British
Aerobatic Champion
(Unlimited Category)
in 1998, 1999, 2001 & 2003
British
Aerobatic Champion |
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Alan Cassidy is one of Britain's best-known and most highly experienced aerobatic instructors. He won the British National Aerobatic Championship in 1998, 1999, 2001 & 2003. As a member of the British Aerobatic Team he has taken part in six World Championship competitions. Alan has over 3,000 hours in the Pitts Special and has flown numerous other aerobatic types including all the modern Russian Sukhois, Yaks and German Extra aircraft. He has been a full-time aerobatic pilot and instructor since 1991, and is the developer of the Aresti computer software for aerobatic forms and sequence diagrams. He has competed in the World Aerobatic Championships in Cape Town (1995), Oklahoma (1996), Kansas (1997), Slovakia (1998) and Toulouse/Muret, France in August 2000. In September 1999 Alan was part of the British Team flying in the European Unlimited Championships at Cordoba, Spain. He has since flown for the UK in the 2001 World Air Games at Burgos, Spain, and at the 2002 Unlimited European Aerobatic Championships in Lithuania, flying the CAP-232. In 2003 he flew in the World Championships in Florida, USA in a rented Giles G202. In 2006 and 2007 Alan flew in International Advanced aerobatic competitions, winning a Bronze Medal in the Second Unknown sequence in Finland in 2007. |
| Alan graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in Mechanical Sciences prior to joining the RAF in 1970. His Air Force career as a professional aeronautical engineer lasted 20 years and included maintaining and flying in Harriers among other more mundane tasks. Alan's flying experience also includes commercial air transport operations, and he holds UK CAA ATPL/IR and FAA CPL licences. | |
| Alan is the current BAeA Delegate to the International Aerobatic Commission
(CIVA) of
the FAI, a member of the Commission's Rules Sub-Committee and Chairman of the Catalogue
Sub-Committee. He has been Chairman of the BAeA since January 2006. In 2002 Alan was awarded the coveted Tissandier Diploma of the FAI, and in 2003 the Silver Medal of the Royal Aero Club, both in recognition of his dedicated work for the furtherance of sport aerobatics in the UK and abroad. He also studies butterflies. |
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| Alan is seen on the right at Sywell, beside his CAP 222 with the Neil Williams Challenge Trophy, after winning the British National Championships for 1999. |
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