Great Southern Flying School

I completed my Private Pilots Licence with Great Southern Flying School after completing training with 3 other flying schools.
I cannot recommend Great Southern Flying School enough for anyone wishing to pursue a carrier in aviation, or just gain their pilots licence as a hobby or for fun.
I completed the last 37hrs of my PPL (which was 48hrs in total on my test date) with Murray. Murray is an exceptional instructor whom customises his instructing style to each student and teaches to the highest standard, not expect anything but the highest quality from his students. No matter if you are completing your RAAUS RPC, CASA RPL, PPL, or CPL, Murray teaches and expects commercial standards, so in turn your flying skills will be at Commercial standards, meaning that when you sit your exam the flight examiner has no hesitation in passing you. Making you the safest and most professional pilots in Victoria.

My son loves learning to fly at Great Southern Flying School !
We have always found Shane and Murray to be very friendly, proffesional, thorough and always very encouraging. It is obvious that they love teaching their students to fly.
I cannot recomend them enough.

My first interaction with GSFS was an initial phone call with Murray and it bought me to tears when he said it would be a privilege to give my son the experience of flying. Following that Shane started lessons with Luca, and over the following two years Luca looked forward to and loved every minute of his time flying with Shane. Shane was just so patient, encouraging, supportive and it literally was one of the most positive experiences of his life. Thankyou to both Murray and Shane for being consummate professionals, safe, reliable and with huge hearts, you have made a big difference in our lives! Nadine Kuc

I have been flying with and instructed by Great Southern Flying School for the past 18 months. I returned to flying after an 18 year hiatus with instructor Murray Medway bringing me back up to speed, in October 2021. The relaxed and thorough instructional style, both on the ground and in the air was highly professional and exceptional. Since then I have been flying with GSFS on a regular basis. I needed some remedial training recently after a three month absence on an aircraft type. I completed this today over an hour’s flying, both dual and solo. Murray’s business partner, Shane Stanley, a former airline pilot, is equally as passionate and thorough, instructing student pilots in the Tecnam. I cannot recommend both Murray and Shane highly enough. Any shortfall in my flying ability is quickly identified and remedied by either of them. Can’t wait to get to go flying again very soon.

A great flying school, both murray and Shane are excellent instructors, they have the right mix of safety, experiance and fun! There is definitly a love of aviation here! Would absolutly recommend them as a flight school.

Shane and Murray are both very skilled pilots and great teachers. They make learning to fly very easy and fun, they are great people and are very friendly and I don’t think there is anyone I would rather learn to fly with.

Fantastic school, run by a couple of top blokes, my brother really enjoys learning to fly here.

Worst pilots , arrogant and unprofessional. Wouldn’t recommend this company . Shane is a nasty person . Took my son up and ridiculed him on his flying and he wasn’t interested and didn’t have any patients for my young son who has hours experience flying else where .
But still charged me .
Avoid this company 👎