {{more footnotes|date=February 2019}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2019}} {{Citation style|date=June 2023}} }} {{Infobox military person |name=Fanny Chollet |birth_date=1991 |death_date= |birth_place= Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Switzerland |death_place= |burial_place= |image= |caption= |nickname="Shotty" |allegiance={{flag|Switzerland}} |branch= Swiss Air Force |service_years=2012–present |rank= x25px Captain |commands= |battles= |awards= |relations= |other_work= }}
'''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.<ref>[https://www.blick.ch/news/politik/sie-ist-the-first-schweizer-kampfjet-pilotin-fanny-shotty-chollet-26-startet-durch-id7757498.html She will become the first female Swiss fighter pilot]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pulverturm-zofingen.ch/news/news-aus-der-presse---archiv/fanny-chollet-_-erste-frau-in-schweizer-kampfjet.html |title=Fanny Chollet - First woman in a Swiss fighter jet |access-date=2018-12-15 |archive-date=2019-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427165533/https://www.pulverturm-zofingen.ch/news/news-aus-der-presse---archiv/fanny-chollet-_-erste-frau-in-schweizer-kampfjet.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/erste-fa-18-pilotin-der-schweiz-so-hart-war-fannys-weg-ins-kampfjet-cockpit-id7764097.html First woman F/A-18 pilot in Switzerland]</ref><ref> [http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/news/story/This-wife-protected-the-Switzerland-from-23226654 She is the first female Swiss fighter pilot]</ref><ref>[https://www.blick.ch/news/politik/grosser-auftritt-von-fanny-chollet-in-payerne-vd-shotty-27-die-erste-kampfjet-pilotin-der-schweiz-id15176388.html Blick Newspaper, «Fanny Chollet ist ein Leuchtturm für uns»]</ref> She is a career officer in the Swiss Air Force and currently holds the rank of Captain.<ref>[https://bulletin-1.ch/wer-ist-hauptmann-fanny-chollet/ ''Wer ist Hauptmann Fanny Chollet?''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629093132/https://bulletin-1.ch/wer-ist-hauptmann-fanny-chollet/ |date=2020-06-29 }}, bulletin-1.ch, 27 June 2020</ref>
== Career == Fanny "Shotty" Chollet graduated from Pully High School with a baccalaureate in biology and chemistry.<ref>Rolf Müller: ''Träume haben Flügel''. In: ''Cockpit - Das Schweizer Luftfahrt-Magazin'', No。 2 / February 2018, p. 46. ([https://www.cockpit.aero/fileadmin/seiteninhalt/magazin/2018/web_cockpit_02_18.pdf Online])</ref><ref>[https://www.vtg.admin.ch/de/organisation/kdo-op.detail.news.html/vtg-internet/verwaltung/2019/19-02/lw---erste-kampfjetpilotin-der-schweizer-armee.html Erste Kampfjetpilotin der Schweizer Armee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924160719/https://www.vtg.admin.ch/de/organisation/kdo-op.detail.news.html/vtg-internet/verwaltung/2019/19-02/lw---erste-kampfjetpilotin-der-schweizer-armee.html |date=2020-09-24 }} on the website of the Swiss Army.</ref> 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.<ref name="NZZ">''[https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/kampfjets-die-schweiz-hat-ihre-erste-pilotin-fuer-fa-18-ld.1461039 Die Schweiz hat erstmals eine Kampfjetpilotin]''. In: NZZ, 19 February 2019.</ref>
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.<ref name="NZZ" /> 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).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comité – RIO |url=https://appa-ecuvillens.ch/comite/ |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=appa-ecuvillens.ch |archive-date=2017-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206072242/https://appa-ecuvillens.ch/comite/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition, she campaigned in 2020 as an ambassador for the “Swiss Tecladies” program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TecLadies suchen begeisterte Tec-Meitlis |url=https://www.technische-rundschau.ch/news/detail/tecladies-suchen-begeisterte-tec-meitlis/ |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=TECHNISCHE RUNDSCHAU |date=16 March 2020 |language=de}}</ref> She was committed to the campaign for the procurement of new combat aircraft.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-24 |title=Kampagne für die Kampfjets - Mit Fanny Chollet und ohne die alten Gripen-Fehler |url=https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/kampagne-fuer-die-kampfjets-mit-fanny-chollet-und-ohne-die-alten-gripen-fehler |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) |language=de}}</ref>
== Aircraft types == * Pilatus PC-7 * Pilatus PC-21 * F/A-18C * F/A-18D
== Weblinks Single references == * [http://psk.blog.24heures.ch/archive/2019/02/19/la-premiere-suissesse-qualifiee-sur-f-a-18-hornet-866976.html Fanny Chollet on Public Q&A with Commander of the Swiss Air Force Bernhard Müller. (French language text)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220003014/http://psk.blog.24heures.ch/archive/2019/02/19/la-premiere-suissesse-qualifiee-sur-f-a-18-hornet-866976.html |date=2019-02-20 }} * [https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/die-erste-ihrer-art-shotty-wusste-schon-im-gymi-dass-sie-kampfjetpilotin-werden-will-134106994 Aargauer Zeitung] * [https://www.nau.ch/politik/bundeshaus/schweizer-armee-braucht-frauen-wie-fanny-chollet-65486078 Schweizer Armee braucht Frauen wie Fanny Chollet Die Erste ihrer Art: «Shotty» wusste schon im Gymi, dass sie Kampfjetpilotin werden will] * [https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/Fanny-Chollet-Die-erste-Frau-in-einem-FA-18-Cockpit/story/24495067 Fanny Chollet: Die erste Frau in einem F/A-18-Cockpit] * [https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/waadtlaenderin-fliegt-f-a-18-die-schweiz-hat-ihre-erste-kampfjet-pilotin 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 annual publishing) Frontcover & Pages 7-11. December 2019 {{ISBN|978-3-9524427-6-0}}
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