Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation (Long Marston, Warwickshire).Freedom Sports He has three times been Microlight World Champion (1996, 1999, & 2003) and six times British Champion.FlyMicro biography 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,Dudh Kosi Kites and Kayak Expedition and was a pilot/spotter for the ThrustSSC team in Jordan ThrustSSC in Jordan and in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.Black Rock, Nevada 1997Pilot's reportRichard Noble's October 1997 Update
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) 2003World Microlight Championships, Long Marston 2003 British Champion (dual microlight, with Anita Holmes) 2001British Champion 2001 Silver Medal of the Royal Aero Club, 1999 Royal Aero Club Silver Awards World Champion, and Gold (dual trike, with Anita Holmes), World Championships 1999 Kecskemet, HungaryKecskemet, Hungary British Champion, 1998British Champion 1998 World Champion, British Team Gold, and Gold (Weight-Shift Two Seater Class), 1996 World Microlight Championships (Cato Ridge, near Durban, South Africa) World Champion 19961996 results
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