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Key Takeaways:

  • National Flight Simulator offers a positive and cost-effective recurrent training experience with highly experienced instructors and "concierge-level" customer service, despite its basic physical facility.
  • The training features an engaging, interactive review of Cessna 340A systems using in-house material, often completing the curriculum efficiently with a relaxed pace.
  • A key limitation is that the simulators are generic multi-engine twins (mimicking a Baron), not Cessna 340A specific, which restricts aircraft-specific flight dynamics training to more general instrument and malfunction practice.
  • Despite simulator limitations, the author highly recommends National Flight Simulator for its overall quality, value, and instruction, expressing a willingness to return for future training.
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Like many of us, my insurance requires periodic formal recurrent training. Although choices are limited, I’ve tried to explore new (to me) facilities and to review that facility in these pages. This year I attended Cessna 340A Recurrent Training at National Flight Simulator in Manchester, NH. It was a positive experience and I’m glad I went.

Who?

Although they advertise, National Flight Simulator is one of those facilities that few of us know. It was started in 2006 in Nashua , New Hampshire by Steve Cunningham. Initially, his company was little more than Steve’s simulator in a corner of his hangar. But, Steve’s passion for aviation and for excellence in training led the company to expand to it’s current location at Manchester Airport, KMHT, in the former terminal building that was retired and turned into offices.

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