Training

AV8 Helicopters trains local pilots for both private and commercial licenses. We provide operational training to Defence Force helicopter pilots from a number of South Africa's neighbouring countries. The following ICAO flight training courses and ratings are available from AV8 Helicopters:

• Student Pilot Licence
• Private Pilot Licence
• Commercial Pilot Licence
• Airline Transport Pilot Licence
• Ratings:
   • Night Rating
   • Sling Rating
   • Game / Livestock / Cull Rating
   • Instrument Rating
   • Instructors Rating
   • Robinson R44 Conversion
   • Turbine Conversion / Alouette III Conversion / AS350 B2 Conversion
   • Mountain Flying Training
   • Fire Bucket Training

At AV8 Helicopters, we believe that learning to fly should be fun. We try at all times to use training methods that make the course enjoyable.

Our hangars are at East London Airport and a large percentage of the training is completed on the airport grounds. This allows for accelerated progress, because time spent traveling to and from the general flying area is minimal.

Although East London Airport is in controlled airspace and caters for both scheduled and unscheduled traffic, it is not a very busy airport. This is an ideal training environment as it allows the student to learn to fly in controlled airspace with student-friendly air-traffic controllers.