www.freedomintheair.org/ - This device developed and manufactured in Australia by our Patron Suzi Duncan - herself a commercial pilot who uses a wheelchair. Its sole use is to allow full rudder authority on the ground and in the air, thus removing the need for legs and feet. We have delevoped our own techniques with regard to procedures or manoeuvres requiring physical multi-tasking.

It is a requirement that all our instructors teaching with the VisionAir hand control can operate and fly with the retro-fit installation.The Vision Air hand controller for use by disabled pilots is a development of the American Blackwood hand controller. The hand controller resembles the Blackwood hand controller, except that the lever part is in two pieces.

This allows the lower part to remain permanently attached to the vertical post of the left rudder on the right side of the aircraft, the pilot only needing to attach the upper half of the hand controller to the lower half using two pins to secure the connection, in order to use the controller.