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.today
  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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