Category: General

Goodwood Aerodrome 15th February 2013. On Saturday 15th February we started our Helicopter Pleasure Flying season off with a full day’s schedule. Some 130 passengers flew with us on the day undertaking a range of different scenic tour flight options ranging from 10 minutes to 30 minutes in duration. One of our first passengers was [...]

My name is Jill Dudley and I am the latest recruit at Elite Helicopters. I joined on 1st December 2012 as the Saturday receptionist and love my new job. I had a fairly quiet start as the weather conditions were dreadful and on a couple of Saturdays the airfield was closed due to water logging. [...]

Finding something memorable to mark a special occasion or to say “Thank You” to someone special in your life is often a challenge. A gift which is a little out of the ordinary will go a long way to show your appreciation – and will be much appreciated! Our new online shop now has a [...]

Our new helicopter experience website has been launched this week, replacing the shop which was currently part of this website. With such success over the last year, we felt it was right to make an independent website that could offer so much more. In addition to specific helicopter experiences, we also offer monetary gift vouchers [...]

We are delighted to have completed Stage 7 of our Office Renovation Programme. Those of you who can remember Hangar 3 in the early days, when we first arrived at Goodwood, will appreciate what a mammoth task this has been. The furniture for our Meeting / Conference Room arrived yesterday and the room and its [...]

Our Operations Manager, Aileen McGovern, has been hard at work training to achieve something unique – the first all-woman crew to row across the English Channel in a gig. Three boats from the local Langstone Cutters rowing club battled against poor weather and mountainous seas whilst dodging cross-Channel ferries and container ships. Aileen’s crew made [...]

Elite Helicopters were delighted to be the first helicopter operator in the UK to be offered the chance to view the brand new French-built Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter. The aircraft flew to Goodwood to allow a large group of our instructors, students and self-fly hire customers to take a close look at the helicopter. The [...]

Flexibility is a key word in the helicopter industry and this is terminology that, we at Elite Helicopters, have been using for years. It not only applies to our charter clientele, office staffing arrangements and pilot rostering, but also very importantly, flexibility is a key word within our Flight Training Organisation. We give you access [...]

Christmas is well and truly over, and the first week of January was one of the windiest anyone can remember. The Control Tower at Goodwood recorded windspeeds in excess of 75 knots – certainly not helicopter flying weather. Now we are well in to January, and summer seems to have arrived early. With blue skies [...]

With just a month to go before the big day, it is time to start thinking seriously about what to buy your nearest and dearest for Christmas. Will it be chocolate, deodorant and socks like last year? Or would you rather buy something that will be appreciated, remembered and talked about for some time to [...]