Published Date:
27 October 2006
As a small child, Emily Lane's ambition was to fly and now she has achieved her paragliding club pilot licence two days after reaching her 16th birthday, the minimum age.
The licence permits her to paraglide solo, without any instructors in radio contact.
The teenager from Gospel Green had her first paraglide from the Devil's Dyke when she was 13 and was hooked immediately.
She took every opportunity after that and, she says, emptied her bank account buying herself a paragliding canopy.
She passed the elementary pilot level, which involves a written exam including questions about winds, thermals and the law of the air.
Report in October 26 issue of the Observer
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Last Updated:
25 October 2006 6:24 PM
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Source:
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Location:
Chichester
