Heliflight
Look around before you make the big choice about where to fly.
The flying in NZ is great and its the topography and weather that makes it that way, not a certain company.
Heliflight NZ have spent alot of marketing dollars in the UK as a way to divorce themselves from a lucrative Massey University contract.
While this contract made Heliflight the large operation it is today, it is also the source of the disgruntled individuals you see here.
They got too big too fast and lost the personal touch they think they still have.
I am sure they would love your business as Massey have pulled the pin on them and that means 90% of their flying is no more.
Heliflight and Massey are now in court making these posts look like warm fuzzies in comparison.
There are some good trainers in Auckland still.
Try North Shore Helicopters and Ardmore Helicopters, They both train students from overseas and both are smaller schools that retain the good points Heliflight once had.