Cross Country, issue 132, November / December 2010
KIRSTY CAMERON is a laugh. Meeting her in west London, where she works in IT for a local council, she is immediately down to earth and down to business. “I know a pub about 10 minutes away,” she says as she sets off through the crowds of lunchtime office workers.
It’s a crisp, blue-sky autumn day and the talk naturally turns to that most-British obsession: house prices. She has just bought a house outside London, closer to her local flying sites but further away from work. More space, smaller mortgage, longer commute, but it’s ok, is the gist. Before the move she spent seven years renting in this part of London and she is clearly on home turf. “I told you it’d be empty,” she says as we walk through the door of the Red Lion.
“It’s been a really busy year,” she says as we sit down. It has. This year Kirsty was crowned British Women’s Champion for the third year in a row, won the Women’s Paragliding Open in Ager, spent two weeks in the rain at the European Championships in Austria, flew her first British-100 km, competed in her first PWC and generally got to grips with being a force to be reckoned with. She came 11th overall in the British Championships this year, and was second overall in Serial Class, something she’s prouder of than winning the women’s title. It means she’s up there as a pilot, not as a ‘woman pilot’, of which more later.
More in issue 132 of Cross Country magazine (subscription required)
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