Simon Baker (pilot)

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Simon Baker is an aviator and the Chief Flying Instructor at Freedom Sports Aviation (Long Marston, Warwickshire). [1] He has three times been Microlight World Champion (1996, 1999, & 2003) and six times British Champion. [2] [3]

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, [4] and was a pilot/spotter for the ThrustSSC team in Jordan [5] and in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. [6] [7] [8]

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