[BITList] The First Pilot licensed to Fly using Only her Feet.

Sun Jul 26 14:29:09 BST 2009

Thought you all might like to see this!

I don't think there is anything this woman can't do;  absolutely  
amazing.

Oxford and Cambridge have now decided to remove the words CAN'T and  
IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. ..

Jessica Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside an aircraft.  
The girl from Tucson, Arizona got the Sport Pilot certificate lately  
and became the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.

Jessica Cox of Tucson was born without arms, but that has only stopped  
her from doing one thing: using the word “can't."

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.

"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.

Jessica Cox, 25, earned a license to fly airplanes on October 10,  
2008. Jessica also has two black belts in Tae Kwan-Do, a college  
degree in Psychology, and a thriving career as a motivational speaker.  
What doesn't Jessica Cox have? Arms. A bilateral congenital limb  
deficiency doesn't stop Ms. Cox from achieving and surpassing her  
goals. From birth on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car,  
type 25 words per minute, and fly an airplane using her feet, without  
any special adaptations. She is the first woman without arms to earn a  
license to fly.

"I highly encourage people with disabilities to consider flying," Cox  
said. "It helps reverse the stereotype that people with disabilities  
are powerless into the belief that they are powerful and capable of  
setting high goals and achieving them."

  Jessica earned her Sport Pilot certificate after training with Able  
Flight, a North Carolina flight training company that specializes in  
helping people with disabilities learn to fly. Ms. Cox won an Able  
Flight scholarship and was able to train with instructor Parrish  
Traweek free of charge..

vite them now.

ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.

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