Our Instructional team are all Commercial Pilots who, with the help of our head of training Neil Fallen who will give you a tailor-made course allowing you to fly and study when you want to. Members of our team are always available in our clubhouse to answer questions, provide help or just have a chat.
If you're looking for our April 1st Team profiles, please click here!
Our Full-time Team
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David Barclay
Operations Manager
David deals with all aircraft operations and customer relations.
In his role with us, David is currently involved in the development of some revolutionary e-Techlog and e-Logbook solutions to help our members with flight time recording.
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Neil Fallen
Head of Training
Neil is our Head of Training and has been teaching people to fly for many years and has thousands of hours experience. Neil is our night instructor and is also a passionate ground school instructor.
Neil is also an amateur poet having written Ode to PPL Training for the Highland Aviation innagrual Wings Dinner
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Lewis Crombie
Instructor
Lewis Crombie joined us in March 2011 and has taken up the role of flight and ground instructor.
Lewis was previously a drop pilot with Paragon Skydiiving and has an accomplished teaching and academic background.
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Our Part-time Team
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John Sharkey
Instructor
John has many years of experience flying as a commercial pilot in the Highlands. He has previously worked as operations manager with Highland Airways.
John's background in aviation and teaching is particularly helpful in his work as one of our instructors.
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David Boag
Examiner / Instructor
David is our Aerobatic Instructor and one of our examiners. David has flown a wide range of aircraft from a Bristol Freighter to Airbus A320, MD83's and 737's. He also spent 3 years as an Airship Captain!
It is said if you kiss Dave's head you will have good luck for many years (girls only!!)
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Alan Nicholson
Examiner
Alan Nicholson is a very experienced pilot who conducts a majority of our PPL Flight exams.
Alan has many 1000's of flight hours, a large number recorded as a 747 pilot / instructor. He has been imortalised as the instructor on the Sky TV show "Flying Heavy Metal" (Alan's the chap in the red shirt!)
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Daniel Racionzer
Danny is a one of our part time flying instructors. He is passionate about aviation and loves flying through the Highlands.
Danny is a fully qualified commercial pilot who is qualified to teach the PPL, NPPL, Night Rating, Mountain Flying Course.. and Ground School.
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