I've been flying since 1986 and recently qualified as a flying instructor. I recently left Rolls-Royce after 30 years service and can't wait to get this trip started and take our syndicate aircraft to Greenland for the sights and the flying challenges posed.

A late arrival to flying I obtained my license in 2015 and have been hooked ever since! I am a small animal veterinary surgeon and owner of a private veterinary practice near Birmingham. I have flown exclusively around the UK and mainland Europe over the last few years but this will be my first trip to Iceland or Greenland (by any means) so what better way to do it than by joining the Greenland Air Trophy! Role on June 21st !

I am supervising the registrations and management side of our AirTrophy :) Besides holding sailplane and private pilot licence,member of the aero-club Ocova, Slovakia. Always have been in field of not only aeronautical technologies. Currently staying at EUROCONTROL, where I work on analyzing and studying the latest trends in the air traffic monitoring and surveillance, as a part of the team for direct support to ARTAS users.

Flying both Rotary and Fixed Wing aircraft. Graduated from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into British Army Air Corps.

Creator of the VintageAirRally, and the Air Trophy series of STOL competitions.

Duncan Matthews was a Royal Navy helicopter pilot, flying the Westland Lynx helicopter from the back of frigates and destroyers all around the world. Highlights of a varied naval career include some awesome flying, officer training, leading a multi-national element of the United Nations in Cambodia, commanding ships, and working in the UK Ministry of Defence. He served in the Royal Navy for 25 years.

Since leaving the Service, Duncan has worked for two major telecommunications companies and now provides crisis management advice, training and mentoring across a range of industries from nuclear power to academia.

Based on the south coast of the UK, Duncan is an active aviator, regularly flying a Cessna 150 Aerobat and a Tiger Moth out of Compton Abbas in Dorset.

Duncan enjoys working as Air Operations Coordinator with Prepare2Go, participating in the Zoute Air Trophy 2018 and Greenland Air Trophy 2019.

Air Trophy Press Officer and official photographer.

Also creator of "Inspired Photographer: Made in Belgium".
I spent more than twenty years sailing and studied at the Royal Military Academy as a deck officer cadet. I'm an adventurer at heart and I like big stories, giving Prepare2Go my photo credit since 2017. I do speak French, Dutch, English, Italian and I manage in German and Spanish.
I feel as comfortable at sea as in the air, analytical and quick-witted, I always have the word for laughs and give support.

Born in Congo ... raised in Congo and Rwanda, the adventure of travelling was always right at my doorstep.
On a personal note, Africa ranks first with me ... but never "blasé" and always ready to discover new horizons as long as we can expect some "exploraction"!!!

Mike McGinty was commissioned as an officer in the British Army from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1987. He completed the Army Pilot’s Course and was awarded his military pilot's ‘wings’ in 1992. He flew the Gazelle, Lynx and Apache helicopters operationally and commanded a number of utility and reconnaissance helicopter flights, and an Apache attack helicopter squadron. His flying career culminated with command and overall responsibility for 9 Regiment Army Air Corps and Dishforth Airfield comprising over 600 military personnel, 25 aircraft and 250 vehicles on a 200 hectare airfield site.

Organisationally, Mike was first the lead operations officer for the UK Joint Helicopter Command, an organisation of 15000 personnel operating 250 aircraft, and then the planning team leader for 16 Air Assault Brigade, the UK’s premier strategic entry and reaction force including all airborne and aviation forces. Operationally, he deployed twice with the United Nations: as a Military Observer to Iraq in 1992 and then to Bosnia in the mid-nineties. In July 2006 he took his Apache Helicopter Squadron to Helmand province, commanding the Joint Helicopter Force Forward base at Bastion, flying and fighting on combat operations. He commanded the UK Joint Helicopter Force (Iraq) through the politically sensitive final months until their final withdrawal in July 09 and deployed again between June and Nov 2010 to command the UK Joint Helicopter Force (Afghanistan). This comprised aircrew from all 3 environments and 7 different nations operating all of the 30+ UK helicopters through another intensive ‘fighting season’ of combat operations. As a result of his success in balancing operational priorities in the face of significant risk, he was awarded the Queens Commendation for Valuable Conduct in person by HRH The Prince of Wales.

Academically, Mike earned an MSc in Management from Cranfield University and an MA in Defence Studies from Kings College, University of London. He was selected to spend 3 years he teaching leadership, ethics, command and planning to serving Master’s Degree students for the Canadian Armed Forces in Toronto. On retirement from the British Army, he became a Canadian citizen, transferred to the Primary Reserve of the Canadian Army where he has since been promoted to the rank of Colonel. In his civilian career, he was the Chief of Staff to the CEO of one of the largest publicly traded cannabis companies in Canada and now works as an academic instructor, business development, leadership and crisis management consultant to a number of companies of varying size.

Married with two teenage children, Mike is a very keen skier, novice paraglider pilot, aging distance runner and athlete, and maintains his flying proficiency as a civilian flying instructor, having completed a single engine piston aircraft flight across the Atlantic and helped lead a flying safari of the Sahara.