Simon Baker (pilot)

Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation (Long Marston, Warwickshire).[1] He has three times been Microlight World Champion (1996, 1999 & 2003) and six times British Champion.[2][3]

He has also taken part in several microlighting expeditions, including filming a Channel 4 documentary over Iceland in 1983, flying in the Himalayas near Everest in 1986,[4] and was a pilot/spotter for the ThrustSSC team in Jordan [5] and in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.[6][7][8]

Titles and awards

  • Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Diamond Colibri award for outstanding Microlight or Paramotor achievement, 2008.
  • World Microlight Champion, and Gold (dual flexwing, with Anita Holmes) 2003[9]
  • British Champion (dual microlight, with Anita Holmes) 2001[10]
  • Silver Medal of the Royal Aero Club, 1999 [11]
  • World Champion, and Gold (dual trike, with Anita Holmes), World Championships 1999 Kecskemet, Hungary[12]
  • British Champion, 1998[13]
  • World Champion, British Team Gold, and Gold (Weight-Shift Two Seater Class), 1996 World Microlight Championships (Cato Ridge, near Durban, South Africa) [14][15]

References

  1. ↑ Freedom Sports
  2. ↑ FlyMicro biography Archived 10 August 2007 at Archive.is
  3. ↑ Country Profile
  4. ↑ Dudh Kosi Kites and Kayak Expedition
  5. ↑ ThrustSSC in Jordan Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Black Rock, Nevada 1997
  7. ↑ Pilot's report
  8. ↑ Richard Noble's October 1997 Update
  9. ↑ World Microlight Championships, Long Marston 2003
  10. ↑ British Champion 2001
  11. ↑ Royal Aero Club Silver Awards
  12. ↑ Kecskemet, Hungary
  13. ↑ British Champion 1998
  14. ↑ World Champion 1996
  15. ↑ 1996 results
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