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What's Included
- Trial flying lesson in an Ikarus C42 'microlight' class aircraft
- Welcome, introduction and safety briefing
- Experience what it's like to pilot a light aircraft
- Tuition from a qualified flying instructor
- Personalised flight certificate
- Trial flying lessons count towards your flying hours should you go on to learn to fly
30 Minute Flight
- Portsmouth Harbour and the Spinnaker Tower
60 Minute Flight
- View the Needles and fly around the Isle of Wight
Landaway Flight
- Two 55-60 minute flights
- Land at a different airfield for a short break before returning to Lower Upham for the ultimate flight experience
What Can I Expect
Flying lessons from Southampton's Lower Upham Airfield in light sports aircraft! We are offering vouchers for 30 and 60-minute lessons, as well as a fun landaway experience where you land at another airport and then fly back.
A warm welcome awaits at Lower Upham airfield from pilots and members alike when you arrive for your flying lessons. It's a small private General Aviation aerodrome adjacent to the village of the same name, just north east of Southampton and Eastleigh, so within minutes you'll be flying over the Solent and out towards the English Channel.
All flights are in modern light sport aircraft, namely the Ikarus C42. This renowned and much-loved high-wing aircraft is fully enclosed and boasts superb range, performance and stable handling too. Among the classic aircraft and helicopters hangared at Lower Upham, the Ikarus is a firm favourite, especially as it's so agile and quiet.
If you're on the 30 minute lesson, your flight path will head along the Solent and over Portsmouth, taking in the Spinnaker Tower at Gunwarf Quays and HMNB Portsmouth, which is the Royal Navy's largest dockyard. When you spend 60 minutes in the Ikarus, your flight will take you over the chalk stack Needles that look simply stunning from the high-level cockpit view. And you might circle around the Isle of Wight too.
On a landaway experience, you have your outward flight, a landing at another local airfield, time for cuppa and chat, another take off and the return flight back to base at Lower Upham Airfield.
Whichever flying lesson duration you choose, its superb scenery and top notch tuition all the way on these light sports flying lessons over Southampton from lovely Lower Upham!
When Is It Available
- Selected weekdays and weekends throughout the year excluding Mondays
- All flights are subject to availability and weather conditions
Location
- Lower Upham Airfield, Bishops Waltham, near Southampton in Hampshire
Suitable For
- Minimum age 12
- Under 18s must be accompanied on site by an adult
- Maximum height 6'4"
- Generally the maximum weight is 14 stone, should you be close to this limit please contact Into the Blue for further information
Spectators
- Spectators are welcome to come along and watch the action
Reviews
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