A Saudi medical student swapped her white coat for a pilot?s uniform and she landed safely at an airport in Florida in the US after getting her license there. Rotana Osama Faqih, a 22-year-old Saudi woman who got her license in only three months, said she learned quickly because she was born to be a pilot. Her father, Osama Faqih, is a veteran captain for Saudi Arabian Airlines. Rotana said she grew up with her father flying all over the world and bringing back lots of gifts from his destinations. The souvenirs from distant lands made her dream of flying a plane, like her father, who is proud of being among the first Saudi pilots. From the time Faqih started studying medicine in the USA, she remembered her dream of following her father's footsteps. While she hoped to take to the skies, she stayed focused on her medical studies and spends most of her summer vacations in surgery wards rooms and emergency departments to learn more about the profession she likes the most. Faqih's chance to fly came this year when her father sent her brother, who studies engineering at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah and shares her passion for flying, to America to study aviation. When the summer holiday started, she asked her father to visit her brother. When she arrived at her brother's academy, she was surprised to learn her father had arranged for her to join a flight-training course. Faqih said she worked hard day and night, which helped her get her license in three months and take to the sky. She said she flew from one town to another and used her training and skill to use fly safely and follow all flight directives.
