For recreational private hire and training, we have 2-seater modern light sport aircraft (under 10 years old). They are maintained to the highest standards by Aircraft Maintenance Specialists right next door to us, so this will provide you with confidence when flying with us or renting one of our aircraft. And because we give Mark, Tony, Glen and the team, a few slabs of beer for Christmas, throughout the rest of the year they will fix quickly fiddly little things for us, like flat tyres and loose wires, which certainly makes it easier to operate a 7-day per week flight school.
There are no Club fees or landing fees. No medical or ASIC card is required for flying locally at Caloundra. We do not offer 4-seater GA aircraft. Our Private Hire and cancellation policies can be found at the bottom of this page.
If you did your initial training with us, or you are a converting pilot you will have already received FREE access to the invaluable GoFly Online videos to take you from your RPC through Cross Country training, Passenger Endorsement and on to your RPL/PPL and RAAus Instructor Rating. You will automatically have been sent the Private Hire workbook to do ahead of doing the Private Hire Exam.
If you have an overseas licence, you may not be able to hire our aircraft. Contact us by email and provide any supporting documents. If you have your Australian PRC & passenger endorsement but did not do your training with us and you wish to hire our Slings, you will need to undergo at least 4 hours of familiarisation training in our aircraft and at our aerodrome, plus do an open book Private Hire exam, before you are signed off to hire our Slings. You can find a diagram of the circuit pattern half way down this page. To assist with your Sling checkout flights, here is some info about the Sling aircraft:
You can find over 150 free useful training related videos on our flight training platform at www.gofly.online
When private hiring, bring sunglasses, a cap, log book and a water bottle. We can provide sunscreen and Dave Clark headsets for you and 1 passenger. Once checked out, you will be able to private hire on 7 days of the week. Our start times are 7.30, 9.30. 11.30, 1.30 (and 3.30 if an instructor is staying back that late with another student). You can take Sling 1675 or Sling 8515. You cannot land anywhere without prior approval. You cannot take a plane at 11.30 or 1.30pm on a weekend when we have 4 instructors rostered – unless there are no other dual bookings at that time by 5pm the night before.
We use Pilot Base software for bookings and we will send you an invitation to access it. You can create a username and password and then book future flights using Pilot Base or you can call the office or email us.
PRIVATE HIRE WORKBOOK
Please read this Private Hire workbook before taking the Private Hire exam at our office. Only once the successful result has been uploaded to Pilot Base will you be able to make private hire bookings.
A dual circuit check may be required with an Instructor if our regular private hirers have not flown within the preceding 30 days or if conditions warrant a circuit check due to lack of currency in those conditions. Circuit checks and any recurrent training up to 30 minutes’ duration will be charged at the private hire rate. If you have been overseas or have not flown for more than 3 months and require a longer check, the dual rate applies.
If you hire a GoFly Aviation Aircraft, you are agreeing to the following conditions (and will have signed off on these agreements in your Private Hire workbook and exam):
There is no penalty for cancellation of private hire. We will also try to give you as much notice as possible of strong winds or rain, when cancelling your private hire. You can also log on to the weather cams here before you set off.