{"id":431,"date":"2019-05-15T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/?p=431"},"modified":"2019-05-15T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:02:15","slug":"aarohi-pandit-became-the-worlds-first-woman-to-cross-atlantic-solo-in-small-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/aarohi-pandit-became-the-worlds-first-woman-to-cross-atlantic-solo-in-small-aircraft.html","title":{"rendered":"Aarohi Pandit became the world\u2019s first woman to cross Atlantic solo in small aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mumbai, May 15. <\/strong>Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai, became the world\u2019s first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA), thrilling her family, friends and aviation circles here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She landed her tiny aircraft at Iqaluit Airport in Canada, after a gruelling 3,000-km flight, under adverse and extreme weather conditions following take-off from Wick, Scotland (United Kingdom), with brief stopovers in Greenland and Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of her ongoing year-long global circumnavigation flight which was launched with her friend Keithair Misquitta on July 30. Aarohi continued solo from the UK to Canada and they will return to India by July 30,\u201d said an excited Lynn de Souza, head of Social Access, a not-for-profit communications firm which sponsored the expedition.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/aarohi-pandit-became-the-worlds-first-woman-to-cross-atlantic-solo-in-small-aircraft.html\/arohi-pandit\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?fit=660%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Arohi Pandit\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?fit=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?fit=640%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?resize=640%2C484&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEn route, she set another record as the first woman pilot to fly solo above the treacherous Greenland ice-cap in an LSA,\u201d Lynn said.<\/p>\n<p>A commercial pilot and LSA licence holder, Aarohi and Keithair Misquitta left India on the Women Empower (WE) Expedition in the tiny aircraft christened \u2018Mahi\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>They flew over Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, then to Pakistan \u2014 the first civilian LSA flight to land in the neighbouring country since 1947. Aarohi underwent an arduous seven-month preparatory training. \u2014 IANS<\/p>\n<p><strong>About \u2018Mahi\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mahi is a Slovenian-built Pipistrel Sinus. With 80 horsepower on tap, it is just about as powerful as a Maruti Baleno and cruises at 215 kmph.<\/li>\n<li>It can\u2019t fly longer than four hours at a stretch so there will be plenty of landings and halts<\/li>\n<li>Is equipped with multi-function displays in two-person cockpit and also has a ballistic\u00a0parachute rescue system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai, May 15. Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai, became the world\u2019s first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA), thrilling her family, friends and aviation circles here on Tuesday. She landed her tiny aircraft at Iqaluit Airport in Canada, after a gruelling 3,000-km flight, under adverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-sports","category-top-stories-of-madhesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arohi-Pandit.jpeg?fit=660%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS11m-6X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}