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Now, Corey will head to the airport to 14-year-old Corey Anderson, who did both this month, the answer is entering log one hour of flight time each month -- the first 15 minutes being spent with Grade 9. The same week that young Anderson an instructor on board. He'll continue to practice and accu checked into Grade 9 at OakvilleTrafalgar High School, he also climbed mulate time in the air until he's 16, when into a Cessna 152 and .............................................. he'll be able to try for his recreational licence and earned the right to fly " I thought it would be a then his private pilot's solo. "Starting Grade 9 was bit scary, but when I got licence at age 17. more difficult. When I up there it was great, Then, Corey plans to supplement his university did my solo I wasn't real you have a lot of tuition with money ly nervous because I freedom.. " earned as a flight instruc knew I could do it," said -- 14-year-old tor. Corey. student pilot It means he can now At summer camp, Corey Anderson Corey learned about the log time flying so he can try for his recreational .................... .................... theory of flight at ground pilot's licence when he's 16; his private school, then took some hands-on ground pilot's licence when he's 17; and, his instruction about a specific activity, like commercial pilot's licence when he's 18 what to do if your plane stalls, then logged one hour of flight time daily. and an airline pilot's licence at age 21. "It's quite unusual for someone Each comes with a prescribed num ber of flying hours, a Ministry of Corey's age to solo because a lot of stu Transport exam, a Physical exam and dents that age don't get interested in fly ing," said summer camp co-ordinator experience. Corey's first hurdle was cleared Marilyn Dickson. "It is legal for them to fly. They can't thanks to time he spent at Guelph Airport's Aviation International Summer drive themselves to the airport for a cou Flight Camp in early July -- and a hand ple of years, but they can fly," said Dickson. ful of follow-up flying lessons. Corey was an eager pupil who spent "I thought he'd learn little things about airplanes at the summer camp, but much of his free time studying for the apparently they went right up the first 200-question test he had to pass to earn day in an airplane," said his mother, Jane the right to fly solo. He was one of only three of the 11 Anderson. Corey's mother and his father, Hugh students in his summer camp to fly solo, Anderson, were on-hand to watch their said Dickson. "You have to be bom with it," said son on his first solo flight. "My heart was pounding. I was trying Corey, who said he spent a lot of time to videotape it, but I kept thinking he's learning to fly on computer flight simu only 14, he's so young, what if he panics, lators. but he didn't," said Anderson. "I've been interested in flying ever Though Anderson wasn't fully aware since my first major trip to Egypt. I was of what young Corey was up to at his six years old and they took me through summer flight camp, he wrapped up the the plane and to the cockpit. I was fasci program having logged 10 hours in flight nated," said Corey. time and ready to solo in just a few more While flight simulators can produce lessons. real weather conditions, Corey said "We gave him the lessons," said his nothing compares with the real thing. mom. Lessons cost $ 100 per hour on top "It was much better than I'd expected of the approximate $1,600 cost of the and although you have to constantly camp. check your instruments, everything Then came time for the big day. gradually gets easier," he said. Flight instructor Sonny Feddle had pro "The hardest part is landing the nounced Anderson ready to solo, but plane," he said, adding, "I thought it something always got in the way of the would be a bit scary, but when I got up flight. there it was great, you have a lot of free "The weather never co-operated. It dom." 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