11 Nov 2026
His passion for aviation began at around the age of four, when his mother started her PPL training at Charles Prince Airport in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia. His instructor even fashioned a little seat for him in the baggage compartment of a Cessna 150! From that moment, he was hooked.
He has spent a lifetime looking skywards at whatever happened to be flying overhead, always wishing he could be up there himself. That dream has since become a reality, and he now owns his own aircraft.
After leaving school, he began and completed a light aircraft engineering apprenticeship before joining the RAF, where he worked on both Tornado and Nimrod aircraft.
Having come full circle, he has returned to his roots in light aviation, with a genuine desire to support and uphold the objectives of the LAA – objectives that he feels very strongly about and which, in many ways, have always been close to his heart.