SPITFIRE SIMULATOR
Mysecond and best landing (on the grass !) on the Wisborough Green Spitfire simulator. This is the control tower view at Duxford, UK
Warwickshire flight experience
Trying a 737-800 at Warwickshire Flight Experience Sept 2017
laurie flies a Spitfire briefing for flight Part 1 'INTO THE BLUE' LEIGHTON BUZZARD,BEDFORDSHIRE.
Today we went to look at the Spitfire simulator at 'INTO THE BLUE' at a garden centre at Leighton Buzzard,Bedfordshire,here Laurie gets into the Spitfire for his flight briefing by the owner who is a qualified real pilot who flies out of Biggin Hill.
The experience was amazing and even myself filming this could sense the concentration of Laurie flying the aircraft.
After a fly around he was instructed how to land the machine which is quite nose heavy and needs great care in preventing it from tipping over ! this was followed with an exciting take off with the Merlin roaring away and another excellent landing to be proud of.
Flying with Spitfires - fly alongside a Spitfire!
A little taste of what to expect from our 'fly alongside a Spitfire' experiences, launching May 2016.
Our helicopter pleasure flights take-off and land from Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex, taking in some of the UK's most beautiful scenery, including the white cliffs at The Needles on the Isle of Wight.
The most true-to-life Spitfire flight simulator at Boultbee Flight Academy
In order to give pilots a realistic sensation of flying, Boultbee Flight Academy wanted to create a simulator with a realistic aerodynamic model of the Spitfire Mk IX. This would use a real Spitfire MkIX fuselage with authentic gauges, controls and instruments. It would need high resolution imagery projected onto a spherical dome screen to simulate what a pilot would see and experience when flying this fighter plane.
The simulator was installed in a 3.4 x 4 x 2.9m (WxDxH) room adjacent to the pilots’ briefing room. The 3.2 m radius spherical dome screen needed to be manufactured in bespoke segments to allow installation with minimum clearance in the height and width domains. Seven Optoma W505 projectors with short throw 0.8:1 lenses were positioned and oriented so the images covered the spherical screen completely and, also very importantly, such that the Spitfire Mk IX fuselage, with its canopy closed, does not created any shadows on the screen.
Read the full case study
Amazing flight simulator at Warwickshire flight experience!
I had a great day at Warwickshire flight experience, the staff were very friendly and patient. Everyone is welcome, whatever the skill level!
To find out more about this awesome day visit this link here:
Spitfire Simulator at Maidenhead Heritage Centre.wmv
The Spitfire Simulator at Maidenhead Heritage Centre is flown by a 91 yr old Air Transport Auxiliary veteran, who shows just how it should be done. Notice the replica flight controls and wide screen pilot view - this is the most sophisticated Spit simulator available to the general public and is part of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the forgotten pilots of ATA. More details on grandmaflewspitfires.org
Why the spitfire is useless in simulator battles PART I
Spitfires in War Thunder have terrible yaw stability. This makes it difficult to aim and it also makes the plane more prone to 'one wing stalls' resulting in terrible speed loss or even a flat spin.
Two vulcans at wellesbourne
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Spitfire Experience - take off
Spitfire simulator mode kill
Spitfire flight at Goodwood
Flight in Boultbee Spitfire T9 at Goodwood, September 3 2014.
WFE from Stratford Upon Avon
This video gives you step by step instructions on finding the Warwickshire Flight Experience.
The song is Mr Blue Sky By ELO.
Avro Lancaster, Hawker Hurricane & Spitfire flight over Port Erin, Isle of Man
Low level flight of three WW2 beauties in all their glory. A privilege to witness.
P-47D Intercept/Escort of a B-17G in Virtual Reality with Lorby-SI's AITrackerX and the HTC Vive
The immersion is getting pretty deep around here. ;-)
I'm learning how to use Lorby-SI's AITrackerX ( software to send airplanes out on flight plans and intercept them in other aircraft. In this example I put an A2A Simulations B-17G in a Mike Sweeney Meat Hound livery on a flight plan from north of KOSH (and sent it down to Chicago) and took up an A2A P-47D in Jan Kees Blom's Wicked Wabbit paint. And all of this is in FSX:SE with Orbx scenery and FlyInside to get virtual.
And once again, the video just does not show what this looks like in the headset. If you look at the B-17 parts like the tail gunner position and the wing tip, you can see where I am in relation to the '17 in some of the shots. It was close. The wide angle distortion makes it look farther away than it looks to me but combined with virtual reality, the fear level was going up so that I wouldn't run my prop into the hull of the B-17 or impale myself on its props when I went alongside and down below. It's very weird but the tension is there even though I know it's not real. The thing is it looks real in the headset. It's actually one of the down sides of close formation in VR because you have to fight the fear of crashing into the other planes. Totally absurd but there. The guys who watch these in Cardboard or Gear will get some of it and they can see it in 3D too. Just very very cool and the A2A B-17 is beautiful up close! The parts where I was holding formation aren't so interesting as the clouds go by so those parts serve as introductions to the moves.
And Lorby-SI's AITrackerX is amazing. (And apparently this video is blocked in Germany - sorry Oliver! Will pick music that isn't next time.) I'm still trying to figure things out but at some point you just want to go fly. ;-) I wanted to get a formation of B-17s going to catch up to but I still haven't sorted out how to get them to form on each other so had to settle for just one this time. And that was still cool as hell. I can't wait to intercept a formation!
So, all the realism of the A2A warbirds and the stunning repaints by various authors, getting other planes to fly a flight plan using AiTrackerX, and doing it all in virtual reality with FlyInside, and this is quickly becoming a whole lot of fun!
Pete's Spitfire Experience - Victory Roll!
Leighton Buzzard pilot's Boeing 737 simulator in garage
Professional pilots and amateur beginners have been given the experience of flying a Boeing 737 - from a man's garage.
Private pilot Mark Lowen, who has 20 years' experience of flying, set up Fly a Flight Ltd at his Leighton Buzzard home.
The flight simulator is a fixed-base Boeing 737 to scale, running full commercial software and hardware for the novice.
It can fly from any airport worldwide in any weather day or night.
Mr Lowen said: We have many various scenarios available for all levels of ability.
You do not need any previous flying experience to be able to take part.
A2A Simulations Spitfire at dawn, Duxford
Fly A Flight - on ITV Anglia
Fly A Flight, flight simulation in Bedfordshire on ITV Anglia