Simon Baker
British aviator

Simon Baker

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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.

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)