Packaging Options
All orders are sent in plain packaging so as not to ruin the surprise.
Premium Gift Pack
Our Premium Gift Pack includes a stylish gift box, which holds your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet. The premium choice.
£3.50 (+ £3.95 shipping charge)
Standard Gift Pack
Our Standard Gift Pack comes with a smart envelope that includes your personalised gift voucher and your activity voucher guide booklet.
Included in the £3.95 shipping charge
E Voucher
Our E Voucher is an instant voucher delivered by email, with your personalised email message and a downloadable .pdf of your personalised gift voucher.
FREE
What's Included
- 12-mile flight in an executive helicopter
- Guaranteed co-pilot seat next to the pilot
- Flights last approx 8 minutes
- View local landmarks from a birds eye view
- Flights are generally taken in a Bell Jet Ranger (4 seater) helicopter, bell Long Ranger ( 6 seater) helicopters are occasionally used
- Aviation themed souvenir keyring
- £5 token to spend on beer at Wetherspoons
- Safety briefing and insurance
- Pilot's commentary via headset
- Opportunity to take photos and video
- Choice of over 50 locations
- You will form part of a group of between 4-6 people depending on the location
- Please allow one to one and a half hours on site
Co-Pilot + Guest
- Invite a guest to join as a passenger in the rear of the helicopter
- Your guest will have a window-seat behind the co-pilot seat
What Can I Expect
Our co-pilot helicopter adventure offer is EXCLUSIVE to Into The Blue! The perfect experience gift for Father’s Day, you’ll be giving Dad the best seat in the chopper for these flights available at over 50 helipads around the country.
Sitting up front right next to the pilot is what this experience is all about. You’re in prime position to watch what being a helicopter pilot involves, from engine start up and getting clearance to take off, to landing gently back on the ground.
You’ll also witness the fine art that is hovering. It’s all about control and coordination and it’s pretty amazing to observe how it’s done from that co-pilot seat up front in the helicopter.
And as co-pilot, you get the best viewpoint. From this top-notch vantage point, the glass cockpit offers an unbeatable 180-degree view of the local landscape.
Your 12-mile journey takes you to altitudes of around 1000ft, turning the world below into a living map of miniature houses and winding roads. With the pilot's commentary through the headset, you'll learn about the local landmarks and how these agile machines are handled.
As a lasting memento of your co-pilot experience, you will also receive a special aviation-themed keyring and the celebrations continue back on the ground with a £5 Wetherspoons beer token to enjoy a well-earned, post-flight drink.
Our special tip : buy the voucher for the ‘Co-pilot helicopter adventure experience with guest’ and one lucky person will be able to ride in the chopper with you, sitting behind the co-pilot seat!
When Is It Available
- Typically flights take place at least one weekend day per month, with occasional weekdays from April to October
- Dates and flight times are subject to availability at your chosen venue and weather conditions
Location
Current locations (subject to change and updated regularly)
England
- Cambridgeshire Bottisham Airfield Museum
- Cornwall (St Ives) Churchtown Farm
- Cornwall Scorrier House
- Cornwall Land's End Airport
- Cornwall Perranporth Airfield (summer event only)
- Cumbria Kirkbride Airfield
- Derbyshire Moor Grange Farm
- Derbyshire Owler Bar
- Derbyshire Windy Harbour Farm Hotel
- Devon Dunkeswell Aerodrome
- Durham Teeside International Airport
- East Riding Of Yorkshire Beverley (Linley Hill) Airfield
- Essex London Southend Airport
- Essex Redcroft Fields
- Gloucestershire Cotswold Airport
- Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Airport
- Hampshire Thruxton Airport
- Herefordshire Hungry Hill Farm Airstrip
- Isle of Wight Sandown Airport
- Kent Stoke Airstrip
- Kingross-shire Balado Airfield
- Lanarkshire Cumbernauld Airport
- Lancashire Blackpool Airport
- Lancashire Greenlands Farm Village
- Merseyside Liverpool Helipad
- Manchester Manchester City Airport Greater
- Nottinghamshire Nottingham Heliport
- Northampton Turweston Aerodrome
- Northumberland Charlton Hall Estate
- Northumberland Eshott Airfield
- North Yorkshire Elvington Airfield
- North Yorkshire The Courtyard (Settle)
- Oxfordshire Oxford Helipad
- Shropshire Sleap Aerodrome
- Somerset Glastonbury Events
- Somerset Henstridge Airfield
- Somerset The Bath & West Showground
- Surrey Blackbushe Airport Camberley
- Surrey Fairoaks Airport
- Surrey Redhill
- Tyne & Wear Newcastle International Airport
- Warwickshire Hilltop Farm, Leamington Spa
- Wiltshire Vowley Farm
- West Midlands Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport
- West Sussex Shoreham By Sea Brighton City Airport
Wales
- Brides Newport The West Usk Lighthouse St,
- Swansea Swansea Airport
- Vale of Glamorgan Cardiff Airport
Scotland
- Ayrshire Langholm Farm
- Lanarkshire Cumbernauld Airport
- Perthshire Perth Airport
- Renfrewshire Bishopton Field (Glasgow)
- Stirlingshire Stirling Helipad
- West Lothian Conifox Nurseries (Edinburgh)
Ireland
- Ardfert Airfield Kerry
- Ballinrobe Racecourse Mayo
- Cork Racecourse Cork
- Donegal Donegal Airport
- Naven Racecourse Meath
- Waterford Airport Killown
Suitable For
- Minimum age: 6 years old
- Under 12s must be accompanied by a participating adult
- Over 12s may fly unaccompanied
- The operator reserves the right to remove any passenger if their behaviour is deemed unsafe or inappropriate
- Maximum height: 6ft 6ins (198cm)
- Maximum weight: 15 stone (95kg)*
*Please see Anything Else section
Spectators
- Spectators are welcome and may take photographs
Anything Else
- Flying activities have maximum weights (per seat) to ensure health and safety along with the comfort of fellow passengers
- You must enter passenger/participant weight at the time of booking an experience. If weight varies between the time of initial booking and date of flight experience it remains the responsibility of the customer to update their individual weight via their online account prior to flight
- All passengers will be weighed before flight and if disparity exists between weight disclosed and actual weight (within reason), the passenger may be eligible to fly
Helicopter Pleasure Flights:
Group size of Two – Max 30 Stone (190kg)
Group size of Three – Max 43 Stone (273kg)
Group size of Four – Max 56 Stone (355kg)
Group size of Five – Max 63 Stone (400kg)
Group size of Six - Max 75 Stone (475kg)
- Please note that the maximum weight limit for the Co Pilot Seat on a helicopter pleasure flight varies depending on aircraft and other operational considerations but will not exceed 95kg
- If as a party of one you weigh in excess of 15 stone, you may still be able to fly however you will need to purchase an additional seat. This seat will either have to remain unoccupied or can be occupied by an individual as long as the combined total as listed above is not exceeded. However, a total individual weight of 21.5 stone cannot be exceeded
- Please note that once your booking is confirmed, the provider's terms and conditions will apply. In the event of postponements due to weather and/or operational issues your flight will be rescheduled
- Vouchers can only be exchanged with Into The Blue after three postponements
