Woman defies nay-sayer boyfriend to become pilot

A woman has became a pilot to defy her ex-boyfriend after he told her she could never be able to become one.

Legal advisor, Cristiana, decided to get her private pilot licence six years ago when her now ex-boyfriend, who was a commercial pilot at the time told her she would never be able to win her wings.

“That’s when I decided to become a pilot. I had never thought about it before. I decided to become a private pilot, to fly for fun, not to make a business out of it,” Christina said.

The 43-year-old, from Verona, Italy, is also known as blonde mouse on Instagram and enjoys sharing photos from her stylish travels and up in the air.

Since learning to fly, Cristiana has flown to 13 different countries and has flown around California, Nevada and Texas whilst visiting the USA.

She says that flying is the best feeling in the world and the benefits of flying a private plane means she can skip checks at the airport and jet to different countries whenever she likes.

“Being a pilot is very useful and flying yourself gives you a lot of freedom,” she said.

“It’s the best feeling ever because everything is so much better from up there: the world is prettier, weather normally is better. Almost everything looks nice from a plane, even ugly places.

“Flying is interesting, challenging. You need to concentrate, to make decisions. You can never relax during a flight, you have to be attentive, precise, to keep on checking and to be ready for whatever happens. So once you are able to do things properly, it is very satisfactory.”

As well as flying, Cristiana is a keen windsurfer and lives a vegan lifestyle and compassion for animals, which is also shares with her social media followers.

Cristiana ignores the occasional discrimination she receives from others in the aviation world due to her gender. She decided to share her glamorous lifestyle online after a friend suggested it and has been inundated with people asking her how to become a pilot since.

“I’m just a vegan girl who has fun flying. Fortunately, I have never had problems in my legal career because I am a woman. There is a certain amount of discrimination against women in aviation, but I just ignore it,” she said.

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