Virtual Jet Centre

5 days ago

*** Our Christmas Competition is Here!!! Guess the Location we are landing at to be in with a chance to win 60 minutes in the sim!

Now we appreciate this could be quite difficult, so to make it easier, the closest airport wins & we will give hints as the weeks go by towards the deadline! There is also a runners up prize too so enter today for your chance to win! ***

Winners to be announced in the second week of December 2018 making a great Christmas Present!

Rules - In order for your entry to be considered as entered you will need to like & share our page as well as comment the location on this post. Additional sharing of the post gives you an extra entry!
- The location we are using, can take a boeing 737-800 in the landing distance available so you wont need to suggest places that are unsuitable like Bodmin!

So get Commenting for your chance to win! ... See MoreSee Less

Virtual Jet Centre

1 week ago

***Ladies, Gents, Boys and Girls this is Big news Hot off the Press

Keep your eyes peeled, we will be launching our Christmas Competition shortly! *** ... See MoreSee Less

Virtual Jet Centre

3 weeks ago

'Our Simulator'

We have visitors come to try our 737-800 Simulator from around the UK, and also from far flung places around the globe, such as Australia.

Sometimes we ask ourselves why it is so popular, as there are other Centres scattered around the UK, so why don’t people choose to visit them. The simple answer is that we have a Motion Platform.

An aircraft in the sky has an amazing sense of freedom and part of that is the movement it creates by being in a fluid changeable mass which is of course the air and the thing that moisture creates, the clouds.

What the Motion Platform does very well is give the pilot the feeling of all those sensations when the aircraft is airborne. Pilots call it flying by the seat of your pants and the sensation the Platform gives simply tells us if the aircraft is speeding up, slowing down, turning, descending or climbing.

We once had a group of blind people come to visit the Centre and we were all amazed how well they managed to fly the aircraft, but again a blind persons’ sense of feeling is increased to make up for their loss of sight and the movement of the aircraft made it possible for them to demonstrate some amazing flying, so smooth that it put all the instructors to shame!!!!

We are also very lucky to have a great bunch of current or ex airline pilots who instruct with us with years and years of experience, all having their own stories to tell to our visitors plus their own favourite flights.

Every visitor can choose their own flight but if suggestions are requested from the Instructors a wide variety of routes can be flown from The Fjords of Norway, flying through the Grand Canyon low level and then finishing off flying down the Las Vegas Strip, or going through the Alps and landing on one of the hardest approaches in the world into Innsbruck.

So come and experience it and tell us what you think. ... See MoreSee Less