Rhonda Miles
 

Rhonda's love affair with flying began at home. Her dad was a crop duster in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and her mother ran the office during the flying season. Rhonda's first flight came at the age of three months. Some of her earliest memories are of riding in the ag-planes and taking naps on asphalt ramps under the wings of airplanes. She eventually became a "flagger" standing in the fields with a flag to mark the rows for her father who would always be her biggest aviation influence.

Rhonda's first child was nearly born in an airplane. Then 20, Rhonda was overdue with her son Jake, when she and her dad decided to go up to do some aerobatics. Two hours later, she was undergoing an emergency caesarean.

After the death of her brother in a plane crash ten years ago Rhonda helped her parents with their business, even trying her hand at some ag flying. She then worked on other ratings and got involved in other aspects of aviation, even going to the jungles of Vanuatu to search for the remains of a pilot who crashed in W.W.II.

In 1992, she got her instructor's rating, bought a J3 Cub and started instructing in tailwheel or "tail-dragger" airplanes. This uncommon type of instructing led to her being known as the Cub Lady, and it was in this capacity "that she met Nikki Mitchell, who came to her for instruction.