Helicopter Training School

Click here for Licence Proficiency Checks (LPC) & type ratings

Coming on a pleasure flight, scenic flight or customised charter with us is a truly amazing experience. There is nothing like experiencing the freedom that can only be gained from a helicopter; whether that be from simply experiencing the flying; viewing familiar landmarks from a different perspective; or travelling to, and landing at, a specific location. However, if you wish to take this experience one stage further, you may wish to have a go at actually flying for yourself! This could be a simple trial lesson experience, a series of instructional flights or even gaining a licence of your own.

Learning to fly and attaining your own licence can be a challenging but very rewarding experience and will enable you to hire aircraft and fly yourself and your friends and family to visit hotels, restaurants, friends, race days or important meetings; and all the time whilst missing out the traffic!

A Private Pilot Licence (PPL) requires a minimum of 45 hours of flying and also involves a medical and 7 written exams. Cost depends upon exactly how much flying training you require but is normally in the region of £20,000 however, this is spread over as much time as suits your needs.

All Helivation pilots started their flying with a PPL but then went on to gain a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL). This requires a minimum of 185 hours of flying, another 6 exams and a more advanced medical. Costs for the CPL can vary drastically as there are so many different ways of achieving the licence in different machines and countries but very approximately comes to around £65,000 and usually takes between 1 and 2 years.

Training, Type Rating, LPC, advanced instruction etc

If you are interested in learning to fly or would like to take a trial lesson flight then please give us a call. We can help you right through from the initial flight to being a fully qualified pilot with training available on the very popular Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters as well as type ratings for Hughes 300, 500 and 600; Bell Jetranger and Bell Longranger.

Our highly experienced instructors/examiners can also provide PPL assessments, PPL Flight Handling Tests (FHT), Licence Proficiency Checks (LPC), night instruction, instrument flying appreciation, ground instruction and examination and type ratings; all valid for the aircraft types mentioned above.

For more information on any of our training, please contact us or give us a call.