Where do you live?
I’m from mid Wales, but I’ve been running away from the cold since I was 29. For the last 25 years I’ve been in Algodonales, Spain.
How did you get into flying?
I was offered a free paragliding lesson to review a school in Abergavenny for a magazine in 1994. A few flights later my head was truly turned. I later ran a rural newspaper with a couple of mates, but paragliding quickly curtailed that career.
What’s your earliest flying memory?
I finished my licence in Turkey in ’97. It was a heady week of massive flights, terrifying thermals, alarming sink cycles – with some pilotage education thrown in – and a lot of drinking. Back in Wales I moved to a house facing my local site. One afternoon I found myself in orbit – my car, which I’d driven...
