Starspeed Pilots
All Starspeed pilots have many years’ professional flying experience. All hold the highest grade of professional licence, the Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) with Instrument Rating. Many also hold instructor and examiner ratings. Nearly all Starspeed pilots have had the benefit of the extensive and exacting UK military training system, and all bring a wealth of tacit knowledge and experience from a variety of operations around the world. But experience and qualifications are not all that define a Starspeed pilot. Starspeed management makes a point of only recruiting pilots who can reflect the best qualities of the company’s hard earned reputation for service and individual attention, both in and around their primary flying duties.

Captain Kevin Gleeson
Training Captain
Royal Marines Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 10,000
JAR Airline Transport Pilot Licence with instrument and night ratings
CAA Type Rating and Instrument Examiner
Professional Pilot Since 1983

Captain Neil Strevens
Pilot
RAF Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 7,000
CAA Airline Transport Licence with instrument and night ratings
Professional Pilot Since 1981

Captain Richard Banham
Pilot
Army Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 4,000
CAA Airline Transport Licence with instrument and night ratings
Professional Pilot Since 1980

Captain Phil Carpenter
Pilot
Royal Navy Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 4,000
JAR Airline Transport Licence with instrument and night ratings
Professional Pilot Since 1994

Captain Colin Baulf MBE
Pilot
British Army Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 4,000
JAR Airline Transport Licence with instrument and night ratings
Professional Pilot Since 1981

Captain Tim Cowin
Pilot
Royal Navy Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 2,500
JAR Airline Transport Licence with instrument and night ratings
Professional Pilot Since 1999

Captain Luke Morgan
Pilot
Royal Navy Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 4,500
JAR Airline Transport Pilot Licence with instrument and night ratings
CAA Type Rating Instructor
Professional Pilot Since 1988

Captain Craig Smith
Pilot
British Army Trained
Total helicopter Hours in Excess of 1,400
CAA Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and night ratings
Professional Pilot Since 2000
