Rob has been flying microlights for around 30 years and has more than 4,500 hours of flying experience.
He has been an enthusiastic competitor in national and international competitions. Since starting in 1994 he has won Gold, two Silver and three Bronze medals in international microlighting competitions.
2014 was a great year as Rob has, for the first time, become the dual seat British National Champion, as well as coming 3rd in the World Championship in Hungary. Prior to this event Rob also participated in the Microlight Tour de France and also won the competition in that event.
In 2003 Rob was competition director for the World Microlight Championships in the UK and then again in France in 2005.
He has been farming on the family farm at Over, Gloucester, with his wife Sue since he left college in 1981. Now his three sons are taking on responsibility of the farm, enabling Rob the time to teach people to do the activity he enjoys most: microlight flying.
Neil learnt to fly with Rob in 2015 and has rapidly built hundreds of hours of flying experience.
In 2016 Neil moved to Scarborough and his aircraft was based out of Beverley. During his years in Scarborough he took countless friends flying and enjoyed it so much he decided to train as a Flying Instructor and he went on to complete the course with Exodus Airsports in Plaistows. He returned to Gloucester in 2022.
His first taste of microlight competitions was the annual Franglais Friendly competition when it came to England in 2019 starting initially at Sandown on the Isle of Wight and then finishing at Over Farm. He is keen to take part in future Franglais Friendly events as well as the National Open Series and he hopes to offer the opportunity to his students to join him for some of them.
Neil is married to Karen and since leaving University in 1986 he has had a career as an IT Consultant and more recently he spent 13 years as a Baptist Minister. He is now focussing his time on helping others to experience the sheer joy of Microlight flying and to learn to fly for themselves.