The Kapiti Aero Club is located at the Kapiti Coast Airport (approximately 50km north of Wellington) and is the ideal place for anyone wishing to fly recreationally or who must balance their flight training with home and work commitments
The club offers a diverse range of aircraft which allows it to offer both basic and advanced flight training up to and including multi-engine and multi-engine IFR training.
Trial and aerobatic flights are a speciality and are a popular birthday or Christmas gift.
Kapiti Coast Airport has superb weather, sealed and grass runways and is in close proximity to a variety of training areas. The discipline of flying in Wellington’s controlled airspace can be experienced within a few minutes of departing Paraparaumu.
The Kapiti Air Academy offers internationally recognised professional flight training, from ab-initio, to a Commercial Pilots Licence, and onwards to a NZ Diploma in Aviation, specialising in General Aviation, Airline Preparation or Flight Instruction.
The Kapiti Air Academy is committed to providing practical and theoretical aviation education in fixed wing aircraft, at a level to meet NZ and International Civil Aviation pilot licensing requirements. KAA aims to be the premier Aviation Academy in the southern part of the North Island of New Zealand, offering its students the highest standard of training.
From commercial considerations to crew and passenger demands, or weather and air traffic disruptions, they need to be able to have the ability to manage all of these issues in addition to demonstrating highly developed flying skills and possessing an in-depth knowledge of aircraft systems and dynamics, as well as aviation law.
As part of my role as the Academy Manager and Flight Instructor of the Kapiti Air Academy, I was asked to revamp the current Aero Club website.
To say the website was in need of a serious upgrade would be to say the least. It was very outdated and needed some urgent attention.
Being that the club comprises of two main divisions, it made sense to create two seperate websites, however linked together.
The Aero Club site was built for club members and recreational pilots in mind. The Academy site was built to promote the professional pilot training programmes offered to the domestic and international markets.
Both sites are similar in look and feel but different in content, and are able to be cycled from one to the other with the appearance they are one in the same.
They are still both in on-going development as part of my role with the academy.
