Simon Baker (pilot)

Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation (Long Marston, Warwickshire) [ [http://www.freedomsports.co.uk/ Freedom Sports] ] . He has three times been Microlight World Champion (1996, 1999 & 2003) and six times British Champion. [ [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] ]

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, [ [http://www.flymicro.com/everest/index.cfm?page=docsHistoryMicrolights.htm#_1986 Dudh Kosi Kites and Kayak Expedition] ] and was a pilot/spotter for the ThrustSSC team in Jordan [ [http://freespace.virgin.net/s.baker/jordan.htm ThrustSSC in Jordan] ] and in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. [ [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] ]

Titles and Awards

* World Microlight Champion, and Gold (dual flexwing, with Anita Holmes) 2001 [ [http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/index.htm World Microlight Championships, Long Marston 2003] ]

* British Champion (dual microlight, with Anita Holmes) 2001 [ [http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/index.htm British Champion 2001] ]

* Silver Medal of the Royal Aero Club, 1999 [ [http://www.royalaeroclub.org/awardSilver.htm Royal Aero Club Silver Awards] ]

*World Champion, and Gold (dual trike, with Anita Holmes), World Championships 1999 Kecskemet, Hungary [ [http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/wc99.htm Kecskemet, Hungary] ]

* British Champion, 1998 [ [http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/index.htm 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) [ [http://members.aol.com/SBakerMM/comps97.htm World Champion 1996] ] [ [http://www.midlandmicrolights.co.uk/comps96.htm 1996 results] ]

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