Lydia finally got her first lesson in the CH701 - the key aircraft to be used for the bag-drop campaigns, starting soon. Lydia can reach all the controls in the 701 - but she needs to increase the control level of her (disabled) right arm. Being used to using her right arm for throttle work in the X-Air, the changes are many, but she is doing well. The best part for me is the range of 'noises' that come over the intercom as she self recognises the over-control she makes - never a scared noise, always an excited noise. Ben asked me if she ever gets scared in the plane, and I responded 'she has never been in a plane with somebody who is scared, so the concept of being scared in the plane simply does not exist.' Then I realised how much of a gift we are giving to Lydia, and the other girls we are training, through flight, and how much of a gift it is going to be to so many communities once THEY are flying the missions..
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Miss Lydia and the 701...
Lydia finally got her first lesson in the CH701 - the key aircraft to be used for the bag-drop campaigns, starting soon. Lydia can reach all the controls in the 701 - but she needs to increase the control level of her (disabled) right arm. Being used to using her right arm for throttle work in the X-Air, the changes are many, but she is doing well. The best part for me is the range of 'noises' that come over the intercom as she self recognises the over-control she makes - never a scared noise, always an excited noise. Ben asked me if she ever gets scared in the plane, and I responded 'she has never been in a plane with somebody who is scared, so the concept of being scared in the plane simply does not exist.' Then I realised how much of a gift we are giving to Lydia, and the other girls we are training, through flight, and how much of a gift it is going to be to so many communities once THEY are flying the missions..
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