Author: adi

We have dropped our 2 hour experience flight price to £180 for a limited time. The ideal gift for any enthusiasts in your life, or maybe treat yourself?

We are also running a midweek discount for sim enthusiasts. Email for more information.

Happy new year to all our friends, old and new!

We realise there are options out there for those dedicated sim pilots, not least flying your own sim at home but why not treat yourself to some time with a professional? You will find the answer to most of your questions online, by people wearing 3 or 4 gold stripes on their shoulders spouting on YouTube. They have to know what they are talking about surely?

Well , maybe. But I am an old cynic; the pilots I looked up to when I first learned to fly over 40 years ago didn’t crave attention or offer unsolicited advice, well unless you count the instructor leaning forward and clipping me around the head as I sat in the front seat of a glider whilst shouting: “you can do better than this!” (RIP Nev!). One of my instructors had flown a glider into Arnhem in Operation Market Garden during WWII, not that he told anyone or bragged about it, I only found out later when someone mentioned it in a conversation.

Anyhow I digress, well sort of. What I am saying is wearing a uniform even if you are a first officer at an airline with 1000 hours of flight time under your belt counts for little and the more experience you get the more you will realise how little you knew with that much time.

So what’s on offer? Well how about a morning spent flying our unique simulator with a 737 Captain with over 40 years of flying experience on at last count 38 types of aircraft including Instructing, banner towing, para dropping corporate and airline time at 3 airlines.

This is going to be a limited offer of no more than 3 times a month because it is a special price deal. It will also only be run during the week. We will operate an A to B flight including an operational pre flight briefing together and we can discuss any questions you may have as we go. It is entirely customisable to enable you to get as much from your visit as possible.

As always the best way to get in touch is by email and it will be a strictly first come first served basis, put “midweek sim slot” in the subject line. See you soon!

Well it is! There’s no point burying your head in the sand and time is running out to get your friends or loved ones a special gift.

Most folk these days would probably rather have a memorable experience than something random bought in a panic, Lynx, Socks and jewellery are so old. OK I get it you can buy a lot of Lynx and lots of socks for the same price as an hour in the flight sim but is your other half going to be excitedly telling their friends about the boxer shorts you got them for Christmas? Lets face it, if you bought Lynx everyone within 100 meters is going to know exactly what they got from Santa.

So, now you have decided to buy them a Flight Simulator voucher you need to decide where to get it from. Yes believe it or not there are now a few around. So to help you choose why not consider this one, in business for 10 years and with great reviews all round. Like at Trip Advisor for example.

So step away from the Usual and do something useful, as our tag lines say, Memories are Better Than Dreams!

Email us and we will send you a link to start the process of creating a personalised voucher.

If you are planning a trip to our simulator why not make a full day of it. A five minute drive from the simulator is the Doncaster aircraft museum which makes an ideal place to visit for the aviation enthusiast in your life, even if that’s you!

You will also find other things to do in Doncaster via the KAYAK website.

We are experiencing more booking requests than normal, which is nice for us, but not so good if you have a voucher that is expiring. It might be worth checking the dates on your vouchers.

Our contact page has comprehensive directions for your visit to the sim, however some weekends both gates are being closed and you will have to wait unto the security guard comes to open the barrier closest to the guards hut at the Montracon entrance where you should be aiming for on a weekend.

If in doubt just and you cant see a guard a quick blast on your car horn will let them know you need to get through. Failing that just give us a ring and we can try and find them to let you in. It’s not an ideal situation but its better than someone driving off in cars parked at the site.

Where has the last 12 months gone?

We would just like to take this time to wish all our customers a great Christmas and a successful and most importantly a happy new year.

We have been very busy recently mopping up some of the fallout from a couple of sim companies going out of business so hopefully we have helped relieve some of the stress which is bound to have affected those caught in the fallout.

It has been great to see several of our students get their first airline appointments and all of us who have been down the road of getting qualified to fly commercially will know the feeling of relief when you actually get to reverse the flow of money and get paid for flying. When I sit next to a pilot I can always tell which ones are passionate about flying rather than those that just want to wear the uniform and pose and it has been great privilege to help the enthusiasts get their dream job, well done all of you!

It is looking like 2025 will be a busy year with more recruiting and more vouchers being sold for Christmas presents it is just as well that I have retired from flying after 30 years and will be able to focus more on virtual flying than the real thing. Every cloud has a silver lining though; no more waking up at 3:00 am to drive to work!

All the very best from the Jet Simulator crew!

We have midweek slots available now at relatively short notice as we approach the winter recruitment season.

I have said this before but please don’t leave it until the last minute before booking yourself in for some practice. We all get rusty after time away from the flight deck and to be brutally honest it shows when its been six months since you last had a visit to a sim.

Rather than taking your mates and family for a flight n a C152 to practice your skills your time would be better spent in a simulator that behaves like the simulator you will be tested in when you go for an airline assessment. There will be plenty of time (and money) to spend on small aircraft once you are sat in the right seat of a 737.

You may only get one chance for your dream job, don’t risk missing it because you fail the sim.

It will be an especially happy new year for those pilots who have just landed their first jobs with various airlines and will be making their way through training ready for the chaos that is the summer season.

Don’t let your guard down though, people do get chopped and the standards are very high these days for flight crew. None of us ever stop learning and if you think you know it all you could be in the wrong job. So with that in mind we are offering a discount to those who just want to sit in a simulator and go through procedures rather than fly the sim. Get in touch and see what we can do to make you stand out of the crowd!

One of our friends has had his very own 737-800 simulator in his home but due to a change in circumstances he is looking to sell it all. Get in touch with us and we will put you in touch with him.