Simon Baker

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 Jordanand in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

• 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)