You can steal my wheelchair, but not my dream!

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…

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‘To Reach for the Sky’ with The Douglas Bader Foundation [2015]

#YouHaveControl | Team FITA, & Team Bader, fly from Elstree EGTR to White Waltham EGLM. Freedom in the Air (FITA) is delighted to announce that our founder, Gautam Lewis, has accepted an invitation from The Douglas Bader Foundation (DBF) to become one of the Charities Ambassadors. Student pilots at FITA try and emulate the unbreakable…

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