“Ladies and gentlemen, this is Commander Landry on board your A350. » He hasn’t said this sentence yet, but it might be soon. At just 18 years old, Guarik Landry, a young Guadeloupean, became the youngest pilot in Europe to obtain his commercial license, after training which he completed at the Aérofutur school in Perpignan. In one year instead of two, as always with this young man for whom everything happens very quickly.
Flying planes is his childhood dream. “I grew up next to an airport in Guadeloupe,” he explains to Roussillon Week. From my room, I saw the planes take off and land. In kindergarten, I drew planes! » His father even takes him to see the planes at Pointe-à-Pitre airport, after school.
As a teenager, he spends hours Flight Simulator, a very detailed and detailed simulation video game, putting the player in the shoes of a pilot. He also joined the Raizet flying club – Les wings guadeloupeens – and obtained his private pilot’s license at the same time as his baccalaureate, at 17 years old.
“It’s largely thanks to my parents, since I didn’t come from a wealthy family. My parents have known from a very young age that I wanted to be a pilot, so every penny they had, they put aside for me,” he admits. from RCI radio. His family thus raises the €100,000 necessary for registration at the Aérofutur school, noted West France, after confirmation that the young pilot can skip the two years of preparatory class at the national civil aviation school. Jazz piano enthusiast, Guarik Landry now hopes to fly to Guadeloupe and “advance aviation” there.