Woman From Italy Has Collected 200 Hours of Flight – She Is Blind
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Sabrina Lucia Papa has not been able to see since she was born. Nevertheless, she regularly sits in the cockpit and has already collected 200 flight hours.
As a child I wanted to be the plane and not the pilot, because the plane flew higher and faster than the birds. Lucia Sabrina Papa, 56 years old, is the first pupil blind pilot in Italy. Blind from birth, she cultivated the passion for flight since childhood, when she listened to the planes flying over her house, near the military airport of Galatina, in Puglia. Thanks to the associations Baroni Rotti and WeFly Team, Sabrina approached the world…
Fifty-six years old, blind from birth due to retinal dystrophy and with 200 hours of flight behind the back aboard ultralight aircraft. Lucia Sabrina Papa is the first unseen pilot student in Italy. She manages the controls, controls the layout and performs the maneuvers, including landing, guided exclusively by the tactile and vocal indications of the [...] The article "Sometimes I land alone, is very difficult. The most dangerous moment is tak…
The Italian is blind due to retinal dystrophy, but she has dreamed of flying since she was a child. She lived near the Fortunato Cesari military airport in Galatina (Lecce), where she heard the noise of airplanes every day.— When I heard planes, I ran to the garden. I was attracted by this powerful roar that almost wanted to lift me into the air,” said Papa, quoted by the ANSA agency.The woman tied her professional life to the IT industry, but i…
Lucia Sabrina Papa (56) has had a dream since childhood: the Italian always wanted to become a pilot.
56-year-old congenitally blind Sabrina learned to fly several types of aircraft and flew more than 200 hours.
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