Jessica Cox, 25, wanita yang lahir tanpa tangan, berdiri di dalam
pesawat. Wanita ini dari Tucson, Arizona menerima Sport Pilot
certificate dan menjadi pilot utama licensed untuk menerbang dengan
menggunakan kakinya saja.
Jessica Cox dari Tucson lahir tanpa tangan, tetapi itu hanya
menghentikan beliau dari melakukan suatu hal: menyebut "tidak bisa"."
Her latest flight into the seemingly impossible is becoming the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.
With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet.
With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet.
"She's a good pilot. She's rock solid," said Parrish Traweek, 42, the
flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. Parrish Traweek
runs PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many
pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's abilities.
"When she came up here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem flying a plane."
Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she figured out
early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic devices.
Sumber: "Jessica Cox Armless Pilot"
