The Merseyflight Mission
Our aim
To educate, enable, inspire and motivate our student pilots to achieve their goals in aviation.
Our objectives
Build a team of experienced, career Flight Instructors who can deliver the best pound for pound training available.
Harness technology to facilitate accessibility to knowledge bases and the improvement of skills.
Provide an environment that fosters professionalism, competence and safe practices.
Reduce overall flight training costs to the public whilst maintaining a sustainable business model.
Strive to excel in customer service, enhance our reputation and thrive as a growing company.
Promote a community of like-minded individuals to share experiences and ideas.
Meet the team
Merseyflight’s strength is it’s people. We invest in experienced, career instructors in order to deliver the highest quality, best value flight training. If you want to be a safe, knowledgeable and competent aviator then you’re in the right hands.
Neil Hazelhurst
Flight Instructor
Neil is a highly experienced and extremely well respected instructor with over 8000 hours and 20 years of experience. Neil is well known in the industry and is a career instructor. Works full time for Merseyflight.
Ian Murphy
Flight Instructor / Examiner
Ian is another highly experienced aviator who can teach the PPL, LAPL, IR(R) and Night Rating. Ian is also a Flight Examiner. Works part time, usually on a Saturday and Monday.
Stuart Gibson
Flight Instructor
Ex-RAF pilot Stuart’s day job is Captaining Boeing 737s for and instructs with Merseyflight on a part-time basis. Very popular with students, Stuart is an unrestricted instructor.
Neil Williams
Flight Instructor
Another Neil and another experienced, career instructor. Neil W also has thousands of hours of teaching students to fly in his logbook and is the Chief Flying Instructor at Merseyflight.
Angus Whyte
Flight Examiner
Angus is an experienced Boeing 737 skipper and Merseyfight’s primary flight examiner. Firm but fair, Angus always puts his test candidates at ease. Angus is also a keen seaplane pilot.
Simon Montgomery
Operations Manager
Simon is our Operations Manager and is a Merseyflight stalwart. He has an insatiable apetite for aviation and keeps the operation running smoothly. With neat Avgas flowing through his veins, Simon is an aircraft enthusiast and takes a mean photograph.
Paul Williams
Deputy Operations Manager
Paul is our Deputy Operations Manager and works part time. Always polite and helpful, Paul holds the fort on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Asif Malik
Flight Instructor
Asif is a commercially qualified pilot and flight instructor. He works part-time for Merseyflight, usually on Saturdays and Sundays.
Paul Grossman
Flight Instructor
Paul is an IT wizard who instructs for Merseyflight on a weekend-only part-time basis. Paul started his flying career with us here at Merseyflight and works at weekends.
Steven Lee
Flight Instructor
Steven is another of our instructors who has worked his way through the ranks with Merseyflight. Steven is currently studying towards a Phd and flies with us at weekends and outside of University term times.
Our training fleet
Merseyflight operates a fleet of Piper PA-38 Tomahawk and Piper PA-28 Cherokee aircraft.
Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk
The Piper PA-38 Tomahawk is a two-seat, single engined aircraft designed and built specifically to teach people to fly.
It is a comparatively spacious aircraft with good all-round visibility and aerodynamics that foster good flying skills.
During the design phase of the Tomahawk, Piper consulted the flight training community in order to develop this class-leading training aircraft.
Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee
The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is the larger sibling of the Tomahawk.
The Cherokee is a four-seat cruiser which also makes an excellent alternative training aircraft with a greater weight lifting ability.
The Cherokee variation of the PA-28 has a maximum landing weight of under a tonne which attracts only the same, cheaper landing fees as the Tomahawk.
Our Location
Merseyflight are based at Liverpool John Lennon Airport which, as an international airport, offers a number of inherent benefits:
- A hard runway which is open all year round
- Numerous instrument approach facilities
- Night operations
- Full Air Traffic Control service within controlled airspace
Not to mention the thrill of taking off and landing from the same runway as the commercial airliners!
Learning to fly from an international airport is both a privilige and an enormous benefit to the student. It fosters, and demands, professionalism, high standards and safe practices.
Please see below for address and contact details. There is free parking at our venue.