Kris Dahlke, a former U.S. Air Force F-16 avionics technician, was 34 when he started flying the line at PSA this past November, a professional move he began working on just two years before at ATP Flight School’s St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) location, just west of Tampa. But Dahlke’s aviation career actually began many years before when he was a kid, the “military brat” of another U.S. Air Force maintenance technician. “I was always interested in going to the airport when my dad was deployed.” But a career as a professional pilot—that just didn’t come together right away for this Tampa, Florida, native.
Kris Dahlke, First Officer at PSA
