Canada-based Mohd Faizy flew his first solo at the age of 14 years in a fixed wing Cessna 152, creating a world record. The Hitavada received the news about Mohd Faizy’s record, through his uncle Quaid Faizy, a city-based commercial pilot, presently Captain on SpiceJet Airline.
It was fun talking to Capt Quaid, who, himself a Pilot with vast flying experience and appeared quite excited in sharing the news with The Hitavada. This scribe being a student Pilot licence holder in his college days, also could not contain the excitement and could virtually visualise the thrill of taking the first solo, soaring in the blue sky, controls in hand, no instructor to bark at.
Capt Quaid Faizy spoke at length about how his nephew went about doing that record breaking feat. “Mohd Faizy is a fourteen-year-old boy from Mississauga, who created a world record of flying solo in the Cessna 152 on December 18, 2018. Mohd Faizy broke his own cousin’s record Mansoor Anis, who did this in 14 years, 3 months. Interestingly both are cousins and belong to Nagpur. I like to tinker with computers, that is how I made and developed my own flight simulator at home, equipped with best of basic avionics, on which Faizy played about, like how children today play computer games. That is how, he got the hang of it. Added to this was his sister Zahabia’s taking him on board for a joyride several times, that Faizy got hooked on to, like a duck taking to water. Mohd Faizy took his first solo flight in Vancouver with a flight instructor when he was twelve-year-old.
Guinness Book of World Record has accepted his claim to becoming the youngest Pilot to fly solo. Mohd Faizy’s father is Hassan Faizy from Ujjain and mother is a Physiotherapist”.
31/12/18 Nandu Andhare/Hitavada
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It was fun talking to Capt Quaid, who, himself a Pilot with vast flying experience and appeared quite excited in sharing the news with The Hitavada. This scribe being a student Pilot licence holder in his college days, also could not contain the excitement and could virtually visualise the thrill of taking the first solo, soaring in the blue sky, controls in hand, no instructor to bark at.
Capt Quaid Faizy spoke at length about how his nephew went about doing that record breaking feat. “Mohd Faizy is a fourteen-year-old boy from Mississauga, who created a world record of flying solo in the Cessna 152 on December 18, 2018. Mohd Faizy broke his own cousin’s record Mansoor Anis, who did this in 14 years, 3 months. Interestingly both are cousins and belong to Nagpur. I like to tinker with computers, that is how I made and developed my own flight simulator at home, equipped with best of basic avionics, on which Faizy played about, like how children today play computer games. That is how, he got the hang of it. Added to this was his sister Zahabia’s taking him on board for a joyride several times, that Faizy got hooked on to, like a duck taking to water. Mohd Faizy took his first solo flight in Vancouver with a flight instructor when he was twelve-year-old.
Guinness Book of World Record has accepted his claim to becoming the youngest Pilot to fly solo. Mohd Faizy’s father is Hassan Faizy from Ujjain and mother is a Physiotherapist”.
31/12/18 Nandu Andhare/Hitavada
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