David Farman spent 22 years as a rotary pilot in the RAF, as a SAR captain on the Sea King and Wessex, Instructor, Examiner and CFS staff member. After leaving the RAF in 2013, he was an MOD contract instructor on the Bell412EP for Cobham Aviation until 2018, when he started to work as an H135 and H145 instructor for Ascent Flight Training, delivering all rotary training to the UK MOD. He is now a military test pilot for CAE in Montreal, Canada.