The EFAC Committee

I’m Jim….

I’ve been flying for a couple of years now. I trained at Tayside Aviation.

I currently own four aircraft and have had the opportunity to fly across the U.K. in them.

In the short tenure I will have the chairmanship at EFAC my goals are to optimise member communications and networks, while ensuring club members get value for money and a positive experience at our airfield.

I’m always happy you take folks up and give them “a shot” of my aircraft.

Please feel free to contact me on any item you believe will improve life at Fife.

Having first learned to fly on C150s at Perth with the Air Cadets in the 1960s, I flew a Jodel D117 at Inverness for a few months but then let my PPL lapse. However, I came back to flying at Fife and revalidated my licence in 1996. I rent Club aircraft, preferring the Warrior.

Over the years I have flown to Islay, Oban, Plockton, Inverness, Fishburn near Durham, Kirkbride and several places in between. I've recently retired, so I have more time to get involved in the Club ..... and I’m keen to get more airfields in my log book!

With my father having been in the RAF, I’ve always had a fascination with aircraft, but despite this, I came to flying relatively late in life. After a career in farming and training National Hunt (jumps) racehorses, I decided at the age of 46 that perhaps I would like to learn to fly after all.

It was then suggested that I could get a job in aviation and so began the long slog of training for my Commercial Pilot’s Licence – studying for the ATPL ground exams was certainly a shock to the system almost 30 years after having left school! This was followed by MEP, FI, Aerobatic and, most recently, Instrument Ratings. I have been instructing at Fife since October 2015, still farm just outside Cupar and never want to take another exam again!

After aspiring to become a pilot from a young age, I eventually started training at Fife, and latterly at Dundee, in 2018 and received my licence in early 2020. After renting for 3 years, I purchased a share in a PA28 Archer II with the aim of going further afield and exploring more airfields.

I was a mature student (over 50) when I took up flying after planning to do it all my adult life. I trained in PA28’s and have been a member of Fife & of the Socata TB9 group for a few years, in that short time I’ve pushed personal boundaries, flown different aircraft inc VP training in the TB10 & made many new friends, I’ve found Fife Airfield a fantastic place to be & be part off. It is great to be around like minded people who want to support this fantastic local airport & flying club.

I help out the club with their social media pages, events & marketing I have always been keen on aircraft and flying and delighted when my husband Andy decided to become a pilot and now we go flying as often as we can.