"In this world it is important to be a candle or a mirror that reflects it."
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MayCay Beeler was born in our Nation's Capitol and grew up in the Washington Metropolitan area. After a brief stint as a Cowgirl working summer jobs in Wyoming, attending Montana State University, and graduating from the University of Kentucky, Beeler found her niche on the small screen and in the big sky.

Beeler's professional broadcasting career began as a Co-Host for the popular syndicated TV show PM MAGAZINE at WATE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her flying career took flight from these same roots.

Beeler is best known in the Carolinas for her appearances on PM MAGAZINE at WFMY-TV CBS in Greensboro. In addition, Beeler has anchored and reported TV News for Charlotte area stations including CableNews2/WBTV, and WCCB-TV FOX 18. In 1999, readers of a local newspaper there named Beeler their "Favorite TV/Radio Personality" in an area "best of" poll. Beeler joined WXLV-TV ABC45 in 2000 as a TV News Weather Anchor and Reporter. After Sinclair Broadcasting cancelled station newscasts due to financial woes, Beeler became a freelance fill-in Weather Anchor for WXII-TV, the NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2002-05, Beeler appeared as TV Host in a popular aviation video on emergency pilot-controller communications, FAA Safety videos, and in the pilot for a new TV Series.

Currently, in 2008, Beeler's on camera broadcast work includes hosting/writing/producing half hour prime time TV Special Shows for CBS affiliate WFMY NEWS 2. Other work includes Co-Hosting a program featuring one of America's premiere aviation events, SUN 'n FUN, for Air & Space Television. She continues to appear as spokesperson in TV Commercials. On the print side of her journalism work, Beeler is a contributing writer for various publications including Natural Triad Magazine.

Beeler's knowledge of weather comes first hand from her flying experience. She is a licensed Commercial Pilot, Airline Transport Pilot, and FAA Flight Instructor. Beeler is also a world record-breaking pilot. In 2002, she was named FAA Aviation Safety Counselor of the Year for the Southern United States. Beeler is an active member of The Ninety-Nines, The International Organization of Women Pilots. A former chapter chairman, she currently serves as the Aerospace Education Chairman and News Reporter for the Kitty Hawk Chapter. Beeler represents Greensboro, North Carolina's Piedmont Triad International Airport as the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's (AOPA) Airport Support Network volunteer. AOPA is our nation's largest pilot organization. Additionally, she serves as a seminar instructor traveling the country for the Air Safety Foundation. Beeler is a former charter pilot and applicant in NASA's Journalist-in-Space Project. She has undergone regional jet airline pilot training. A champion of aviation, Beeler spreads the good word about flying through various reports and programs. She has appeared in national TV ads for the Be-a-Pilot campaign. She helps emcee air shows, and is an active volunteer with the FAA in organizing local pilot proficiency programs. Beeler enjoys educating our youth about the joys of flight. She is a public speaker who delights in revealing how a woman's place is in the cockpit.

As an award-winning journalist, Beeler has produced many national TV features on aviation. She had flown with General Chuck Yeager and the Voyager Crew. Beeler's many adventures in television include initially learning to fly for a TV assignment, competing in an all-women's transcontinental air race, skydiving with the Navy Seals, and flying mock air combat over Southern California. In addition, as an aviation journalist, Beeler recently piloted two crash survivors back to the Bahamian island that nearly claimed their lives two decades ago. Her account of this compelling story featuring a legendary drug lord appears in the April 2004 edition of AOPA PILOT magazine, the world's most widely read flying publication. A TV documentary is in the works.

Beeler has covered news stories from the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in the Virgin Islands to hundreds of interviews including celebrities Mel Gibson and Oprah. On September 11, 2001, after the attacks on America, Beeler appeared as an on-camera aviation consultant in newscasts on WXII-TV, the NBC-TV affiliate in Winston-Salem, NC. In addition to her aviation, TV journalism, and motherhood careers, Beeler is an actress and spokesperson who has appeared in hundreds of TV commercials spanning local to national coverage. She has traveled the world for her television work.

Beeler says she loves flight instructing and flying passengers because she considers it a privilege to share the joy of flight with others. When not flying the airways. Beeler can be seen on the airwaves as an occasional free lance TV News Weather Anchor and Spokeswoman in TV Commercials.