Flying School & Club back at Kilkenny - EIKK

IrishFlying

It is great pleasure to announce that a new Flying School and Club, The Irish Flying Club, will be back at Kilkenny Airport in the very near future.

The Irish Flying Club is conveniently based out of Kilkenny Airfield, Ireland’s largest (930m) privately licensed aerodrome. Kilkenny airfield is easily accessible by Dublin, The Midlands, South East and South West.

The airport is ideally situated from many of Ireland airports such as Waterford, Shannon, Cork, Galway, Weston and many smaller strip are only a short flight away. At the airport we have no ATC restrictions which makes it ideal for flight training, where precious flight time is not wasted on the ground or having a long distance to our training area, making lessons more cost effective.

The Irish Flying Club will be utilising a PA-28. The aircraft is one of the most popular aircraft used for flight training in the world. The aircraft has recently been professionally fully restored with no expense spared on it. The aircraft has new interior, new paint and a new engine. Plans for a second aircraft are under way.

Our aim is to provide a high quality service in a safe and enjoyable atmosphere. We will be welcoming all type of students and pilots. PPL flight instruction, SEP renewals and revalidations, hour builders and general hire for club members. The school will have recently refurbished classrooms, our rates will be very competitively priced and we aim to make PPL flight training more affordable.

The team behind The Irish Flying Club have a real passion for aviation in Ireland. There is a great history of aviation at Kilkenny Airport and the surrounding areas and we want to resurrect that back at the airport. With many years of experience and a variety of general aviation backgrounds the team will succeed. At the airport, especially the weekends, there can be up to 100 people or more at the airport and this creates a special atmosphere and buzz.

We are waiting on final RTF approval but this is due very soon.

For any initial inquires you can send me a PM here. Our website will be launched very soon.

Happy Flying & Blue Skies,

Stephen McDonnell

pepe the prawn

Great news, best of luck with it

andy_g

IrishFlying wrote: »

It is great pleasure to announce that a new Flying School and Club, The Irish Flying Club, will be back at Kilkenny Airport in the very near future.

The Irish Flying Club is conveniently based out of Kilkenny Airfield, Ireland’s largest (930m) privately licensed aerodrome. Kilkenny airfield is easily accessible by Dublin, The Midlands, South East and South West.

The airport is ideally situated from many of Ireland airports such as Waterford, Shannon, Cork, Galway, Weston and many smaller strip are only a short flight away. At the airport we have no ATC restrictions which makes it ideal for flight training, where precious flight time is not wasted on the ground or having a long distance to our training area, making lessons more cost effective.

The Irish Flying Club will be utilising a PA-28. The aircraft is one of the most popular aircraft used for flight training in the world. The aircraft has recently been professionally fully restored with no expense spared on it. The aircraft has new interior, new paint and a new engine. Plans for a second aircraft are under way.

Our aim is to provide a high quality service in a safe and enjoyable atmosphere. We will be welcoming all type of students and pilots. PPL flight instruction, SEP renewals and revalidations, hour builders and general hire for club members. The school will have recently refurbished classrooms, our rates will be very competitively priced and we aim to make PPL flight training more affordable.

The team behind The Irish Flying Club have a real passion for aviation in Ireland. There is a great history of aviation at Kilkenny Airport and the surrounding areas and we want to resurrect that back at the airport. With many years of experience and a variety of general aviation backgrounds the team will succeed. At the airport, especially the weekends, there can be up to 100 people or more at the airport and this creates a special atmosphere and buzz.

We are waiting on final RTF approval but this is due very soon.

For any initial inquires you can send me a PM here. Our website will be launched very soon.

Happy Flying & Blue Skies,

Stephen McDonnell

Great news to the Irish Aviation Community Irishfly but are you connected in anyway with the school? You can pm me if it is easier.
Andy

IrishFlying

andy_g wrote: »

Great news to the Irish Aviation Community Irishfly but are you connected in anyway with the school? You can pm me if it is easier.
Andy

Hi Andy,

Yes I am involved with the school. I have help set it up and I will be one of the flight instructors.

Feel free to pm me if you are interested in anything we might have to offer.

Cheers,

S

logie101

IrishFlying wrote: »

Hi Andy,

Yes I am involved with the school. I have help set it up and I will be one of the flight instructors.

Feel free to pm me if you are interested in anything we might have to offer.

Cheers,

S

Great news.

Any chance of any taildragger instruction/flying back in Killenny? I always thought it was a great field for it.

andy_g

IrishFlying wrote: »

Hi Andy,

Yes I am involved with the school. I have help set it up and I will be one of the flight instructors.

Feel free to pm me if you are interested in anything we might have to offer.

Cheers,

S

Might be down to you at some point in the club. I might suggest though that you contact the office here at boards.ie if you wish to setup a Verified Rep Account.

To do this just drop them a line at Hello@boards.ie and they will help you out.

IrishFlying

More than welcome. Will do that Andy.

No plans to purchase a taildragger as of yet.
The airport is open to aircraft that want to base themselves here. A nice aerobatic tail dragger be nice

yaeger

Fantastic news.
Don't forget to purchase a kettle and bacon sarnies for the weekends ;-)

IrishFlying

Dont worry already taking care of yaeger