Aiming High

Kaya, Year 11, has always had an interest in planes and flying and has been receiving flying lessons since she was in Year 7. She takes lessons every month in Sherburn in Elmet and has been clocking up hours accompanied by her instructor in her flight log, flying a Piper PA28 since she turned 14.

There is a lot to learn when flying a plane and alongside studying for her GCSEs, Kaya has been recently learning Air Law so that she could take the exam in time to make her first solo flight on her 16^th birthday this April. Kaya sat this exam earlier in the month and got 100% – an outstanding achievement, of which she is really proud.

Kaya hopes to sit the remaining 8 exams alongside her Year 12 studies next year and is aiming to get her pilot’s licence when she is 17. She intends to continue in the sixth form and study Physics, Maths and Chemistry with the longer-term goal of becoming a commercial pilot.