Hey there,

Welcome to my blog.

It’s taken me a long while to get around to writing up this page. The reason I’ve delayed is because I didn’t want it to come across like a “Look at me aren’t I great” type of thing. So I struggled a bit with how to get my point across.

I would hope that it expresses the sentiment “This is what you can achieve if you put your mind to it!”

So have a read and let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

Who Is Jeff McCall?

I am the sort of person who will always go out of his way to be different. I promised myself from an early age that I would avoid the ‘rat race’ like the plague and make sure to always walk my own path. I live by the maxim that “Life ain’t no rehearsal!” so will generally try to do whatever I want to do, when I want to do it.

This has stood me in good stead and I have achieved many feats that most others probably only dream of. Not because I have loadsa money – far from it. But because I know from experience that if you really want something that bad, then you can achieve it irrespective of your income. You simply have to take action – continuous and sometimes massive action to get closer and closer to your goals.

I am constantly having to come up with new goals and dreams simply because I achieve them so often through taking action. So I want to share with you here some of the things that really float my boat and demonstrate exactly who I am.

My pride and joy. My own little plane I built from a kit.

My very greatest passion is flying. I have always wanted to be a pilot for as long as I can remember. If you know anything about learning to fly then you’ll know that it’s prohibitively expensive to most people.

So for many years I took the cheaper option and flew paragliders instead. Those are the self-inflating parawing type things that you throw yourself off the top of mountains with.

I had a great time flying paragliders both around the UK and in Europe and used to compete in competitions. Everything was great until one day I crashed up on a Spanish mountain and fractured 3 vertebra in my back.

I was stuck in a non-english speaking hospital for a week until my insurance company flew a nurse out to stretcher me back home. Fortunately I made a full recovery but it did put paid to my paragliding exploits.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, they changed the rules in the UK that meant a pilot’s license was in my grasp and I was able to qualify in 6 months for a lot less money than usual. I have since gone on to clock up over 400 hours to the end of 2008. I own my own aircraft that I built from a kit with my own two hands.

Believe it or not that’s me in the right hand seat of this classic jet.

I’ve flown that aircraft from John O’Groats to the Scilly Isles (that’s the length of the UK) throughout France, and to Germany, Luxembourg and Italy. The flight

to Italy took me over the French Alps at 10,000 feet – a simply awesome flight – and over Monaco on the way back.

My one big flying goal was to fly a jet aircraft and I finally achieved that when I flew in the right hand seat of a vintage Vampire Jet during a flying display in 2007.

Me diving in Jamaica with a friendly local sea cucumber.

Back in the early eighties I learned to scuba dive, which was something I really loved to do but never kept it up beyond a year or two when my circumstances changed. Some years ago my wife Janet expressed an interest so we went to dive school together and have since dived in some fabulous places around the world including UK, Spain, Portugal, Tenerife, Egypt, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Maldives.

We generally try to get at least one week’s diving in every year. I’m quite into underwater photography and recently got a video housing so have started making underwater movies as well.

My most recent excursion has been into the world of motor racing and it has been the most thrilling of my experiences. I thought flying my own small aircraft over the Alps was the ultimate high, but the adrenalin rush I get from driving a race car is hard to beat.

I got into racing after driving my road car on several racing circuits just for the buzz. I went on a one day track driving course to learn more and was encouraged

Racing at Snetterton my 3rd race meeting.

by my instructor to go racing. I qualified for my racing driver’s license in mid-2008 and have been competing in a one model race series for Toyota MR2 sports cars ever since.

I remember saying to my wife on my 40th birthday – we celebrated in the restaurant atop the twin towers 7 months before the attack – that if the next 40 years were going to be anything like the first 40 then life was going to be an absolute buzz.

So far I haven’t been disappointed.

Be successful.