In doing so, she became one of only a handful of Tongan people ever to get a pilot’s license – and the first Tongan woman.
Chipping away year by year, course by course, McLeod slowly worked her way toward becoming a pilot.
McLeod got her pilot’s license in 1992.
“Delivering that (pilot address) in Tongan, flying in Tonga, I felt like my mission was accomplished,” she says.
The other Tongan pilots she knows of were also trained abroad.
Persons:
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Organizations:
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Locations:
Tongan, Vava’u, Australia, Tonga, Victoria, Nuku’alofa, Auckland , New Zealand, Melbourne