Our Instructors & staff

David Young CFI / FE Instructor

David Young (dy) is Kemble Flying Clubs’ Chief Flying Instructor and also one of the most experienced microlight instructors in the country with over 10,000 hours of airborne time teaching people to fly.

Chris Glover FE

Chris started gliding while at Hatfield Polytechnic in 1983. Chris now has around 250 hours in gliders, has flown in a number of “club class” competitions and has flown gliders in Spain, France and Australia.

Lee Galliford FI

Lee Galliford is a Flying Instructor who completed his instructor training course in Spring 2017 and has over 800 hours experience instructing since.  He can teach in all three of our three axis aircraft.

Neil Douglas FI Flexwing

Neil’s first experience of flight was as a 12 year old on a short commercial flight from Glasgow to Edinburgh. In 2022 he trained as a Flying Instructor and joined us at Kemble, where he teaches the majority of our flex wing training.

Aarti is an accomplished NPPL Pilot with over 300 hours in Pipistrel and experience flying through Europe. She learned to fly at Damyns Hall but this year joined the Kemble Flying Club Team and has already converted to the 600kg Skyranger. Her mission is to ultimately remove the admin load completely from dy so he can focus just on teaching. Aarti can be contacted at admin@kembleflyingclub.com and normally Tuesday to Thursday in the office at 01285 770077.