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She started her writing and teaching career in the field of commercial aviation and pilot training and published not only several books, but also her own successful flight and travel magazine “USA BY AIR”, for a European audience of over 30,000 subscribers, and thousands of magazine buyers in three German-speaking countries.
Magazine and Book Publisher
She learned a lot in these years as a magazine publisher: editor-art-director-marketing-manager and later started also self-publishing books, mainly technical and non-fiction books in the world of aviation.
E-Publishing and Book Marketing
At Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada, she studied e-publishing and marketing, including web and graphic design, professional photography, writing for the web, editing, investigative journalism, social media, and e-marketing.
Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers' Favorite
To Live is to Fly: Memoirs of an Executive Pilot by Doris Daily is a swift peek inside the lifestyle of an executive corporate pilot. Early on, Doris had no great ambitions to be a pilot. A pilot needed to be good at mathematics and physics and that simply wasn’t Doris’s thing. She was more interested in the arts and so, when a friend suggested she take a radio course, it ignited a passion inside her to learn to fly and to ultimately become a commercial pilot during a period when female commercial pilots were still a real rarity. Living in Europe meant that Doris’s professional career was always going to offer unusual and exciting destinations with lots of variations. In this story, she documents the journey she took in a “man’s world” and how flying became as critical to her life as breathing. Along the way she gives advice on how to avoid some of the pitfalls she encountered, especially as she makes a comparison of the pros and cons between commercial piloting for an airline and the corporate executive flying, which she preferred.
This is a short book about a life that no doubt had its fair share of adventure. To Live is to Fly: Memoirs of an Executive Pilot really is the story of one woman’s passion and love of aviation. Her sheer pleasure in her job shone through on every page. Author Doris Daily’s writing style is simple and uncomplicated and I found the anecdotes both funny and interesting. Of special interest were her dealings with airport officials in Soviet Bloc countries both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was fascinating to view the differences between the two Germanys that still clearly existed even after reunification. As someone who has a deep fascination with air travel and has never pursued it, Daily’s story allowed me to vicariously live the life of a pilot and understand that it is not always about glamour and glitz - it is the love of flying that commands pilots to stick at it. I thought her comparisons between the life of an airline pilot and that of an executive corporate pilot were very telling and it was clear she felt she had made the right choice of a career path in aviation. This is a fascinating read and I can definitely recommend this book.
