essential The very young woman, aged 19, continues her studies to become a line pilot. His dream, to meet in the leds of a long-haul, and to travel the world. She has just taken a first step in this flight plan.
Small, she just saw herself hostess of the air. She loved their uniforms. Then, a little later, she was amazed at a long-haul where there was an inner staircase: “I said to myself: it is incredible to be able to fly these funny machines. I think that my desire to become a pilot was born from this meeting,” she smiles. The meeting, not with a person, but with a plane …
Since then, Laura has deployed her wings. With the support of her parents, who accompany her progress, the very young woman has just obtained her private pilot license, a European certificate awarded after 45 hours of flight, and which allows her not only to fly alone, but also to embark passengers. “My very first flight, I did it with my twin sister, Sofia, it was magic,” smiles Laura. The two sisters share the same passion for rugby, they were both referees. But as much Laura has her look riveted towards the sky, as much Sofia keeps her feet anchored in the ground, or rather the legs: “she is passionate about horses”, smiles Laura.
From now on, the very young woman continues her dream in Perpignan, within the Aéropyrénée Aviation School, founded in 1970, and which forms line pilots. Laura is aware of it: the stopovers will be many before they can touch her dream finger: take the controllers of a long-haul, to travel the world in the colors of a renowned airline, “like Air France”, she adds. The competition is tough, and the places few. But Laura is not in a hurry: “At the start, I wanted to become a line pilot, directly. Today, I can see myself doing steps, being a private pilot for a few years, for example,” she said. In the meantime, she confronts the various tests of her training course. She has already passed, and succeeded, almost half of the training modules, alternating practice and theory. From aerial law to meteorology, including the cogs of navigation and operational procedure, it is a complete training which occupies his daily life, sanctioned by examinations organized by the Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC). But Laura, like the other students of her promotion, is waiting for only one thing: sitting at the controls of one of the school planes, Piper or Cesna: “This is what puts stars in my eyes,” she concludes.
