Julie Boatman, editor-in-chief of Flying Magazine, talks about her books, her career progression, her position at Flying Magazine and the proficiency program Flying Magazine is currently promoting
Julie Boatman joined Flying Magazine in May 2019 as associate editor and has made her career in the aviation industry, first as a flight instructor in Colorado, then by obtaining her first full-time writing job as an editor at Jeppesen Sanderson. From there, she moved to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association as technical editor of their publications, then on to the role of manager of Cessna Pilot Centers at Cessna Aircraft Company before returning to Jeppesen under Boeing Flight Services as manager of the Aviation Training Solutions group. In 2014, she founded JulietBravoFox Media, an aviation marketing and consulting company, delivering on flight-training contracts in Portugal, from 2015 to 2017.
She holds flight instructor and airline transport pilot certificates, with Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation Mustang type ratings, along with a commercial glider rating. In 2011, she published “Together We Fly: Voices from the DC-3,” and in 2018, “Honest Vision: The Donald Douglas Story,” both by ASA.