Tag: Goodwood

Our final major sporting event of the 2012 season has been and gone – which presented us with a “Hat Trick” as the three major events saw a significant increase in passenger numbers over those of the last 8 years! The British Grand Prix and the Festival of Speed had already given us a vast [...]

We were delighted to host a visit from the Bell 407GX which came to Goodwood specifically to offer demonstration flights to our pilots, clients and guests. The aircraft certainly looks like a Bell, and you would be forgiven for thinking that it is a new Long Ranger. But it is so much more! The aircraft [...]

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 [...]

You could be forgiven for thinking that we at Elite Helicopters are looking forward to a few months of hibernation now that our busy summer flying season is drawing to a close. Nothing could be further from the truth. Firstly, this winter does not look as if it will be quiet at all. With our [...]

We are delighted to announce the arrival of the latest addition to our fleet of training aircraft at Goodwood. G-DOGI is a Robinson R22 Beta and now has joined us to support our Private and Commercial Pilot’s Licence training programmes.

Our students, clients, instructors and admin staff were invited to view the new Guimbal Cabri G2 2-seat helicopter at Helitech this week, and everybody was supremely impressed with this wonderful new aircraft. So much so, that we have arranged with the UK distributor to bring the Cabri to Goodwood in the very near future, where [...]

This week we welcomed the arrival of another Robinson R22 to the Elite Helicopters training school. G-WIZY is a fully-equipped Beta model with VOR Receiver and Night Kit, and the colour scheme is a perfect compliment to G-LYNC our R22 Beta II. G-WIZY made an epic journey from its previous home in Enniskillen via Newtownards [...]

This year’s Goodwood Revival is over for another season, and what a weekend it was! Over 120,000 people visited Goodwood over three days, and were treated to a spectacle of vintage car racing; authentic Spitfire air displays along with a selection of static aircraft, including a Brantley helicopter and a Flying Fortress bomber; a vintage [...]

People come to Elite Helicopters to learn to fly for all kinds of different reasons. It may be something they have always wanted to do, it may be a personal challenge, or they may want to use a helicopter for transport for private or business reasons. It may even be that they want a career [...]