Good luck to her but you have to ask - if it had been a 19 year old boy instead of a cute looking girl, would AOPA have run the story and would there be any social media interest?
Potentially not, but one can't forget commercial helicopter flying is still very much a male dominated world so not easy for females to break into it.
As you say good luck to her, the only thing I'm jealous about is getting a free box of snickers, if I was working a fire with her I would ask her to share those
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hueyracer; would you not facilitate your child if they wanted to fly helicopters and you were in a position to do so?