Simon Baker (pilot)
Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation. He has three times been Microlight World Champion 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 award for outstanding Microlight or Paramotor achievement, 2008.
- World Microlight Champion, and Gold 2003
- British Champion 2001
- Silver Medal of the Royal Aero Club, 1999
- World Champion, and Gold, World Championships 1999 Kecskemet, Hungary
- British Champion, 1998
- World Champion, British Team Gold, and Gold, 1996 World Microlight Championships