See the Molokai sea cliffs from the air — walls that drop 3,600 to 3,900 feet into the water, rainforest and waterfalls on the north shore, a crossing of the Pailolo Channel from West Maui. From a Maui overlook you get a distant edge. From the helicopter the cliffs are a face, and the valleys open under the skids.
Three Maui flights are built around this crossing: the 45-minute West Maui and Molokai tour, the doors-off version of that route, and the 75-minute oceanfront-landing event. All three fly the West Maui Mountains, then the channel, then Molokai’s north shore. The 30-minute Birds Eye View stays on Maui’s west coast. The 45-minute Hana and Haleakalā tour stays east. The 60-minute Complete Island is East and West Maui; you may see Molokai from the west coast, but that listing is not the channel crossing to the cliffs.
You do not land on Molokai on these tickets. The oceanfront landing is a private pad on Maui’s north shore, on the way home. You look at the cliffs from the air, then you fly back.
The extra over the Birds Eye View is this other island. Doors-off is the same cliffs with the doors off, not more of Molokai. The landing event is the same west-and-Molokai air time plus a stop on Maui. Stay on the 45-minute doors-on west tour if the cliffs are the point and you want the doors on.
Hawaii’s other big cliff wall on this site is the Nā Pali Coast on Kauai — a different island, a different hub. These Maui listings do not fly Kauai.
Shared cabin, six passengers. On the doors-off listing only a phone is allowed for photos, on a lanyard. Whales in the channel are a winter maybe, not a promise. Cloud on the north shore can hide a valley; the pilot flies the weather.
Book the 45-minute West Maui and Molokai tour and see the Molokai sea cliffs from the air.
See Molokai sea cliffs from a helicopter over Maui. Book the Maui 45-Minute Doors-Off West Maui & Molokai Helicopter Tour.