Potted CV:
I began flying in the mid 70's, training on Beagle Pups at Birmingham Airport. Shortly after getting my Private Pilot's Licence (PPL), I involved myself in designing a pilot navigation aid (called the TIMESCALE) and formed a company, Morgen Avco Ltd (MGA), to market it. MGA sold the TIMESCALE world-wide via mail order and pilot shops. In 1979 I became a Flight Instructor, working for training schools at Coventry and Birmingham before joining the ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (ELO) for their world tour in 1981. After the ELO period, in the late 80's, I began developing an aviation software package called AIRTAX which eventually became an integrated system used by operators world-wide. AIRTAX was first tailored for a local air-taxi company who adopted it's name as their radio callsign. During 1995 I studied for a professional licence and in 1996 joined Warwickshire Aerocentre at Birmingham (who had inherited the radio callsign AIRTAX). I began flying their Piper Seneca first on traffic-spotting flights for local radio station BRMB (broadcasting on 96.4 MHz so our callsign 'AIRTAX 964'), then on commercial charters to the UK and Europe. From 1996 to 2000 I also spent summer seasons instructing RAF scholarship cadets at Wellesbourne airfield (near Stratford). After turning 60 and no longer able to fly single-pilot public transport flights, I became company Training Captain and then in July 2003,  was appointed Chief Pilot. Early in 2004, the owner - Jon Poole - retired and, along with Alan Smith and Mike Chamberlain, we negotiated a purchase deal to become the new owners. We changed its  name to Air Taxis Ltd and sold the company in October 2004. Subsequently renamed Jet Options Ltd, the company bought a Citation jet and the position of Chief Pilot went to a jet rated pilot. I continued to work for Jet Options in various capacities until the company folded in 2009.