As she sits comfortably in the cockpit of a small Cirrus SR20 airplane, 38-year-old Ricki Foster goes over her pre-flight checklist.
“Weight and balance under limits. Emergency equipment’s on board,” she says into her headset. “Pre-flight checklist complete.”
With flight instructor Aiden Zabiegalski next to her, Foster fires up the single engine of this four-seat propeller-driven plane.
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