Helicopter Training Location

Astral Helicopters operates its helicopter training from Rotorua Airport, in the centre of New Zealand's beautiful North Island. Rotorua is just three hours drive from Auckland, and marks the gateway to the bush and mountains of the central plateau, where we do much of our advanced helicopter flight training. Remote bush operations and mountain flying are a big part of the helicopter industry and well spend a lot of time here training and exploring this fantastic area, starting just two minutes flight time away.

New Zealand is ranked as one of the top 10 safest countries in the world!

New Zealand is one of the top 10
cleanest countries in the world!

We have 3 National Parks and thousands of acres of private land within our training range and the 9000 ft peak of Mt Ruapehu for our high level alpine flying. Our aircraft are GPS and cell phone equipped for safety, and we will sometimes stop at a lake or mountain hut for lunch during our helicopter training...

Rotorua Airport is one of the country's busiest, with numerous prop and jet aircraft movements every day. We have our own circuit pattern and training area out of the way, but as the training progresses the students are introduced to a busy airfield environment. Rotorua Airport operates NDB and VOR/DME navigation aids for our future helicopter instrument training.
Rotorua is the tourism capital of the North Island and has been a popular spa destination for the past 160 years for explorers of this thermal wonderland.

When we are not helicopter training we will either be fishing the crystal waters of the nearby lakes, mountain biking the World Championship bike tracks, skiing a volcano, hunting, golfing or just soaking in one of the numerous thermal mineral pools in the town. Or we might just fly to one of the hidden hot streams in the bush.

For more attractions in the Rotorua area click here

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