Trial Flights & Flying Lessons

I'm sure though, you'll appreciate that trying to describe the exhilaration of an actual flight is like trying to describe a piece of music to someone who has never heard music before ..... virtually impossible. So, really, you do have to come and sample the delights of this wonderful activity personally ..... you HAVE to go FLYING.

When you do, we promise you that you'll be transported into a totally unique dimension. It really is mind-blowing yet very safe and you'll experience a treat that has no equal anywhere.

The following famous poem written in 1941 by a young Royal Canadian Airforce pilot John Gilespee Magee is the nearest we can come to describing this truly wonderful feeling ........

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft thro' footless halls of air.

Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew -
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Whether you come with us on a 20 minute, 40 minute or 60 minute flight you will experience the all true majesty expressed in this lovely poem ...... AND THAT'S A PROMISE.

• Operation SKYLARK (20 minutes) £50
  A sensational and mind-blowing experience where you'll be taken into another world by an experienced and friendly instructor. This twenty-minute flight is designed to give you a brief introduction to the world of those who love and live to fly. During the flight, with your instructor's help, you'll be able to take the controls and fly the aeroplane yourself and this is an ideal way to see if the sport of microlight flying is for you.
  
  
• Operation KINGFISHER (40 minutes) £92
  A forty-minute version of the above programme for those who would like a bit more time in the air. On all these flights, if the conditions are suitable and you so wish, you'll be able to participate in both the takeoff and the landing phases as well as controlling the aeroplane during the rest of the flight.
  
  
• Operation PHOENIX (60 minutes) £125
  A sixty-minute flight where you'll be shown some of the more advanced techniques of flying the aeroplane, in fact you'll be flying the aeroplane yourself most of the time if that's what you want and this flight is long enough for us to sometimes land out at another site if conditions are suitable.

Some people of course just prefer to enjoy the experience and let the instructor do all the flying, and this is fine if it's what you'd prefer, but either way you WILL experience a brief period of pure magic that will long remain a treasured memory. And who knows, it may even fire your enthusiasm to want to learn to fly yourself.

So, we look forward to seeing you soon when we can both share a brief escape to another world .........

........ that truly awesome world of the sky.