Kim Jaeger is a through-knee amputee, has so far pursued her ambition to learn to fly (that part of the dream is well under way) and to gain her Private Pilot’s Licence with dogged determination. She was the first to receive a Lady Bader Grant – from The Douglas Bader Foundation; special grants set up…
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During my most recent flying lesson (mid-April 2017), for various reasons which I’ll explain below, my pre-flight briefing took place outside. Normally I have my pre-flights in the briefing room with my instructor. On that particular day, Elstree Airport’s (EGTR) air traffic control gave us rare permission to drive to the plane. So, Ivan drove…
Read More#YouHaveControl | 2:30 am on the 28th of October. As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one getting up at that time of the night, or as I like to call it, stupid o’clock. You see, it was the night of the blood moon, when the moon was really close to earth; something to…
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