The woman who is born without arms and is a pilot | Chronic

Jessica Cox He is 36 years old and was born in Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA. After her mother had a normal pregnancy, the baby girl was born with no arms.

"My mother was devastated, but they really helped me to go out and try, solve problems and want to be independent."said the young woman who gives motivational lectures based on her ability to fly planes, dive and practice taekwondo. He learned everything from his feet.

In a dialogue with CNN, Jessica said that she was placing her right foot on the yoke and her left foot on the accelerator and just before she was ready to take off. "I replace what the other drivers would do with their hands and replace it with my feet"he explained.

Surprisingly, Jessica said she was afraid of planes and the feeling of flying when she was a kid. "Whenever I went on commercial flights when I was a child, I prayed God to take care of me"he counted. However, inside a small plane, his perception has changed and something inside his body has mobilized: "The pilot took me to the front of the plane. The plane has a double command … he took his hands off the control and let me fly"

The young driver graduated in 2015 with a degree in psychology and communication from the University of Arizona. After graduating, he began to practice to become a pilot. What was difficult, it was to find a way to adapt to the management of the plane. "I have had many flight instructors and collaborators in my training to solve this problem. Therefore, it was a three-year process to discover, by trial and error, what would work, " he explained.

On the other hand, I also needed a plane that suited him. Until finally they found the Ercoupe: "I took this picture of a plane and put it on the back of my computer, I only remember seeing it, it's the plane for which I was Was finally certified airplane, although for the moment it was not a reality, made reality a reality ".

In 2008, Jessica was successfully certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly a light sports aircraft, Ercoupe. "There were a lot of questions, there was a lot of concern, there was a lot of doubt as to whether it was possible", he said.

When asked why she was not wearing a prosthetic, she replied that she had never managed to adapt: "From the beginning I felt uncomfortable, I thought my feet were better".

In this way, he managed to do everything with his feet. In addition, she is also certified as a third level black belt diver and has traveled to more than 20 countries as a motivational speaker.

"I often wonder if I could go back, change my life and be born with my arms In the first place, my life would be completely different, and one of the things that is so powerful is that I live my life as I do, it has a huge impact on others, I've had role models and leaders, and as I did, it's now my responsibility to be the same to the next generation ".