Incredibly realistic

Experience

Fly the planes as the pilot, using the official flight simulators

Book your unique Full Flight Simulator experience now. The rhythm of the gaps in the runways pavement, the acceleration during lift off and soft movements during flight maneuvers – you will feel every single detail. The concert of a perfectly calibrated motion system translating every input to authentic movement, high tech visuals and sound systems and a fully functional cockpit in which every button works like in the original plane make this possible. You really see, hear and feel every part of the flight in Level-D certified Full Flight Simulators.

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Pilots sense the movement of their planes very precisely. To achieve a perfect replication of real flight maneuvers that match these honed senses, both accelerations and g-forces must be simulated. Original cockpits from aircraft manufacturers are fixed to an electrohydraulic platform on levers, making it mobile in all directions. To overcome the natural limitations of an immobile but moving system, many tricks are used as well. To simulate starting pressures, the cockpit is reclined to fool the human balance system. And it works perfectly. Simulator crews feel the rush of acceleration. When decelerating this process is partly reversed. And this really feels like braking on a runway! At all times the movement has to fit the view out of the windows to a point. The perfection needed for this is extremely high and requires a perfect tuning of highly sensitive systems – all of this according to specifications fit for the best of the best: the airline pilots responsible for the industry that travels safest.

Spatial orientation is a key point in flight safety Cockpit crews need to know at any point in time where obstacles, mountains or rolling hills are close to airports or even in certain flight situations. All this has to be independent from actual visibility. To train all possible situations, the visual system contains a wide spherical field of view, depicting the terrain in satellite quality. All relevant structures are represented accurately so that pilots have a feeling of recognition when approaching real-life airports and sceneries. Hong Kong’s old airport, situated in between skyscrapers, bridges and ships on an island, is a perfect example of the level of difficulty every simulator has to represent. And LATs Full Flight Simulators, flying the Level-D certification, are the best training simulators available on the market – trusted by all major global airlines.

Lufthansa Aviation Training

A unique simulation

Every LAT flight simulator, and there are more than 45, has ben certified by the Luftfahrt Bundesamt (LBA), Germany’s aviation authority, to JAR-FCL1A specifications and reached the highest level, Level-D. Only these simulators reach the specifications for airline pilot training. Every LAT Simulator is an exact duplicate of an existing plane within Lufthansa’s fleet and resembles this plane perfectly.

The Munich-based A320 Full Flight Simulator is an exact copy of Lufthansa’s Airbus A320 with the registration D-AIPA. The high quality and exact representation of real aviation flight is rigorously maintained and checked yearly by the LBA.

Simulator Technology

The Motion System

Pilots experience aircraft movements very precisely. For a realistic flight simulation, both accelerations and G-forces are necessary. The original cockpit is mounted on a platform that is controlled hydraulically or electrically. To overcome technical limitations, additional simulation techniques are applied. For instance, the cockpit tilting backwards during takeoff simulates rapid acceleration, while tilting forwards during braking, which, combined with visual impressions, is perceived as deceleration. The perceived movements are always aligned with the visual simulation, ensuring that the felt movement matches the "view out of the window" every second.

Simulator Technology

The Visual System

Spatial orientation is crucial for flight safety. The cockpit crew must always know the position of obstacles, mountains, or hilly terrain around the airport, regardless of visibility conditions. The visual system provides more than 180 degrees of satellite-quality visibility, including all critical airport objects. This allows pilots to precisely practise approach procedures in the flight simulator. An example is the old Hong Kong airport, which required special approvals and training in the Full Flight Simulator.

What is Conveyed?

The Briefing

How can a 400-ton airplane take off from the ground, and why is flying considered the safest mode of transport in the world? How is a cockpit structured, and what are all those instruments for? All these exciting questions will be explained by our pilots in a detailed briefing. After a 90-minute briefing, you enter the cockpit of the Full Flight Simulator and know enough to give the right thrust, take off, steer, read the altitude, navigate, and even perform the landing approach – sometimes more, sometimes less successfully. By the way: If you already have prior knowledge and are flying in one of our advanced programs, our airline pilots can of course specifically address your wishes and go through further questions and flight maneuvers with you.

Who Will Supervise Me?

The Instructors

Guided by Experience

Who better to convey the fascination of flying: All 80 ProFlight instructors are long-time, experienced, and for the most part active airline pilots. They have an average of several thousand hours of flight experience. This experience makes them particularly adept trainers – and in addition, a virtually inexhaustible source for exciting and authentic stories and anecdotes from the world of aviation.