Simon Baker (pilot)

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 Jordan and 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)