Skyfox Flight Training opened it's flying school for business back in 1989 with one Skyfox training aircraft and two Flying Instructors. Since then it has trained in excess of 500 pilots to fly, whilst the fleet of aircraft has increased to four, and the staff has grown to a total of seven. We now offer a choice of different types of aircraft to learn on, each with it's own unique qualities and performance characteristics.

STAFF (left to Right)
John McBryde, Jill King (kneeling), Richard Holberton, Paulette Hay, Brett Leathley (kneeling), John Potter, John Hausler

The Flying School operates out of the Caloundra Airstrip on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, 7 days a week, 364 days a year and encourages a friendly, personal and informal atmosphere. In fact most of our students and pilots view the School more as a Flying Club and drop by whenever they feel like it to fly, gossip, or just pass the time. We are also very involved in a variety of very interesting extra curricular activities.

Is the sport as unsafe as most people think?

Definitely not!...and contrary to popular but uninformed belief Ultralight flying is now a very safe and enjoyable pass-time. Unfortunately back in the beginnings the sport acquired a somewhat bad reputation for it's safety factor. This came about mainly because back in its youth, the sport was new and almost totally unregulated. Pilots injured themselves carrying stupid and now totally illegal actions.
Another thing which did not help back then, was the total ban on Ultralight aircraft fitted with two seats. If anyone wanted to fly Ultralights in those days they usually built their own aircraft and taught themselves to fly it - with all the accompanying dire consequences.
Happily this has all now changed; the sport has evolved into a very regulated and safe industry which fortunately has managed to retain many of the freedoms from costs and bureaucracy that its big General Aviation brother continues to suffer from.
Licenced Ultralight Flying Schools are now a fact of life, as are two seater training aircraft, and qualified Ultralight Flying Instructors.