Hi, i have had involvement with both Helipro and Helifight. Both have a great bunch of people
Helipro have a few bases around the North Island but Palmerston North & Paraparaumu are where they do there training out of (Don’t do any training out of there base in Wellington). Have both 3-5x H300 and 3x R22 trainers and a varied commercial fleet operating in alot of different operations. They carry out there own maintenance at there facility in Palmerston North. They will give you some training on crewing and often will have you assist as crew on some of there jobs. Have a great flight following system and are moving to having all training aircraft with Navman installed to track there aircraft. Close to the mountains/control zones/south island. Have the option of doing all you Theory with another aviation school which you will complete before you start any flying (takes about three months, 8am – 5pm, 5 days a week in Nelson) I recommend doing it this way as it is generally out of the way quicker and you can focus on your flying with out worrying about studying for exams.
Heliflight is moving out of Masterton and all training will eventually be out of Ardmore Airport in Auckland for training they have around 4-5 300cbi. Also have commercial operations, but mostly in the tourist field. Generally have had more students than Helipro. Help out a lot with theory which you do while you are learning to fly.
Both have websites and are pretty friendly in answering questions about flight training. Sorry it’s a bit of a novel but some of these where areas that got caught out in when looking for a training provider. All the best (-: