Sports Flying Academy

The Sports Flying Academy is a flight training organisation dedicated to providing recreational microlight training to a level that equals general aviation flight training. We are a not for profit, privately owned organisation based at the Onerahi airport in Whangarei. All our staff are volunteers and this means we can keep the cost of flying our aircraft as low as possible.

Our Tecnam Sierra P2002 is offered at the incredible price of just $135.00 Including GST. per hour. As we are not a club, we do not charge membership fees and this makes your flying even more cost effective.

It has become apparent that many New Zealand microlight flying organisations appear to lack the skills, knowledge, safety programs and procedures that are normally found by default in general aviation organisations. Microlight aircrafts today are sophisticated, fast modern flying machines often capable of higher performance than you average Cessna or Piper type aircraft.

It is imperative that the training you receive is at a level that allows the safe operation of these type of aircraft. The founders of the Sports Flying Academy recognized this often poor quality of microlight flight training and decided to change this by putting their money where their mouths are.

And so the Sport flying Academy was born. You can rest assured that when you fly with us you will be flying in a safe, modern, well maintained aircraft. Our aircraft is maintained meticulously by a professional Licenced Aeronautical Maintenance Engineer. (L.A.M.E.)

Your instructor will be a well trained general aviation pilot and you will follow the New Zealand Private Pilots syllabus. We also have a robust safety system in place that we expect all our pilots to embrace.