Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation.
Career
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.
Achievements
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 Aeronautical 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).