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With a 35mph wind across the runway, I was set the challenge by Captain Nick Heard, pilot trainer at Skyborne Academy, to land - something only the most experienced pilots are cleared to do.

CEO of Skyborne Academy, Lee Woodward told me: "From the start of flying training being exposed to low crosswinds, it's going to be around six years before becoming a full captain exposed to the full crosswind limits of a modern-day airliner".

The carrier said the academy, operated in partnership with training provider Skyborne Airline, would start training its first batch of students in June.

The Delta Propel Pilot Academy will be based in a 12,000-square-foot facility situated within Skyborne's Florida campus, the statement said.

"It takes just one sick child and the whole community is in danger," adds the 57-year-old head of the maternity unit at Skyborne Hospital.