{"id":2798,"date":"2023-06-30T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2023-07-02T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:53:51","slug":"sakshi-kochhar-becomes-indias-youngest-civil-pilot-at-18-and-breaks-all-records-of-maitri-patel-ayesha-aziz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2023\/06\/sakshi-kochhar-becomes-indias-youngest-civil-pilot-at-18-and-breaks-all-records-of-maitri-patel-ayesha-aziz.html","title":{"rendered":"Sakshi Kochhar Becomes India\u2019s Youngest Civil Pilot at 18 and Breaks All Records of Maitri Patel, Ayesha Aziz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parents should save money for their daughters\u2019 higher education rather than for their wedding. This reformative thought is gaining momentum in Indian society where fathers start dreaming of daughters\u2019 grand wedding and saving for the big day right from the cradling of baby girls. Some parents are exceptions, like Kalpana Chawla\u2019s father. He had taken his daughter to a flying club and requested a pilot to give her a ride. This marked the beginning of her epic journey to having become a legendary astronaut in 1995 when there was no \u201cBeti Bachao, Beti Padhao\u201d campaign by the government of India.
\n\"Sakshi<\/a>
\nThe parents of India\u2019s youngest commercial pilot, Sakshi Kochhar, invested in their daughter\u2019s dream of flying high to the height of 35,000 feet. On 30 May 2023, she celebrated her 18th birthday and her feat of earning a commercial pilot license. Interestingly, she broke the record of Maitri Patel from Gujarat. Maitri, when 19, became the youngest civil pilot in 2022 and broke the record of Ayesha Aziz from Kashmir. Ayesha Aziz took to skies with her pilot license at the age of 21.
\nSakshi, who is now the youngest civil pilot of the world\u2019s second populous nation, made headlines once again on Father\u2019s Day 2023 as she made a wish to give back Rs 70 lakh that her parents spent on her training in India and America. It is nearly impossible for middle-class Indian families to afford lakhs of rupees for fulfilling their children\u2019s career dreams. However, Sakshi\u2019s parents poured out their savings for her training in civil aviation. Indeed, it is financially and psychologically draining for the middle-income group. Sakshi feels indebted to not only her parents, but also grandparents.
\nMulti-talented Sakshi is from a small town in Himachal Pradesh, where the richest Indian American billionaire \u2013 cyber tycoon Jay Chaudhry with a net worth of $12bn \u2013 had studied under a tree in his childhood. Himachal Pradesh is not only a place of scenic beauty that begets poetry, but also a place of lofty mountains that make one dream big.
\nUnlike Maitri Patel, Sakshi Kochhar was not fixated on the idea of flying aircraft in her childhood. She had a penchant for dancing. She was a state-level runner-up in dance before she aspired to make it big in civil aviation. That\u2019s why she took up Mathematics and Physics in her 12th grade at the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh. After having passed the 12th grade, she joined the Skyline Aviation Club in Mumbai; her maiden step into the world of aviation for basic training.
\nAfter 4 months of ground training in Mumbai, she traveled to the USA for advanced training in commercial aviation. She got trained in the dynamics of piloting a passenger aircraft there, completed the program only in 7 and half months, earned a commercial pilot license (CPL), and became India\u2019s youngest commercial pilot. Hope an employment opportunity with IndiGo or Air India that is on a hiring spree for pilots will soon give her thrust to take off.
\n30\/06\/2023 Indian Eagle\/Travel Beats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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