Thinking about Extra 300 hire? You are looking at one of the most capable aerobatic aircraft a pilot can strap into, and hiring is the sensible way to fly it without the outlay of owning one. This is a plain-English guide to what hiring the Extra 300 with Infinity actually involves: who it suits, what you need, and why the aircraft is worth the trip.

Who is Extra 300 hire for?

It suits a wider range of pilots than you might think.

If you are early in your aerobatic journey, the Extra is forgiving and honest. It does what you ask and gives you time to learn. If you already compete or fly displays, it will happily take everything you throw at it: snap rolls, tailslides, tumbling sequences and the rest.

The common thread is pilots who want serious aerobatic capability on their own schedule, without the standing cost of ownership. Hire the aircraft for the sessions you need, and leave the hangarage, maintenance and insurance to us.

What you need to hire the Extra 300

Hiring is straightforward, but there are sensible checks before you take the controls. As a guide, expect us to look at:

A valid Private Pilot Licence (PPL) or higher, with a current medical certificate
A minimum number of flying hours, weighted by your recent experience
A completed introductory check flight with one of our pilots

The check flight is not a hurdle so much as an introduction. The Extra is responsive in a way most training aircraft are not, and flying it once with an instructor beside you is the quickest route to feeling at home in it.

From enquiry to airborne: what’s involved

The process is short and human. Here is how it usually goes:

Get in touch. Tell us your experience, what you want the aircraft for, and roughly when. We will be straight with you about whether hire is the right fit.

Talk terms. We will walk you through how hire works (airborne time versus block time, and what is and is not included), so there are no surprises. Ask about anything; transparency is the point.

Book your dates. Once you are set up, you book the slots that suit you.

Brief and check. Before every flight, a full pre-flight check is carried out with a pilot or technical specialist, and you are briefed on the aircraft and the day’s plan. Nothing about the aeroplane stays a mystery.

Then you fly.

What makes the Extra 300 worth hiring?

Plenty of aircraft can loop and roll. Few do it with the poise of the Extra.

It carries a Lycoming AEIO-540 engine with an inverted oil and fuel system, so it keeps running happily whichever way up you point it. The high strength-to-weight ratio means high-energy figures feel planted rather than nervous. And the cockpit is roomy and well-equipped, which matters more than it sounds when you are working hard and want to focus on flying, not fumbling.

The result is an aircraft that flies as comfortably inverted as upright, and rewards precision without punishing you for learning. If you want the full case for it, we wrote one here: why the Extra 300 is the best aerobatic aircraft.

Is hiring better than owning?

For most pilots, yes, and the maths is simple.

Owning an aerobatic aircraft is expensive well beyond the purchase price: maintenance, storage, insurance and inspections roll on whether you fly or not. Extra 300 hire turns all of that into a per-session cost, so you only pay when you fly.

There is a practical upside too. If you are not based near an aerobatic facility, or you only need the aircraft now and then (for training blocks, currency, or competition prep), hiring gives you a top-tier machine exactly when you want it, and none of the commitment when you don’t.

The honest summary

Extra 300 hire gets you into one of the finest aerobatic aircraft ever built, on your terms. You bring the licence, the hours and the appetite; we bring the aeroplane, kept to standard and ready to fly.

Whether you are sharpening competition sequences or feeling out advanced aerobatics for the first time, it is a lot of aircraft for the money, and a lot of grin for the hour.

If hiring is not quite what you are after yet, our pilot-flown experience flights are the easiest way to feel what the Extra can do from the passenger seat first.

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Extra 300 Hire: The Practical Guide for Pilots