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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Freedom Sports
- ^ FlyMicro biography Archived 10 August 2007 at archive.today
- ^ Country Profile
- ^ Dudh Kosi Kites and Kayak Expedition
- ^ ThrustSSC in Jordan Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Black Rock, Nevada 1997
- ^ Pilot's report
- ^ Richard Noble's October 1997 Update
- ^ World Microlight Championships, Long Marston 2003
- ^ British Champion 2001
- ^ Royal Aero Club Silver Awards
- ^ Kecskemet, Hungary
- ^ British Champion 1998
- ^ World Champion 1996
- ^ 1996 results