Simon Baker
British aviator
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| Intro | British aviator | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| is | Aviator Pilot Aircraft pilot | |
| Work field | Military | |
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Biography
Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation (Long Marston, Warwickshire). He has three times been Microlight World Champion (1996, 1999 & 2003) and six times British Champion.
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, and was a pilot/spotter for the ThrustSSC team in Jordan and in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
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
- British Champion (dual microlight, with Anita Holmes) 2001
- Silver Medal of the Royal Aero Club, 1999
- World Champion, and Gold (dual trike, with Anita Holmes), World Championships 1999 Kecskemet, Hungary
- British Champion, 1998
- World Champion, British Team Gold, and Gold (Weight-Shift Two Seater Class), 1996 World Microlight Championships (Cato Ridge, near Durban, South Africa)