Flight Simulators

Visitors to the Museum of Flight in Seattle will soon have an opportunity to experience the earliest days of military aviation thanks to the collaboration of two local technology companies.

Ride along on a Microsoft Flight Simulator journey through history in the H-4 Hercules.

Are you a certificated pilot who used home flight simulation in your training? Our partners at Flight Simulation Association are conducting a study to quantify the impact of home flight simulation on pilot training. You can help by completing their quick survey here. Are you using at-home flight simulation for flight training, proficiency, and currency? […]

The state-of-the-art equipment will help accommodate 300 students per year, according to European Flight Academy.

Software, such as X-Plane, allows you to try an LSA on for size.

On Monday, ATP Flight School announced a purchase of 20 Frasca flight sims. The FAA-approved advanced aircraft training devices (AATDs), valued at about $6 million, will be utilized in ATP’s Airline Career Pilot Program.  The additional simulators will bring ATP’s fleet of flight training devices to 150 across 70 training locations. The first AATDs are […]

Epic Flight Academy has trained thousands of pilots who have gone on to careers at more than 300 airlines worldwide, according to the company. And they pride themselves on being able to move students from around the world through a training course in the most efficient way. So it makes sense that Epic would look […]

Cockpits make terrible classrooms. They are expensive, loud, quick to produce sensory overload, and there is always the potential for the “classroom” to collide with something else—such as another “classroom.” If you are looking for a less expensive, more productive path to learning to fly, consider utilizing an aviation training device, commonly referred to as […]

When Kirby and Teresa Ortega retired from Textron Aviation—after a combined 66 years with the company and its predecessor, the Cessna Aircraft Company—they knew that they were far from through with general aviation and flight training. The pilots wanted to develop their own path in teaching folks to fly based on those decades of experience, […]

It wasn’t very often during four years of aviation training at Purdue University that my eagerness to attend class was less than enthusiastic. But it waned on the bad-weather days when the substitute for flying an airplane was the 1950s or ’60s Frasca simulator. After an airline career of referring to a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar Level […]