Website: http://www.london.
lightexperience.co.uk/
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 300 40616
About: One of several companies
with a 737-800 simulator, Flight
Experience has a ‘Flying Club’
programme with reduced rates
for those keen to ind themselves
in the left-hand seat on a regular
basis.Company: Flight Sim Centre
Location: Unit 5, Waterford
Business Centre, Brunswick,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE13 7G
Aircraft Types: Boeing 737NG,
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II,
Supermarine Spitire
Price: 1hr - £59 (F-35, Spitire); 1hr- £99 (737)
Website: http://www.lightsimcentre.com/
Telephone: +44 (0) 7824510979
About: Newcastle’s Flight Sim
Centre provides a choice of three
very different aircraft to really test
your skills. The company’s F-35 and Spitire examples
are transportable, and prove to be a very popular
additions to parties and special events.
Company: Flight Studio
Location: The Hangar, Fowlmere Aerodrome, Royston,
Cambridgeshire SG8 7SH
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-800
Website: http://www.lightstudio.co.uk
Price: 1hr - £149
Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 750 737
About: Flight Studio’s 737 simulator is perfectly placed
for an aviation-illed day out, being located at Fowlmere
Aerodrome, it is also less than ive miles from Imperial
War Museum Duxford.Company: Fly A Flight Simulator Experience
Location: Leighton Buzzard Garden Centre, Hockliffe
Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 9NX
Aircraft Types: Boeing 737, Spitire Mk.IX,
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Price: 1hr - £95
Website: http://www.
lyalightsimulatorexperience.com/
Telephone: +44 (0) 1525 755453
About: Fly A Flight Simulator
Experience’s Spitire and Bf 109 devices
can be linked, pitting ‘pilots’ against each
other in Battle of Britain dogights –
giving an adrenaline-packed insight into
what crews experienced during World
War Two.Company: Jet Sim School
Location: 114 Culley Court,
Peterborough, PE2 6WA
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-800
Website: http://www.jetsimschool.co.uk/
Price: 1hr - £139
Telephone: +44 (0) 1452 238 011
About: Alongside more traditional
options, Jet Sim School offers seasonal
bookings so that children can get the
chance to ly to the North Pole and visit
Father Christmas. For those wanting
more of a challenge, the opportunity to
ly the demanding approach to Hong
Kong’s former Kai Tak International
Airport awaits.Company: SimAir737
Location: Aviation House,
Gloucestershire Airport, Cheltenham
GL51 6SR
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-800Website: http://www.simair737.com/
Price: 1hr - £159
Telephone: +44 (0) 1452 238 011
About: Rather than start on the runway, SimAir737
offer a ‘Gate-2-Gate’ option, allowing you to experience
pushback and trying to navigate your way along the
busy taxiways of an airport before you embark on your
light.Company: Top Gun Flight
Simulator Centre
Location: Railway Arches, Unit
3 Waterloo Court, Stalybridge,
Tameside SK15 2AU
Aircraft Type: Aero L-29 Delin
Price: 1hr - £65
Website: http://www.
topgunlightsimulator.co.uk/
Telephone: +44 (0) 161 338 3388
About: Top Gun’s ixed-base L-29
Delin simulator is constructed
from a former Romanian Air Force
aircraft. The Czechoslovakian-built
model gives customers the chance
to pilot a fast jet trainer which is
easy to ly yet still provides an
adrenaline rush.Company: Virtual Aerospace
Location:
Unit P, Toll Bar Business Park,
Newchurch Road, Stacksteads,
Lancashire OL13 0NA
Sywell Airport, Sywell,
Northamptonshire NN6 0BN
Hangar 4, Shoreham Airport, Shoreham by Sea, West
Sussex BN43 5FF
Aircraft Types: Avro Vulcan, 737-800
Price: 1hr - £159 (737), £169 (Vulcan)
Website: http://www.virtual-aerospace.com/product/vulcan-
bomber-light-simulator/
Telephone: +44 (0) 1604 211 336
About: Virtual Aerospace’s Lancashire location boasts
the only Avro Vulcan simulator in the world and has
designed several different scenarios for visitors,
including low-level navigation, formation lying and air-
to-air refuelling.Company: Virtual Flight Experience
Location: FourAcres, Lutterworth Road, Wolvey, Hinckley,
LE10 3HG
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-800
Website: http://www.virtuallightexperience.co.uk
Price: 1hr - £135
Telephone: +44 (0) 7853 639 891
About: Virtual Flight Experience can input
current weather information and map it
into the simulator in real time for an extra
level of authenticity.Company: Warwickshire Flight Experience
Location: Unit 2, Cutlers Farm Business
Centre, Langley Road, Edstone B95 6DJ
Aircraft Types: Boeing 737-800,
Supermarine Spitire
Website: http://www.
warwickshirelightexperience.co.uk
Price: 1hr - £99
Telephone: +44 (0) 1926 840 300
About: Warwickshire Flight Experience
can tailor lights to exact speciications,
enabling customers to pick and choose
the weather, arrival and departure airports
and even whether to encounter an in-light
emergency.Company: Yorkshire Flight Simulator
Location: Wakeield Commercial Park, 97
Bridge Road, Horbury WF4 5NW
Aircraft Types: General Dynamics F-16C/D
Block 52, Cessna 172 Skyhawk
Price: 1hr - £69
Website: http://www.yorkshirelightsimulator.
co.uk/
Telephone: +44 (0) 7825 882351
About: Yorkshire Flight Simulator’s
unusual pairing offers something for those
who want a thrill ride as well as those
considering a private pilot’s licence.46 Aviation News incorporating Jets December 2018
Above: A World War Two Spitire fuselage
forms the basis of Boultbee Flight
Academy’s Spitire LF Mk. IX simulator.
Boultbee Flight AcademyBelow: A Messerschmitt Bf 109 is seen from
Boultbee Flight Academy’s Spitire simulator.
Boultbee Flight Academy