whitepen was born in Italy, along a lake shoreline in the foothills of the Alps, in 1964. zodiac: gemini - email: cygnuss@libero.it forgive please the autodidactic English translation

Freelance. She practises journalism and contributes freelance to some local or national rewiews and newspapers writing about tourism, culture and actuality. She publicized three poems booktels: Voli notturni (night flying), Le ali ferite (the wounded wings) and Il canto del cigno (the swan's chant) plus a biography, with Dialogo editor.

Pilot. She obtains, in june 1983, the italian 1° degree pilot’s licence (student permit) in floatplanes at the lakeside Como aero club. Durind this time here she builds up 60 hours "solo" and "dual".

In 1989/1990 she transfers to Canada, Montreal, and achieves both Canadian Private and Commercial pilot’s licences ( ppl - cpl ) with associated vfr- night and multi-engine ratings. During the stay here she logs more than 180 hours flying and learns aviation in compliance with the International and European school (a.i.p.).

Two years later in Florida, USA, she flies instrument training on both single and multi-engine aircrafts and gains the U.S. Instrument Rating ( ifr ) according to the FAR rules.

In 1995 in Italy she obtains good marks (8 e 8,4 grades during the tests) at the Domestic Competition for a "84 vacancies as expert of flight assistance" (law 20/12/90 n.219, exam 1994/1995). She results nr. 205 in the final qualification list.

She has accumulated over 300 hours total flying time on single and multi engine propeller aircrafts: 100 hours of night and day cross country flying and 40 hours instrument.

She has been endorsed on these type of aircrafts :

cessna 150-fk idro 150 hp, single engined - on floats
piper pa-18 supercub 150 hp, single engined - on floats
cessna 152 aerobat 110 hp, single engined - fixed gear
cessna 172 skyhawk160 hp, single engined - fixed gear
piper pa-28-140 cherokee 150 hp, single engined - fixed gear
piper pa-28-161 warrior 160 hp, single engined - fixed gear
piper pa-28-200 arrow 200 hp, single engined - retractible
piper pa-23-161 geronimo 320 hp, multi engined - retractible
piper pa-25-250 aztec f 500 hp, multi engined - retractible
grumman ga-7 cougar 320 hp, multi engined - retractible

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