About us
Meet the team
The instructors and examiners behind every Easy PPL course: thousands of hours in the air, and decades of teaching pilots.
Nigel WillsonEasy PPL Ground School Head of Training · Author of every course
Nigel Willson
- 9,000+
- hours flown
- 6,000+
- hours instructing
- 1985
- first flying lesson
Nigel learnt to fly in 1985 with Horizon Flying at Ipswich Airport. He's Head of Training for an Approved Training Organisation as well as for Easy PPL, and Chief Pilot for Anglian War Birds. He teaches on every type of aircraft, from warbirds and open-cockpit tail-draggers to glass-cockpit rocket-ships.
As the designer and author of all our courses (and this website), Nigel writes them to a high professional standard that puts best practice, tips and techniques alongside the theory you need. He also runs his own flight training, such as the Advanced PPL, Formation and Short Strip courses, and as an aerobatic display pilot and air display organiser you may well see him on the air show scene.
His hours span the major manufacturers' families (nose-wheel and tail-wheel), vintage aircraft and warbirds, including Hurricanes, Yaks, Tiger Moths, Chipmunks and Harvards, and some rare types: most of which Nigel also displays. He's the users' champion too, responsible for how easy the site is to use and understand.
Ratings and roles
- CAA flight instructor and examiner
- Ground instructor and examiner
- Commercial Pilot's Licence
- Instrument, Night, Aerobatic and AUPRT instructor ratings
- Chief Pilot, Anglian War Birds
- AOPA Training & Education Working Group
Lee MerrittEasy PPL Ground School Technology · Flight Instructor and Senior Examiner
Lee Merritt
- 27+
- years building online systems
- 6,000+
- hours instructing
- 2000
- first flying lesson
The technology wizard behind Easy PPL Ground School, Lee has over 27 years' experience building dynamic systems on the internet.
He learnt to fly with John Pickering at Earls Colne in 2000, and has since flown widely across the UK and Europe in his own PA28 Cherokee. He studied ATPL theory in-house at CAE Oxford Aviation Academy and holds a Commercial Pilot's Licence.
Lee is a full-time professional flight instructor and CAA examiner for initial licences and advanced ratings. When he teaches, he puts a high degree of situational awareness and a sharp attitude to safety first, from the very first lesson in the cockpit. In his spare time he enjoys puzzles, and all things mathematical and musical.
Ratings and roles
- CAA Flight Instructor and Examiner
- Commercial Pilot's Licence
- Danish Trafikstyrelsen FCL.900(c) & FCL.1000(c) authorisations
- Flight Instructor Course Instructor (FICI), Multi-Engine and Instrument instructor certificates
- PPL, CPL, TMG, FIE, GR(A) & FRTOL Examiner Certificates
- Chief Flying Instructor at Cranfield
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