Learning how to fly is an expensive business, and you'll spend a lot of time as well as money on the process.  It's important to make the right choice of school, so he're we'll lay out our stall and let you decide if The Gyrocopter Experience Salisbury is the place for you.

 

We are a member of The Gyrocopter Experience national network of flying schools.  The Gyrocopter Experience website provides you with online access to your training records which can be shared witrh any other Gyrocopter Experience school.

For most people flying gyros is a leisure activity, so learning how to fly should be enjoyable!  Like most activities the pleasure is partly in the "doing" and partly in the camerarderie, socialising and "tall tales" afterwards.  One of our reasons for choosing Old Sarum as our base is that it's one of the friendliest airfields there is, with a fantastic supportive community that it's a pleasure to be part of.  That doesn't mean we just goof around though - the facilities here mean that you can make the most of your time, but you can still wind down after an intensive hour in the air.

Steve Boxall, CFI at The Gyrocopter Experience Salisbury, has held a pilot's licence for over 23 years, and has been a qualified Instructor for 20 of them.  After building and learning to fly his own single-seat gyro, Steve bought the first customer MT-03 gyroplane in the UK "way back" in August 2006, and Gyro Training became the first UK school using the MT-03.   His motto is "the first few hundred times are the worst, then you get used to it"!

If the mantra in property is "location, location, location", then in flight training it's "airfield, airfield, airfield".  Most gyro schools operate from "unlicenced" strips -  which can often mean short runways and  limited facilities (do you really want to survive for a week on a diet of Pot Noodle and Mars Bars?) and tricky approaches which can mean trouble if the engine stops at the wrong moment.

 

Old Sarum Aerodrome is a licenced airfield, which means that its runways and their approaches meet strict criteria laid down by the CAA.  We have great countryside to fly over, and excellent facilities including a Cafe and bar, club lounge, maintenance facilities, hangarage, and a pilot shop selling books, charts etc.

When "Light Aviation" magazine wanted to run a piece on gyros they approached our CFI Steve Boxall.  The photo shoot was hoot, and the results were fantastic!

 

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