We have been instructing at Wycombe Air Park since 2004 and have completed many students from ab-intio to NPPL licence,most of which remain with us today still flying the aircraft that they learnt on.

Steve Pike Instructor/Examiner, & Club Safety Officer.

I have been flying for over thirty years now and instructing for the last ten. Taking someone through the process of learning to fly is a great experience and very rewarding when you see a student making progress and then flying off on their first solo flight is just what we do it for. I started flying on hang gliders and weight shift Microlights and have owned many different types and flown from many locations. My instructing started at Popham flying AX3s and Thrusters. We now use the Eurostar microlight, this is more like a light aircraft with good speed and range and a superb aircraft to teach on. Wycombe Air Park gives us a unique opportunity to mix and fly with light aircraft pilots, this is a very busy airfield and has a demanding air traffic control, all of which makes learning to fly here interesting and demanding but does however produce pilots of good standard.

This You Tube clip shows how I got started.

Steve

Instruction

Meet our friendly instructors

Nick Morrison Assistant flying Instructor & Deputy Safety Officer.

My first flight in a light aircraft was way back in 1981. It was a trial flight for the start of a PPLA course. Even then like now,  group A light aircraft were expensive and my flying due to cost was limited. For many years I did not fly at all until I discovered microlights and the Eurostar.

The Eurostar is a new breed of affordable high performance, all aluminium construction microlight. It weighs ¼ ton and has an 80 horsepower engine which equates to 320 horse power per ton! The Eurostar really is a sporty little aircraft

After gaining my NPPL licence and a further 200 hours of pilot in command flying all over the UK and France I took the Instructors rating and now instruct at Wycombe at the LSFC.

Peter Newman Assistant flying Instructor

Peter has a PPL A licence and as well as instructing with us on microlight's at Wycombe he also helps the gliding club as tug pilot launching gliders into the buckinghamshire airspace. Peter also takes to the air without an engine in gliders.