MALIN LOBB
I’m a PWC comp pilot and SIV instructor based in Annecy where I’ve been for the last five years. I also do some commercial tandems in the summer. My name comes from Malin Head, the most northerly point in Ireland. My dad was a sailing instructor a long time ago and he heard it on the radio, on the BBC’s shipping forecast. It goes, “Dogger, Bay of Biscay, Malin Head…” I always dreamt of flying. I got a two-seater ride in a plane for my 18th birthday. I just thought I had to own a plane to fly. And then I was at Glastonbury Festival and a paramotor flew in low. (He subsequently got done). I went on YouTube, saw people flying above the clouds and thought, I can afford to do…