Thank you for visiting our website.  We hope that what you see here will answer most if not all of your questions about helicopter flight training in Hawaii. 

Mauna Loa Helicopters is an FAA Part 141 flight school with bases on three of the Hawaiian islands: Kauai, Oahu and the Big Island of Hawaii.  Mauna Loa also conducts charter flights and tour operations. 
Hawaii offers convenient flight practice areas, uncongested airspace, favorable weather conditions and best of all, one of the most dynamic training environments in the world.  From mountains up to 13,796 feet (4,200 meters), to constantly changing weather conditions, an active volcano, ridge and valley flying and a place to learn busy airspace (Honolulu International is the nation’s 11th busiest airport), you’ll find that Hawaii offers you an exceptional place for your helicopter flight training.  Plus, your stay here will create memories that will last a lifetime.

Here, we fly year round.  There’s no extreme heat, no oppressive humidity, no fog and no bitter winter cold.  Hawaii offers amazing climate: our average daytime temperatures are in the low eighties (30 degree C) in the summer and the mid-seventies in the winter.  The weather here is just about perfect. Mauna Loa Helicopters is one of the few schools that can offer Instrument, Instrument Instructor and Airline Transport Pilot Courses as well as External load training. And, we are one of just three helicopter flight training schools in the country that is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges.  We have all the amenities of the largest pilot training schools and yet maintain a personal level of instruction that makes smaller schools so special.

Perhaps our greatest asset is our experienced instructor corps.  These people are seasoned professionals, having themselves graduated from our comprehensive training program.  They receive annual recurrency training and are continuously available to give students the individual attention needed to become a professional helicopter pilot.