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A Lapsed Pilot’s Confession

Kreisha Ballantyne is one of the most recognisable aviation writers in Australia. With experience writing for several aviation titles, Kreisha has a broad base of experience, an ability to tap into important general aviation issues and a talent for expressing in simple terms what everyone is thinking. An active pilot, she lives and loves aviation.

Forgive me, Reader, for I have sinned. It has been more than eighteen months since my last flight.

I have a litany of excuses for this happening: we had fire, we had floods, we had a two-year global pandemic. Personally, I had a trip to Europe (with associated luggage disaster), started training as a relationship therapist, sold my house in Sydney, bought a house in Melbourne and am now living between two

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