Kapiti Air Academy

[Matt Dyer]

Hey all.

I am just wondering your feelings on this Air Academy, based on the Kapiti Coast. I am moving to wlg next year 2008 to start my training to become a pilot.

http://www.kapitiaeroclub.co.nz/

I am wondering has anyone heard bad or good things from this place?

Comments welcome!

Matt

[flynz]

I know of one person that attained his ppl there and he didnt say anything bad about it. I know of another person who left there and went to wellington aero club because it was too far for him to get to kapiti and accepted that he would have to pay more.

[A185F]

Ok I don't want to be negative or anything but I would say stay as far away from there as you can. I do know a couple of people who trained there and they regret it bigtime. Do your homework. PPrune is a good place to start.

This is worth a read.

[mailman]

Kapiti Aero Club is fine, they have been in business for a while so you know they are pretty solid.

Also, you could dig up several people who think any club is cr@p if you dig enough.

flynz, I reckon your mate wasted his time flying out of Wellington airport. He would have been much better to learn at NZPP simply because he cant land at Wellington like he can at any other uncontrolled airport, not to mention the fact you have to fit yourself around commercial traffic!

Mailman

[chopper_nut]

I disagree, Im doing my flight training at WN and while its busy, you really learn to think and act fast when you have an A320 bearing down on you! After doing 40 hours around WLG, I flew over to Omaka to do some x country and it was a comparative breeze in terms of not having to be so concerned about traffic. I think every aistrip has its good and bad points, the only thing with WN is that it doesnt have a grass vector to do short field on. I have heard good and bad things about Kapiti, the bad things were actually about the instructors.