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ROTARY RAMBLES Cenic Flights and Aerial Tours Operations and New Missions to Countries Meet Demand, Be Close to a High-Volume Make up an Important, Though in the Area AERIAL TOURISM An MD 902 Explorer of Heliservices soars over an urban area of Hong Kong. The company flies three such aircraft that are available for scenic flights. (Photo: Heliservices) Helicopter tourism in the Asia-Pacific region is a booming business, with single-engine platforms dominating the market. By Gordon Arthur ROTARY RAMBLES cenic flights and aerial tours operations and new missions to countries meet demand, be close to a high-volume make up an important, though in the area. I wouldn’t say it’s growing.’ scenic attraction and have relatively low S small, sector in the Asia-Pacific civil Kessler highlighted places like Cambodia, operating costs in order to attract enough helicopter market. Indeed, such operations where, even though there are few tourists to pay for the service. They must tend to be concentrated in a limited helicopters, a sizeable proportion (33%) are also be able to fly year-round. number of countries within the region. dedicated to tourism for flights over places Another boon would be a flexible civil Nadav Kessler, director of sales and like Angkor Wat. Perhaps surprisingly, aviation regulatory environment, although business development at Asian Sky Group, neither South Korea nor Taiwan registers a Kessler said that most countries in Asia- said: ‘I believe tourism is most established single air tour helicopter among their fleets. Pacific are ‘accommodating and supportive’. in Australia and New Zealand, and China Light, single-engine rotorcraft tend to Tourism flights tend to fly at lower altitudes, shows the largest potential.’ Those three dominate this specialist sector, with very so this requires more effort from operators nations top the list in Table 1, which few twin-engine models used due to their to get the necessary permits, for example. contains exclusive data provided by the greater operating costs. Kessler highlighted Asian Sky Group, showing the number of the Airbus H125, H130, Robinson R44 and Experiences down under helicopters available for aerial tours. R66 as popular platforms in this area. Underscoring the maturity of the sector, Nevertheless, Kessler told Shephard that While safety is always critical, Kessler Australasia tops Asian Sky Group’s list of aerial tourism is not a large sector, even believes the aerial tourism sector is not more tourism operators, with 104 helicopters among operators that fly multiple types of closely scrutinised than any other. ‘Safety- in Australia and 157 in New Zealand. missions. Furthermore, he does not believe wise, there shouldn’t be any differentiation Interestingly, tourism constitutes only about it is expanding in Asia-Pacific. ‘For many between these missions,’ he said. 5% of the former’s 1,907-strong rotary-wing [operators] I wouldn’t say it’s an area that He added that tourist flights are among the fleet. One major operator is Heli Experiences, they’re looking at for growth, for simplest to perform because they often follow part of the Experiences Group, which was development or [investment],’ he said. routine flight paths, do not go far offshore and established in 2007. ‘Tourism is fairly stable and, while are not undertaken at high altitudes. Heli Experiences offers two types of tour: economies are getting better, we’re not To be successful, Kessler suggested that short, scenic flights over cities that typically seeing much more demand for new operators need to be able to fly ad-hoc to last 20-30 minutes; and half- or full-day WWW.ROTORHUB.COM VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2018 ROTORHUB 7 AERIAL TOURISM flights or to the tourist industry. There is no shortage of sights, with bountiful scenic spots such as Auckland’s cityscape, the Bay of Islands, various volcanoes in the North Island, the Southern Alps, lakes, fjords and glaciers and even opportunities for whale watching off the Kaikoura coast. Another popular use for rotorcraft in New Zealand is for adventurers to take part in ‘heli-hike’ or ‘heli-ski’ excursions in remote areas. This type of activity is somewhat unique to the country. Going strong in Hong Kong According to figures provided by the Asian Sky Group, China operates 58 piston- engine helicopters, 43 single-engine turbine platforms, four light twin Airbus H135s and three gyroplanes in the tourism sector. Among the piston-engine aircraft, 49 are An H130 of GVHL flies through a valley in north-western India. The transportation of Hindu pilgrims is now a major part of the firm’s business. (Photo: GVHL) Robinson R44s and an additional six are R22 Beta models. In the single-turbine category, there are five Avicopter AC311s, excursions that range from 4-6h in length. is not too restricted. He also pointed out ten Airbus H125s and 11 Enstrom 480Bs. The latter generally visit a site of interest, the unique attraction of such tours: It is notable that domestic models from such as wineries/vineyards, the Great ‘Helicopters are cool!’ Avicopter are yet to break through in this Ocean Road in the state of Victoria or the However, occasional challenges remain, market, certainly in terms of tourism. Blue Mountains in New South Wales. such as weight restrictions and gaining ‘China does have high or decent demand Nikolai Heaphy-Page, director of the landing permissions, especially when for aerial tourism, and it has a lot of Experiences Group and head of marketing permits are hard to obtain from local scenic sights that would be good for such for the Ausjet Aviation Group, told Shephard councils. Heaphy-Page feels that civil tourism – there’s plenty of domestic that tourism accounts for 70-75% of its aviation regulations support the company’s tourism in China and they do use operations. The company is also involved in operations ‘as long as we respect and helicopters for this,’ Kessler explained. specialised aerial work such as photography/ abide by the safety standards enforced by ‘The issue for China is that regulations videography, marine passenger transfer, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’. make it difficult to operate freely and allow surveying (land survey/power pole scanning), ‘The government does support our creativity to adapt to the requirements mainstream media and private charters. operation as we are part of the tourism of tours to show them what they want to Heli Experiences’ fleet of 12 helicopters industry accounting for local and see. It is getting better, but I’d say that’s is spread across two bases in Melbourne international interest in the country. one country where there should be growth and Sydney and includes the Robinson However, local councils can hamper our but it’s not growing as fast as it could R44, which is used exclusively for tourist operations as helicopters can impact because of hurdles in regulations.’ flights. Other platforms used for sightseeing on noise pollution at certain times of Focusing specifically on Hong Kong, the are the Bell 206 JetRanger, 206L day/night,’ he added. territory’s harbour, urban skyscrapers and LongRanger and Airbus H125. These Heli Experiences is very positive about the country parks provide an ideal canvas for models double up to perform other tasks future. ‘Australia-wide, as a company, we have viewing from the air. The only company such as charters and aerial work. huge opportunities for growth and expansion authorised to offer scenic flights in the area ‘We have found that the tourism industry within the tourism industry, leveraging new is Heliservices, which was established in has continued to grow, with the helicopter locations and partnerships. As a national 1978 as part of the Kadoorie Group. The niche increasing in popularity over the last six market in general, the future shows promising operator describes itself as ‘the sole and to eight years. Growth opportunities are now growth, with opportunities opening up in line premier provider of rotary-wing services in heavily focused on the international market – with the increased interest in Australia from Hong Kong’. interest with international group travel being international markets,’ Heaphy-Page said, A spokesperson told Shephard that a large driver,’ Heaphy-Page said. and he even hinted at plans for the company Heliservices ‘offers a complete range of He highlighted the fact that there are to expand beyond the nation’s borders. aviation services, including aircraft charter unlimited destinations around Australia For New Zealand, 20% of the helicopters for sightseeing and VIP services, filming to visit via helicopter, since accessibility in the country are dedicated to scenic and photography, lifting work, power line 8 ROTORHUB AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2018 VOLUME 12 NUMBER 4 WWW.ROTORHUB.COM AERIAL TOURISM maintenance and methodical inspection’. that most big challenges ‘come from the attract more inbound visitors from all It even provides UAV rentals. weather in Hong Kong that may affect the over the world. The company has various options for operation of flights’, with hazards including tourists, covering standard sightseeing humidity, mist and typhoons. Pride of the Philippines routes over Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Heliservices spoke glowingly of the Of the 206 helicopters in the Philippines, geoparks, as well as customised flights, support offered by Hong Kong’s Civil seven are listed by the Asian Sky Group as ranging from 15 to 45 minutes depending Aviation Department, which has given being dedicated to tourism. PhilJets Aero on the package. permission for the company to rent the Services, which also has operations in Kessler described Heliservices as a Convention and Exhibition Centre helipad in Cambodia, performs approximately 80 very established tourism flight operator, Wan Chai on the edge of Victoria Harbour, scenic flights per year. In the past, about although its helicopters will from time to time sharing the facility with the Hong Kong 30% of its activity comprised tourism- be reconfigured for other work such as cargo Government Flying Service.
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