Simon Baker (pilot) explained
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]
Notes and References
- http://www.freedomsports.co.uk/ Freedom Sports
- http://www.flymicro.com/comps/comp.cfm?view=person&comp=118&action=635853&CFID=33190&CFTOKEN=55677272 FlyMicro biography
- http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/pfil/profile3.htm Country Profile
- http://www.flymicro.com/everest/index.cfm?page=docs\History\Microlights.htm#_1986 Dudh Kosi Kites and Kayak Expedition
- http://freespace.virgin.net/s.baker/jordan.htm ThrustSSC in Jordan
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/blackroc.htm Black Rock, Nevada 1997
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/jfreport.htm Pilot's report
- http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/RNs_October_1997_Update.html Richard Noble's October 1997 Update
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/index.htm World Microlight Championships, Long Marston 2003
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/index.htm British Champion 2001
- http://www.royalaeroclub.org/awardSilver.htm Royal Aero Club Silver Awards
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/wc99.htm Kecskemet, Hungary
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/index.htm British Champion 1998
- http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/comps97.htm World Champion 1996
- http://www.midlandmicrolights.co.uk/comps96.htm 1996 results
