Jessica Cox - Armless Girl Gets A Pilot License

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Jessica Cox, armless girl gets a pilot license. She is very amazing girl. She was born without arms but she can be a pilot and fly around the world with her feet. She is a daughter of William Cox (music teacher retirement) and Inez Cox (a nurse). They treat Jessica the same like other children, so she never feel inferior. Her mother taught her to use her feet to do anything, so since she was a child she could do her need herself.



She become active girl, in three years old, Jessica Cox took gymnastics class, then three years later she took dancing and swimming class. In age ten, she took taekwondo class and achieved two black belts. Her big dream is become a pilot. Firstly, she felt afraid, but after a trial she became challenged to learn to fly with a plane. The plane she is flying is called an Ercoupe and it is one of the few airplanes to be made and certified without pedals. Without rudder pedals Jessica is free to use her feet as hands.
There are three instructors who trained her; they said no doubt that Jessica can fly a plane as good as real pilot. In 2008, Jessica Cox got the fly license from Able Flight, a flight training company in North Carolina that helps people with disabilities to learn to fly a plane. It is proof of certification for Jessica Cox for her ability to fly a light sport aircraft to a height of 10 thousand feet.