Ben King
Ben is a young and passionate fanatic about anything and everything
aviation. From attending airshows since he was young, to picking
up gliding in 2017 - even flying with the Fleet Air Arm for
three weeks in 2019 with cadets. Ben knew he was set on an
aviation career - specifically aspiring towards becoming a
Pilot in the Royal Air Force after his A-Levels. Joining the
Club at the start of 2020, he soon became drawn into the 2-4-CIX
Display Teams, taking up the positions of CAT4 and TIGER6,
before taking over as the Leader of the vBBMF from Peter Dodds
after the 2020 Season. In February 2021, Ben took on the role
of 2-4-CIX Coordinator from his predecessor, Max Symons. When
not flying with 2-4-CIX, Ben can be found either flying regularly
on Sunday mornings, or dipping his toes into Instrument flying
on VATSIM.
Due to real-world commitments, the Tigers group reduced it's display-flying
activities after the 2024 season. There is no named leader of the group at the
moment but interested members can contact either David Gant or Paul Walker.
For the foreseeable future the group will continue to meet for social flights
on JoinFS but with less emphasis on display practice.
Don Johnson
Don used to work as ground crew in the fleet Air Arm and worked
on Electrical and Instruments on various aircraft. Most of
these took part in Air Displays. Don has been interested in
Virtual Flying since getting a copy FS3 and playing with it
at lunch times at work. Since then he has had most versions
Microsoft's flight sims. After redundancy in the 1980s he has
had various jobs ending with IT support. He is now very much
retired and enjoys flying with the Club on Tuesdays and with
the CIX Aerobatics Team (CATs) who fly the
Extra 300 in FSX.
