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“waiting for my turn I stood inside the hangar that houses the two-storey beast, which, swaying on six powerful hydraulic jacks, looked like an escaped monster from the set of Star Wars…the sensation of flying is superbly recreated – a wraparound video screen in the windshield recreates a 3-D view of the chosen city and airport; the cockpit reverberates with the noise that four engines would make; and the machine shudders and jolts just as a real plane would.”
The Times
“remarkable experience…the simulators operated by Virtual Aviation give ordinary people the chance to ‘fly’ a passenger jet.”
The Express on Sunday
“you pull back on the stick,the ground falls away and you are soaring like a hawk through the skies over Manhattan. You level off and behind you 500 passengers unfasten their seatbelts and check the menu to see what’s for dinner. The weather’s good and you’re well on course for San Francisco. The simulators, each of them worth $20 million, can generate weather conditions from calm to hurricane, create turbulence, start fires on board and even pull other aircraft out of thin air to fly right at you.”
Arena
“impossible to get your head around the fact that, when you’re looking out of the window, you’re actually in a building at Heathrow and not on the runway at JFK...you really do feel like you’re taking off, banking and landing, with the view, the noise and the motion indistinguishable from the real thing.”
T3
“an ideal gift for the traveller who has everything.”
BMI Voyager Magazine
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“It’s a Boeing 747 flight simulator and believe me, you’ll love it. I know – I’ve just spent an hour in one and I’m still coming down from the rush. I couldn’t get over how authentic it all was…despite telling myself the view out of the window was just a projection onto a screen, not one part me of was willing to believe anything other than that this really was the end of the runway at Gatwick, with a crisp, clear night sky above.”
London Evening Standard
“For those you who have always fancied the chance of flying a Boeing 747 but have discovered a reluctance on the part of your captain to let you take the controls, the solution is now at hand...it’s all good fun and well worth the money.”
Airliner World
“a thrilling toy for would-be pilots…I didn’t do badly if you ask me. A bit of a bumpy ‘stop and go’ landing, and then we did the famous Hong Kong touchdown.”
The Mail on Sunday
“I’m about to take-off and land £15 million worth of equipment – 400 tonnes worth of 747 with more beeping and flashing than William Shatner ever had to cope with.”
Tatler
“these full-flight hydraulic simulators are so realistic that you’ll be convinced you’re really in the air!”
Corporate Entertainer
“the flight simulator at Gatwick had more than its share of thrills…I will never feel the same atmosphere as on the Gatwick simulator.”
Times Interface
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