Flight school & clubs

• Pig Club is a helicopter piloting school.
• Le Touquet Opal Coast Flying Club is a helicopter school and club, owned by leading English school heli flight.
• Aéro Delahaye - Ecole de pilotage ULM is another flying club with a base here.

Popularity

Le Touquet has been a very popular hot spot for UK pilots as one of their first landings on non-UK soil, which makes it a popular destination for fly-outs for flying clubs.

In Media

Le Touquet airport is featured in the Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Microsoft Flight Simulator X, also known as FSX, is the latest version of Microsoft Flight Simulator after Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004...

 mission Blind Across The Channel, in which the player flies a Cessna 172

Cessna 172

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing fixed-wing aircraft. First flown in 1955 and still in production, more Cessna 172s have been built than any other aircraft.-Design and development:...

 from Manston Airport in Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, UK on a foggy day using IFR.

External links

• Aéroport Le Touquet Côte d'Opale - official site Aéroport de Le Touquet - Côte d'Opale (LTQ / LFAT) at Union des Aéroports Français