Hours Flown 1500 Qualifications CPL & DA Position Yak 2 Favourite Display Shoreman on Sea Interests Buying new houses and flying his Yak 52.

 Peter Scandrett MA (Hons) Cantab, is a partner in a top London law firm and is based at their Cheltenham office where he specialises in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Peter has always been involved in aviation as he was taken from airbase to airbase with his father who was a RAF Mosquito and Meteor night-fighter pilot. Inspired by his father, Peter started gliding in 1968 in the CCF and soloed in a glider on his first day. He was awarded the Pilot flying scholarship in 1982 and obtained his PPL in the same year at Staverton. He now has Russian and American pilot licences and has held a Display Authorisation allowing him to carry out display flying since 1994.

When not airborne in his Bucker Jungmann 131E that he bought and flew back from Spain in 1989 he is flying his Yak 52 that he has had since 1994.

Peter has been flying with the Yakovlevs since 2001 and normally flies in position Yak 3. He has recently moved to position Yak 2 and has flown in more than 50 team displays.

Peter splits his time between the UK and New Zealand, where he has a house (on an airfield with his hanger downstairs..) at Pouanui on the Coromandel peninsular. Peter enjoys sailing and riding his BMW motor bike which he takes touring in France, but his real passion is Russian flower arranging.