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Personal Profile:
Originally from Yorkshire, now resident in Romsey,
Hampshire, UK. Educated Leeds Grammar School and Bristol University
(B.Sc.(Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering).
There was an initial career of many years in the I.T. world, but now concentrating on Fixed Wing Flying
Instruction, Examinations & Pilot Flight Tests, with radio training and radio licence testing too.
Writing
articles for aviation magazines (publications in the aviation press total many hundred since the late 1990s), hosting the popular all day PPL Masterclass Seminars, and supporting
CAA, NATS and GASCo safety initiatives also fill a lot of time. Awarded the national Safety
Award by AOPA(UK) in 2008.
Currently the flight instructor / examiner at Popham
Airfield (EGHP) situated 6 miles SSW of Basingstoke,
Hampshire, UK, with occasional 'stand-in' tasks at
or Bournemouth (EGHH). UK Resident South African instructor supporting
S.A. PPLs in the UK. Since the 2007-08 acamdemic year I have been a visiting lecturer for Meteorology at Brunel University, Middlesex, writing and lecturing a module for their M.Sc, also used as an option on their aeronautical engineering first degree.
Curriculum
Aeronautae:
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Personal
Licences / Ratings
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PPL (A) Channel Islands Aero Club
(Jersey) as a CCF cadet on an RAF Flying Scholarship.
Night Rating (Southampton), Multi
Rating (Bournemouth), IMC Rating (Bournemouth).
BCPL 1992 (Bournemouth), AFI 1993
(Chichester Goodwood), QFI Upgrade 1995 (Compton Abbas). Full
Commercial Licence (CPL) 1996 (UK), JAA PPL/IMC Flight Examiner
2003 (Bournemouth). JAA CPL also held to enable instructing or testing in 'JAR' land.
Validations and Renewals: Flight
Examiner for NPPL, JAR SEP and IMC, and S.A. CAA Approved for
South African PPL renewals and type ratings. (Rare in the UK!)
FRTOL (Radio) Examiner 2004 (Based at Popham
Hampshire) for VHF and HF
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