Andy worked at the Army Parachute Centre for many years as an instructor, training students and doing parachute displays throughout the country. Now a civilian Instructor he can be found most weekends throughout the year combining his love of skydiving with his passion for teaching AFF (unless Arsenal are at home then he mysteriously disappears). A multi medal winning and current national champion we are proud to have Andy as part of the team.
His dedication to the sport is absolute, Andy is currently the Chairperson of the Competitions committee for the Parachute Association Council.
Andy was also part of the worlds first "live" advert with the Honda team for channel 4 when the team formed the letters H.O.N.D.A whilst in freefall over skydive Lillo in Spain, an awesome feat under huge amounts of pressure alongside his wife and ISS team member Claire "Sparky" Scott and British 8 way team member and ISS team member Phil Hartree also taking part in the live descent. Congratulations to them all on a completing the jump successfully.
See the Honda ad here
Also holding the record for the longest indoor skydive of 1 hour 38 mins at the Airkix wind tunnel. Andy has represented GB 6 times at World Skydiving competition and represented the UK as part of the GB 8 way national team in the 2008 world championship in France.
So when not in the sky, working to get the best out of our students, coaching in the wind tunnel or training with the National 8 Way Team, Andy always has Arsenal’s season ticket to fall back on.
With this much energy and enthusiasm we have had to ban Andy from consuming either Haribo or Red bull.
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