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Instructors and Staff

miker

The proudest moments in his aviation career were sending his daughter solo on her seventeenth birthday and following an age reduction by the CAA his son solo on his sixteenth birthday.

Mike is also keen to teach students the importance of safety when in and around the aircraft. He is committed to only flying in the optimum weather conditions to ensure students make safe and practical progress throughout their PPL course.

Mike Robinson
CFI

Mike has been at Turweston for the past 10 years and has 26 years of instructing experience, amounting to over 11,000 hours spent teaching in the air!

Mikes obsession with aviation began at the age of 14 when he joined his local Air Cadet Squadron and he has since passed the ‘bug’ on to his two children.

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Simon Braithwaite has been a Flying Instructor for over 20 years, both in the Royal Air Force and in the PPL world. He has instructed on a wide variety of aircaft including the Tornado, Bulldog, Cirrus, as well as taildraggers and simple and complex single engine piston aircraft.

Simon enjoys teaching not only the standard PPL syllabus, but also more advanced PPL skills including IMC ratings, formation, spinning and aerobatics.

In his spare time Simon is a commercial pilot flying Boeing 747s.

Simon Braithwaite
Flying Instructor

simon@turwestonflyingclub.org.uk

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Eddie Towndrow
PPL
Operations and Admin

eddie@turwestonflyingclub.org.uk

Eddie’s first flight was as ballast after a C of A inspection in a Piper Tri-Pacer at the age of 17, when he worked on Portsmouth Airport back in ‘63. He moved to Oxfordshire in ’68, becoming a senior design / project engineer & technical co-ordinator, on a number of high profile national and international particle physics experiments.
Taking early retirement after 37 years in science support, fulfilled his long standing ambition and obtained a JAR PPL(A) in January 2006. A member of the Turweston fraternity since 2005, heads up the front of office operations desk and administration.
Pastimes: flying, flying, being near others flying, and occasionally when instructed, some decorating.

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paul@turwestonflyingclub.org.uk

Paul Shenton
Flying Instructor

Paul learnt to fly on the Scottish Aviation Bulldog whilst on Manchester and Salford Universities Air Squadron back in the early 80's. This was followed by a further eleven years of service which involved three tours flying the Tornado F3. In 1995 Paul was selected to spend two seasons displaying the Spitfire and Hurricane with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. During this time Paul was privileged to fly the Hurricane over Buckingham Palace during the VE celebrations.
Paul is currently a Training Captain on the Airbus A320.

John Meares
Flying Instructor

John’s flying started as a hang glider pilot while at university studying Aeronautical Engineering. This extended to include microlights, sailplanes and finally the mighty Cessna C152 over the next few years.
An Aerodynamics PhD and several years designing Formula 1 cars got in the way for a while, but the flying bug never went away. He later renewed his PPL, went on to obtain a Commercial Pilots Licence, a Multi Engine Instrument Rating and a Flying Instructor Rating and started instructing at Turweston in 2006.

In 2007 John started flying as a First Officer on the Airbus A320 from Heathrow and amongst more usual destinations has also had the pleasure of flying to places within Iran, the Lebanon, Jordan and the Sudan.