Miles joined the RAF in 1989 as an Air Engineer and flew in the C130 Hercules aircraft. In 1994 he was selected to retrain as a pilot and flew the E3-D, B200 King Air and Sentinel. The highlight of his RAF career was from 2004-2008 when he flew the Dakota and Lancaster for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
After almost 25 years in the RAF, Miles became a commercial pilot and has flown the Airbus 320/1, Bombardier Global Express 5000/6000 and now the Boeing 737-800.
He thought his involvement with historic aircraft had ended but was delighted to be asked to join the team at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre and started to taxy NX611 'Just Jane' in 2017.