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FIXED BASE SIMULATORS
Company: Airavana
Location: Unit 5, Targent Business Park, Weighbridge
Road, Shirebrook, Derbyshire NG20 8RX
Aircraft Types: Boeing 737-800
Website: http://www.airavana.co.uk
Price: 1hr - £120
Telephone: +44 (0) 1623 749 723
About: Airavana offers a range of training that can
enable customers to eventually use their simulator
‘solo’ without the supervision of an instructor. The
company boasts a database of over 24,000 global
airports to choose from.


Company: Ascent Aviation
Location: 32 Napier Street, Linwood, Paisley, PA3 3AJ
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-800
Website: http://www.ascentaviation.co.uk
Price: 1hr - £102
Telephone: +44 (0) 1505 341113
About: The most-northerly company in our guide,
Ascent’s Boeing 737 simulator is available to book for
groups as well as individuals, including for team-
building exercises. The company claims to have the
most immersive  xed base 737-800 series simulator
in Scotland.


Company: Boultbee Flight Academy
Location: Hangar 8, Goodwood
Aerodrome, Chichester PO18 0PH
Aircraft Type: Supermarine Spit re Mk.IX
Price: 1hr - £200
Website: http://www.boultbee ightacademy.
co.uk/
Telephone: +44 (0) 1243 531147
About: Boultbee is a Spit re specialist
which, along with time in its simulator,
can also get you airborne in or alongside
real Spit res. Its  xed-base simulator
is constructed from an original Mk.IX
fuselage painted to replicate AVM ‘Johnnie’
Johnson’s LF.IX, MK392, in which he shot
down 12 enemy aircraft.


Company: Brooklands Museum
Location: Brooklands Rd, Weybridge
KT13 0SL
Aircraft Types: Aérospatiale/ BAC
Concorde
Price: Gold Package 2hrs in sim, 30 mins


at the controls - £475; Silver Package 1hr in sim, 15
mins at the controls - £199
Website: http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/concorde/
concorde-events/ y-the-simulator
Telephone: +44 (0) 1932 857 381 ext. 266
About: Decommissioned in 2004 following Concorde’s
retirement in October 2003, this is the only surviving
operational Concorde simulator. Following a move
from Filton, Bristol, it has been restored by Brooklands
Museum and is available for those fancying themselves
as a Concorde pilot.

Company: Deeside Flight Simulators
Location: Unit 18, Flexspace, North Road, Ellesmere
Port, Cheshire CH65 1AE
Aircraft Types: Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320 and

Agusta 109 helicopter
Website: http://www.deeside ightsimulators.co.uk/
Price: Agusta A109 - 1hr/£50, Boeing 737-800 and
Airbus A320 - 1hr - £100 plus various other packages
available
Telephone: 0151 662 0018
About: It provide professional hardware and
programmes to give a full and realistic experience
using static type simulators. The simulators were once
real aircraft and have been skilfully recon gured to
create a realistic environment for aviation enthusiasts
and pilots to  y. The company has the only rotary wing
simulator in the UK should you want to swap throttle
and stick for cyclic and collective and try  ying an
Agusta A109.

Company: Emirates Aviation Experience
Location: Edmund Halley Way, London SE10 0FR
Aircraft Types: Airbus A380-800, Boeing 777
Website: http://www.aviation-experience.com
Price: Ultimate Sim Experience – 1hr  ying, two
exhibition tickets - £90
Sim Experience - 30 min  ying, one exhibition ticket


  • £60
    Telephone: +44 (0) 203 440 7020
    About: Part of Emirates Aviation Experience – there are
    two packages that allow guests to visit the attraction
    and spend time in either the Airbus A380
    or Boeing 777  xed-base simulators.


Company: Flightdeck Reality
Location: Boston Aero Park, Boston
Aerodrome, Boardsides, Boston,
Lincolnshire PE21 7NY
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737NG
Price: 1hr - £99
Website: http://www. ightdeck-reality.co.uk/
Telephone: +44 (0) 1205 310 737
About: As well as experiences of up
to two hours, Flightdeck Reality also
caters for children’s parties and provides
sessions for those wanting to overcome
their fear of  ying.

Company: Flight Experience
Location: 129 Upper Richmond Road,
Putney, London SW15 2TX
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-800
Price: 1hr - £199

Above: Brooklands Museum’s Concorde
simulator is the only one of its kind in the
world. Brooklands Museum
Left: The Boeing 747 simulator operated by
Flight Simulators Midlands. Flight Sim ulators
Midlands
Below: One of Cardiff Aviation’s full-motion
747-400 simulators received special titles
ahead of Iron Maiden’s 2016-17 The Book of
Souls world tour. Cardiff Aviation

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