Steve Oddy

Steve Oddy, the managing director and chief programmer of Oddsoft, is a full-time CAA Staff Flight Examiner holding FE, FIE and IRE authorisations and currently rated on TMG, SEP, MEP, Cessna SET, PA31T Cheyenne and the SC-7. He joined the RAF in 1969 and gained an aeronautics degree at Southampton University. After a career flying Vulcans and Canberras and instructing on Jet Provosts he left the RAF in 1989 and joined British Aerospace. Steve spent the next 8 years in Saudi Arabia instructing on the Pilatus PC-9 in Riyadh where he helped to set up an instructor school for the Royal Saudi Air Force. He found enough spare time to complete an Open University degree in computer science as well as writing the original Radio Aids Navigation Tutor. Steve returned to the UK with his family in 1997 and moved to Oxfordshire where he worked as an instructor at Oxford Air Training School, the largest commercial flying school in Europe, until October 1999.

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