Blind Pilot flies halfway around the world

Adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber has flown half-way around the world - even though he is completely blind.

The daring Brit, 57, navigated a microlight from London to Australia using "talking" computer software.

The last leg - from Indonesia to Darwin - was the longest so far and was delayed over the weekend because of bad weather. He will complete his record-breaking, 13,500 mile journey by flying to Sydney later this week.

The father-of-three, who also likes to climb mountains, skydive and run marathons, has flown further than any other "sight impaired" pilot.

Miles, a motivational speaker from Duffield, near Derby, uses navigates and steers using the on board computer but also has a co-pilot, Storm Smith, for back-up and to describe the views.

I say this is really cool and motivates me in my work to make the web accessible to all. Just because you have a vision impairment does not mean that you do not want do travel buy nice things and so on... just like anybody else.