A high-flyer has been crowned British Paramotor Champion for the third year running.

Now Michel Carnet, of Beechwood Avenue, Hollingbury, Brighton, has set his sights on becoming world champion.

Paramotoring combines paragliding with the use of a small petrol engine.

Mr Carnet, 41, won the 2002 British title after four days of tests, including precision flying and navigation exercises, over the jubilee weekend.

Mr Carnet defeated 32 competitors at the event near Huntington in Cambridgeshire.

Mr Carnet, who has been paramotoring since 1988, said: "Having won it twice, I had lots of pressure on me but it all went well."

Next year, Mr Carnet will compete individually and with a Great British team, hoping to beat world champions Spain.

Mr Carnet won the silver medal at the 1995 European Paramotor Championships and was twice British hang-gliding champion in the Eighties.

He is chief flying instructor at Sky Systems, a gliding school in Woodbourne Avenue, Hollingbury.