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Old 13th Jul 2014, 22:20
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So basically, not the youngest, not the first, not in an SEP, not solo - although a glance on her website shows that it's at least trying to raise some money for a halfway worthy cause (although nowhere could I find anything saying how much money had been raised, and it is easily confused with the old and very respectable "Amelia Earhart foundation").

That she's a reasonably recently qualified PPR/IR (PPL for 4 years and it took her 6 years to obtain it, IR for 1 year), with most of her flying time as a helicopter camera operator, and that her "co-pilot" in an instructor with 6,400hrs TT of which 4,500hrs on type, should not be read as implying that she isn't doing the whole thing herself.

Apart from that, jolly well done her!


Why is it that the only aviation reporting in the Telegraph that's ever accurate is that in the obituaries section?

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