Kwesi Manny: Ghanaian takes mum on his first flight after earning private pilot licence
- A UK-based Ghanaian man, Kwesi Manny, has earned his private pilot licence
- Manny deferred his childhood dream of becoming a licenced pilot due to the financial burden involved in taking lessons
- After years of postponing his passion, he has finally been certified as a qualified pilot
- Manny has taken his birth mum on his first flight as a late birthday surprise to her
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After years of deferring his childhood dream, UK-based Ghanaian, Kwesi Manny, has earned his private pilot licence to become a certified pilot.
Kwesi's childhood passion faced impediments due to the financial burden involved in taking lessons to become a qualified pilot.
This confined his dreams to flying simulator games until all changed in January 2020 when he and his wife finally made the big decision to put all their effort into helping him to pursue his childhood dream, he said.
Source: Instagram
Though his mother had always known that he wanted to fly, he managed to keep it a secret when he started taking his flying lessons, planning to surprise her with the feat.
''My mum has always been my biggest supporter, and she knew I always wanted to be a pilot. What she didn’t know was I'd been learning how to fly and kept it as a surprise for her,'' he posted.
After bagging his private pilot licence, Manny decided to take his mother on his first flight as a late birthday surprise to her.
''I couldn’t just tell her I'd earned my wings, I had to show her. And thankfully I caught her raw reactions on camera. Enjoy!'' he said.
The caption beginning the clip also read: ''I recently got my private pilot licence (PPL) and took my mum flying. I told her that I had booked a late flying experience as a late birthday present. Little did she know that I would be a pilot for the day.''
In the video sighted on his Instagram page, his mother expresses extreme concern about his ability to man the plane safely even after learning that he had obtained his pilot licence.
Manny also had a supervisor aboard the flight to ensure a safe journey, but his mother remained jittery, insisting that he returned to the airdrome because she was scared.
Watch the video below.
In other news, Oheneyere Mercy Asiedu has recounted her grass to success story amid her struggle growing up with her father and stepmother, and her subsequent hapless relationship with the father of her first child.
Mercy Asiedu, aged 50, revealed that she had turbulent teenage years after her birth mother divorced her father.
Narrating the difficulty she faced whilst growing up, she disclosed that her father refused to enrol her into a senior high school after she completed Form 4.
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