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Old 27th Nov 2016, 20:08
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Mike Flynn
 
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Terry Holloway

This might seem strange but I am now posting the below in defence of Terry Holloway.

Terry has done a lot for GA over his career as can be seen from this.

Terry Holloway was born on 5th January 1945 and joined No 424 (Southampton) Squadron of the Air Training Corps in 1959. As an air cadet, he flew solo in a T31 glider at the Voluntary Gliding School at Christchurch in 1961. The following year, he joined the Royal Air Force as a Halton apprentice and continued his gliding with the Windrushers Gliding Club at RAF Bicester, which subsequently became the RAF Gliding & Soaring Association Centre. He has flown over 3,000 hours in gliders, and qualified as a full category British Gliding Association Gliding Instructor and a Motor Glider Instructor. Terry developed considerable expertise in mountain gliding in the Alps, and led the first Royal Air Force gliding expedition which flew over the Andes from Chile into Argentina in 1996.

Prior to his retirement from the Royal Air Force, Terry was a Vice-Chairman of the RAF Gliding & Soaring Association (RAFGSA) with particular responsibility for safety and operational matters. On his retirement from the RAF, he was made a Life Member of the RAFGSA.

Terry gained his Private Pilot’s Licence at the Luton Flying Club in 1963 having first achieved a “C” gliding certificate. He learned to fly on Austers soloing in 3 hrs 25 minutes and, subsequently purchased a share in a Tiger Moth. Since then, he has flown over 100 types of light aircraft and has been involved in glider towing, parachute dropping, air to air photography, air to ground photography as well as recreational and business flying. He has completed a number of long distance flights in light aircraft including to the North of Norway and the Mediterranean. In 2000, he flew a Piper Aztec from England to the United States down the East coast, across the mid West and up the West coast to Seattle. He has maintained a keen interest in vintage aircraft having flown and operated a de Havilland 87b Hornet Moth and Tiger Moths over a number of years.

He holds a Civil Aviation Authority Display Authorisation, is a highly accomplished formation pilot and has been a regular performer at flying displays throughout the UK. Terry flies on British and American pilots Licences with multi-engined and Instrument ratings, and regularly flies his Company’s PA27 Aztec, and a variety of light aircraft. He has amassed in excess of 5,500 hours in powered aircraft which brings his total flying experience to more than 8500 hours, in 193 different aircraft and glider types.

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