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[Adrianne Fleming] certainly fits into the passion category: "I used to watch the police planes that used to fly low over Melbourne and I spent hours sitting in the backyard watching them, and that's what I wanted to fly." "I was a mathematics and physics student at school. All t...

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Published inWeekend Australian
Main Author Norris, Paul
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canberra, A.C.T News Limited 12.03.2005
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Fleming, Adrianne
McBride, Sue
Riley, Mark
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Summary:[Adrianne Fleming] certainly fits into the passion category: "I used to watch the police planes that used to fly low over Melbourne and I spent hours sitting in the backyard watching them, and that's what I wanted to fly." "I was a mathematics and physics student at school. All the career books said if you want to be a pilot maths and physics is what you have to do." After completing an associate diploma in fire technology, Fleming began an eight- week training course as a flight data officer. She finally saved enough money to begin her first flying lesson, in a fixed-wing plane. "You can only fly set routes across London in a helicopter and you basically fly up the Thames River and that's just amazing. And then coming into Paris it's pretty much the same, you fly up the Seine River and there's a heliport just down from the Eiffel Tower," she recalls.