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Light Sport Flying School & Club

A microlight training organisation based at Wycombe Air Park (Booker) near High Wycombe, Bucks.

We offer full NPPL training to your microlight licence, with training options to suit all levels. The minimum requirement for the NPPL licence is just 25 hours, training at LSF is designed to be a fun experience, one which will make you a good, safe pilot and give you many years of fun, flying throughout the UK and Europe.

Our club offers you the chance to fly and socialise with like minded pilots. Come in and have a chat and see what we can offer.

We include all your ground schooling, from Air Law to Navigation and radio telephony, making the learning process enjoyable and interesting and helping you through the simple exams.

The training syllabus is split up into seven phases with eighteen exercises, a well tested method of taking you safely through the course. The best place to start is by taking a trial flight ,this will give you a good idea of exactly what it’s like to handle the controls and see what you and the aircraft can do. You can contact us direct to book a trial flight or if you would like a voucher please go to Flights4all to book either a 30 min or 60 min trial flight.

There are two types of microlight, weight shift and 3 axis. Both types are very capable and are extremely good fun to...

...fly, however we use the 3 axis type at Wycombe (as shown) as these generally fit better with the light aircraft that fly from Wycombe. This is the very popular Eurostar EV97 made in the Czech Republic and assembled in the the UK by Cosmik Aviation near Banbury. The Eurostar is a two seat, side by side, with full dual controls, the cabin is well ventilated and heated for winter flying, the visibility from the cockpit is second to none. The typical cruising speed of the Eurostar is 100 mph but it has an exceptional range from a slow and docile stall at around 40 mph to a Vne (never exceed) speed of 146 Mph.

Microlights are extremely safe and fun to fly, like anything in life there are risks, the name microlight however still seems to conjure up an image of a very basic aeroplane and there is still much misunderstanding of what a microlight really is, I will try and explain a little here but please come and see us and I can show just what a modern microlight is actually like.

Things got started in the mid 70’s when a few pioneers started strapping engines to their hang glider wings, there were little regulations then and indeed there were some unfortunate incidents, this is when Microlighting got a bad reputation. However as the British Microlight Aircraft Association became involved and pilots had to hold a PPL to fly, plus take exams and prove competence things became a lot safer, and now with an engineering standard Section S our aircraft are extremely safe.

The legal definition of a microlight
Modern Microlights essentially fall into two categories. The weightshift or flexwing type of aircraft has a trike unit suspended under a wing evolved from the hang glider. Control is by using the control bar to shift the weight of the trike relative to the wing. The 3-axis type of microlight on the other hand looks like, and some cases will outperform a traditional light aircraft. Some are fabric covered and others have an all metal skin.

Both are covered by the basic definition:

Microlight aeroplane means an aeroplane designed to carry not more than two persons which has:

(a) a maximum total weight authorised not exceeding:

• 300kg for a single seat landplane
• 450kg for a two seat landplane
• 330kg for a single seat amphibian or floatplane, or
• 495kg for a two seat amphibian or floatplane  

  and

(b) either a wing loading at the maximum weight authorised not exceeding 25kg per square metre
or a stalling speed at the maximum weight authorised not exceeding 35 knots calibrated airspeed"  

So come and see at Wycombe and discuss the options!