The type of experience flight you want will depend on one of two factors:
Do you perhaps want to learn to fly or commence on a course of training, or
Is the flight going to be a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience
If it is going to be the beginning of your pilot training, together we will fly the ‘Exercise 1 – Air Experience’ from the new NPPL syllabus. This is great fun, and you will get the chance to try out the controls for yourself. It will be more of a ‘technical’ flight in preparation for you taking the pilots seat on your next lesson.
If it is to be a one-off flight experience, we will still conduct a training flight. However, we can discuss with you what you would like do, such as fly over the area where you live or other usually familiar places that won’t look familiar from the air. We can also fly over local landscape features and beauty spots, such as Clee Hill or the Welsh hills. Of course, you’ll still get the opportunity to try out the controls for yourself if you want to – and if you change your mind and decide you want to learn to fly, the time spent on the experience flight will still go towards your total training time.
In either case, we will take photographs of your with your chosen aircraft, and also during the flight where possible. These will posted on our Facebook page and you will be given a card showing our Facebook pag name (or use the link on the website) – all we ask is that ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ the moment among your friends.
You can also take your own camera with you. In the flexwing, this can be only allowed (for safety reasons) if the camera has a wrist lanyard – the camera MUST stay attached to you during the whole flight. Also, if flying in the flexwing, we will provide a warm flying suit, helmet and gloves, together with a headset so that you can chat with your instructor / pilot. However if can get a bit draughty around the ankles if you wear normal shoes or trainers, so boots are a good idea.
We are well experienced in giving our potential pilots and passengers a thoroughly thrilling time during their first foray into the air – and even seasoned flyers can get a completely new experience by trying a flight in a different sort of aircraft, such as a flexwing, often called the ‘motorcycle of the sky’.