Saturday, September 11, 2010

Mama, who is sitting inside the cockpit?

"Jet engines sound..." from 30,000ft, I can clearly know that is a B747 passing overhead my house.

Remembering many years ago, little girl asked:"Mama, who is sitting inside the cockpit? are they trained in the army?"

"No, they are pilots. They are trained in the flying school like anybody else sweetheart, and there are girl pilots as well." she replied.

This curious little girl starts her fantasies, "what's the feeling of flying an aircraft? is it scary?", "Wow! the pilots get to go around the world, how cool is that!"

Love travelling after since she went overseas for the first time, little girl began searching the information about pilots and flying schools. She fell in love with aircrafts eventually, and set 'become an airline pilot' as her goal. After going through few difficult thoughts and decisions, she finally went into a flying school located in an lovely island.

She remembers the first time she sat in the small training aircraft, back-sitting her batch mate and a French instructor flying around the island. The feeling was ....hardly described. A mix feeling of nervous, anxious, joys and dream come true! The good thing about small aircraft is the pilot can actually see more fascinating scenery from top, and more flexible on the controls.

Time flies fast, like it really speeds up when you think about the past. 18 months of training in an island, the little girl has grown up and got her wings! This is an incredible experience which she can actually fly an aircraft, though it's just the very first step to become a commercial pilot.

And today, she is working hard to have the dream come true which she set when she was a little girl. =D
Good Luck!

1 comment:

Joyce said...

Good Luck to U !!!