 He became a Concorde pilot and instructor in 1976, flying the aircraft for 10 years.He went on to become a training Captain on the Boeing 737 from 1986 and retired from British Airways in 2000.A liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Orlebar was in high demand as a lecturer and as a contributor to radio and TV programmes.