Welcome to Phoenix Helicopter Academy

Helicopter flying lessons just got interesting!

Phoenix Helicopter Academy is a new and enthusiastic helicopter training school and helicopter operator located at the popular and charismatic Goodwood Aerodrome, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.   It is the ideal location to learn to fly helicopters and at Phoenix we are here to help with all your needs from helicopter flying lessons, gift experiences, pilot training, pleasure flights and helicopter charter.

Although we are a relatively new helicopter flying school our instructors are not and our entire philosophy is aimed at helicopter pilot training.  The company is owned and run by instructors and pilots who will go out of their way to fulfil your needs and make your helicopter flying lessons and training the unrushed, enjoyable and rewarding experience they should be so whether you are learning to fly for your pleasure and gaining your Private Pilots Licence Helicopter (PPL H) or the start of a new career to become a Commercial Helicopter Pilot  (CPL H) we are here to help. 

We are ideally located on the centre of the south coast within an hour’s drive of Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Haslemere and only an hour and a half from London. We are proud to offer the highest standards of training tailored to your individual requirements with friendly, highly qualified staff, who are passionate about Helicopters.

Goodwood is the perfect environment for learning to fly helicopters.  It hosts two of the largest helicopter events in the UK being the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival.  It is very helicopter friendly with large hover training areas.  Goodwood itself is located in uncontrolled airspace and this frees up the lesson time to the maximum.  We tend to do most of our training either along the beautiful Sussex South Downs, or along the equally spectacular Hampshire and West Sussex coast line with Bournemouth or Brighton within easy flying reach.

On our Gift Lesson page you will find the perfect gift for those interested in the ultimate adventure of a helicopter flying lesson.  At Phoenix we offer a range of helicopter trial lesson gift experiences starting from just £100.  Each experience is a full lesson enabling you to have a full one to one experience with an instructor and also the chance to take the controls along the beautiful West Sussex coast line or discover the South Downs from the air and as we are at Goodwood it makes it ideal for making your experience a full day out.

We can also cater for all your Helicopter Charter needs from bespoke helicopter charter for business, that special occasion or as a gift with pleasure flights available from several locations to cover Goodwood, Brighton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and London.  These can be very cost effective and sold as a single seat voucher.  A full list and prices are available from our Event List PDF on our charter page.  

We also cater for many major events with Helicopter Charter shuttle flights to Silverstone F1 Grand Prix, Goodwood Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival as well as all the major sporting events.  At these events we offer a shuttle service.  For Goodwood we offer a shuttle from Shoreham Airport, Bournemouth Airport, Lee on Solent and Red Hill with standard prices per seat.  We can also arrange special charters from other locations on request.  For Silverstone we can offer shuttles from several locations around the site with prices starting from just £399 plus VAT.  Further detail is available on our charter page.

Take a few minutes to look through our site and you will begin to get a feel for the different way we approach your training and lessons.  On the Training Page you can open our eBooks where you will find full details of our PPL H and CPL H courses and by looking on our student page you will find helicopter lesson plan downloads, weather information and other downloads to help you with your training.  If we can help with anything then don’t hesitate to contact us.