Overview

• Much more affordable than renting real aircraft with similar equipment.
• If you're new to flying, familiarization with flight controls and instruments can be accomplished faster.
• Pause a flight, ask questions, then resume flying or retry things quickly.
• Try takeoff and landing on every flight. In a real plane, you wouldn't be allowed until mastering certain skills.
• Practice multiple skills in the same flight.
• For instrument training, you don't have to wait for bad weather.
• You don't lose time flying to a practice area before initiating manoeuvers or instrument approaches.
• Practice the unexpected safely, like engine failure on takeoff or inadvertent flight into bad weather.
• Instructor can simulate failure of specific instruments.
• No time wasted on pre-flight, getting dirty checking oil, etc.
• Do all this from the comfort and convenience of our climate-controlled office.
• Bathroom break when you need it, not when you can land.
• FAA approved to log time for private, instrument, commercial, ATP certificates.
• See FAA approval details (PDF, 76Kb)
• Videos of the simulator's capabilities can be found on YouTube by clicking here and here.