Perhaps if we look back at the thread and reflect the wording on the Flysiam website:
In the beginning
Siam Kidd was born and bred in Norwich, Norfolk where he soon knew he belonged in the air. Singled out as one of the Top 5 Air Cadets in the country and winning a string of RAF Flying Scholarships, he flew solo for the very first time soon after his 16th Birthday. The Royal Air Force beckoned and he soon became one of the youngest Officers and trainee Pilots in the air force at the time and flew all sorts of aircraft small and large from pistons to jet powered and also helicopters.
On the ground, he undertook a number of special duties including an 8 month detachment to the Ministry of Defence working very closely with MPs and Senior Generals, but never lost his passion for flying.
During his 6-7 years in the air force he gained many various skills for life and for flying as well as traveling around the world and also doing some rather exciting flying. He says aerobatics and formation flying is something everyone must experience at least once in their lives.
A self-confessed adrenaline junkie, his favourite hobbies are Skeleton Bobsleigh, Martial Arts, Sky diving and bungee jumping.
Fly Siam Aviation Services
Brought up in a close knit family of entrepreneurs, now out of the air force, he is focusing his 2 passions (flying and business) into a premiere aviation company dedicated to providing top quality service at affordable prices. Fly Siam specialises in everything helicopter related, but excels in winning business for other businesses using helicopters. As a private jet broker, any destination in the world is now achievable. Fly Siam will eventually branch out into formation and aerobatics experience flights, so watch this space!
And then if we look at his own post on this thread:
2.) It seems as though a few of you have googled me etc and found lots of odd connections so let's lay the facts out. In a nut shell, I got my A level results and somehow managed to get in the air force in the pilot branch. I've never been the most academic of types, but I compensate in hard work. Anywho, I was unfortunate and got re roled twice and then eventually found myself in the intelligence community which has happened a lot recently. After a year or so I PVR'd and left the air force as I wasn't happy and really needed to fly. I'm not the best pilot in the world, and not the worst but like all of you here, flying is my passion. I love it and quickly found myself out of the mob with no main income stream and I wasn't flying. So in order to not waste 6/7 years training, I decided to try and convert licences etc and try and become a helo pilot of some sort. Instructor or off shore, I really didn't care. So I got my PPL(H) and started hour building for the cpl as you do and as I got down the line I found out that I could simply set up a broker type company and that by doing this, it would help with becoming VAT registered. And so after speaking to lots
of different pilots, I discovered that everyone had their own 'company of some sort' and one of the things HMRC like to see in order to be approved etc is to see a website or receipts of sales made etc. So I did just that. But due to my enthusiasm or eagerness and commercial type mind, I thought that if I was going to do this, I may as well do it properly, so I got a good website made and started putting the word out there on and offline that I could offer all of these services through brokering etc and earn some form of income which would help with hour building n whatnot. Yes I'm a failed pilot. But at least I've got on with my life and tried to follow my passions. Why does everyone keep rubbing it in my face? People make mistakes and I was young, still am, but I learn from my mistakes and move on. And I'm also of the belief that if you do something, you do it right, so I really wish to do good things with Fly Siam. One of my goals was to one day become an operator in my own right with an AOC/FTO etc. And I'd hire or help out lots of chopped or retiring military pilots as the transition from military to civvy is hard!