{"id":32076,"date":"2023-06-28T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=32076"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:25:13","slug":"sakshi-kochhar-youngest-commercial-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/sakshi-kochhar-youngest-commercial-pilot\/","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<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n The 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<\/sup> birthday and her feat of earning a commercial pilot license. Interestingly, she broke the record of Maitri Patel<\/a><\/span> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n