Mount Cook Ski Planes offer the most spectacular alpine scenic
flight in the world. Our aircraft take you from Aoraki Mount
Cook Airport or Franz Josef directly into the heart of the
Southern Alps including Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest
peak at over 3750m and the Tasman Glacier, one of the longest
glaciers in the world. After an awe inspiring flight through
breathtaking scenery your ski equipped aircraft lands on one
of the glaciers in the Mount Cook or Westland National Park,
the engine is stopped, and you alight onto the glacier where
climbers would take hours or days to reach. With the engine
shut down you are able to experience the "natural quiet"
of the mountains, broken only by the occasional avalanche
or sounds from the glacier as it makes its way down the mountain.
Upon re-embarking an even more spectacular takeoff from the
snow covered glacier is followed by the return flight to base
following the other side of the valley with your pilot identifying
points of interest including climber huts, icefalls, peaks,
and occasional ski tourers and climbers, before your landing
back at your point of departure.
Mount Cook Ski Planes were awarded the Civil Aviation Directors Award for
Safety in September 2005. Learn more here...
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Mount Cook Ski Planes Cessna 185 with
passengers on the Upper Neve, Tasman Glacier, Aoraki/Mount
Cook National Park Heart of the Te Wahi Pounamu World
Heritage Area.
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Mount Cook Ski Planes is the holder of an Airline Air Operator
Certificate number AOC60950. Under CAA Rule Part 119 and 135
