Audrey's first airplane ride was at the age of six and she vowed then, that she'd learn to fly someday. With her two kids in the back seat of the airplane and her flight instructor (also know has her husband, Ray) in the front seat, she began her flight instruction. She soled in June 1956 and obtained her Private Pilot Certificate on December 6, 1956. Her Commercial Pilot Certificate followed in October of 1957, along with her Flight Instructor Certificate in 1961.

From 1969 to 1976, Audrey owned and operated Viking Aero Service at the famed Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley, where she was the Chief Flight Instructor, Director of Operations, as well as an FAA Designated Pilot Examiner.

She flew her first Powder Puff Derby (All Woman's Transcontinental Air Race) in 1958; she then flew seven more as a contestant and the last one in 1976 as a member of the AWTAR Board.

In 1979, she became an Air Safety Investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, CA. In 1987 she transferred to the FAA at Van Nuys, CA as an Operations Inspector.

After retirement from the government in 1991, she and her family moved to Redding, CA where she was Director of Operations at Hillside Aviation at Benton Airpark.

Currently she is still instructing at Hillside Aviation and is active in the Experimental Aircraft Association, as well as, the Mount Shasta Chapter of the Ninety-Nines.