Aviation group looking for future pilots, girls included

TAMPA, Fla. — The office view is a little different if you’re a pilot.

What You Need To Know • 11th Girls in Aviation, courtesy of Women in Aviation, this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. • Location: Tampa International Airport's Sheltair, 4751 Jim Walter Blvd., Tampa • Free event, but registration is required here

Victoria Jones used to be a salesperson for the banking industry in a building.

Now she’s a flight instructor at Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands in Tampa, and a leader at the Women in Aviation organization .

“I used to travel a lot for my job, so every time I got on an airplane, I would peek inside the cockpit,” Jones said. “I’d just see all the buttons and switches and just thought, ‘I wonder how hard that would be.’”

So she took what’s called a discovery fli