BASIC FLIGHT TRAINING SIMULATOR – Developed by George Tielen

IMMERSIVE / FULL MOTION / NEXT-GENERATION

START YOUR FLIGHT TRAINING ON OUR NEXT-GENERATION SIMULATOR TO MAKE YOUR FOLLOW-UP TRAINING ON REAL AIRCRAFT MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT.
Training Packages

SIMULATOR SESSIONS are two hours for €149 (excl. BTW)

Get your flight license in less hours, for substantially less costs ánd be a better skilled pilot

01.

Basic Flight Training

By receiving a few hours flight training on our simulator, the total amount of hours of instruction a student needs on a real airplane becomes a lot less. And you will become a better pilot.

NOTE
We advise to start with 5 sessions of 2 hours. During these sessions you ‘learn’ to fly all
flight exercises of the usual syllabus of your chosen aircraft, which you are going to fly on
after the simulator sessions.

02.

Advanced Flight Training

After passing the first PPL (Private Pilot License), the student officially becomes a pilot, who can fly with passengers under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in daytime hours on single engine aircraft up tp 2000 kg. It can be the first step to a career in aviation. If not a career, many pilots aspire to broaden their horizons as to be able to fly by night or by instruments (IFR – Instrument Flight Rules), or choosing skills like aerobatics.

03.

Motivational Educational Flights

For the flights mentioned below you don’t have to have flying experience. You will be accompanied and assisted by an instructor.

 

04.

More Sustainable Flight Training

The simulator doesn’t use fossil fuels at all. And due to the fact that much less hours are flown on all aircraft, General Aviation uses less fossil fuels and becomes a more sustainable business.

Basic Flight Training
Why get flight instruction on a simulator first instead of the ’real thing’?
  1. One of the main reasons is the anxiety every student feels in a real aircraft. The take-off’s and landings make the student anxious or even fearful. So much so, that the student doesn’t hear anymore what the instructor is telling him/her on final approach to the runway. As a consequence, the learning process becomes arduous and slow. Only after many hours of struggling through the exercises, the student masters the skills.
  2. In the simulator the instructor is equipped with an array of tools which are not at his disposal in a real aircraft. This makes a lot of difference in how fast you learn to fly.
  3. The advantage of learning how to fly in our simulator makes the whole flight course more economical.
Psychological Effect of Anxiety

When we are in a state of fear, there are stress hormones in our bloodstream, which (research has shown) have a bad effect on learning and memory.

  1. The phychological and emotional effects of anxiety causes impaired concentration and make you retreat in a bubble where outside stimuli are hardly noticed anymore (tunnel vision). During the approach to the runway, when the instructor tells you to correct something, most of the time the beginning student doesn’t hear it. The anxiety is induced by the ground coming up to him with 70 miles per hour, which makes the student afraid of crashing.
  2. Since learning to land is one of the highest priorities in flight training, it can become a permanent fixture on the mind when starting an approach; like a Pavlovian Effect. While many students learn to become confident in their ability to land safely, many will manifest a light form of trauma, always making the approach and landing uncomfortable inducing adrenalin.
  3. Because hearing and even vision is impaired other important warning signs (radio calls, emergency alarms, warning lights, etc) can also be missed which can lead to critical situations.
Stress-Free Simulator Training

A. Build up confidence (without anxiety) towards your ability to make safe landings.

B. Your confidence is mentally and visually attached to the sight of the runway on final.

Note: 

During the first training flight in a real aircraft after simulator training, your brain is accustomed to the mental picture of rushing towards the runway. Anxiety doesn’t play a part. Being very familiar with the picture you are confident that you can land safely.

Advantages of the SIMSALABIM Training
  1. When you do the sim-training first, the student will finish the actual flight training in less flight hours. Repetition is a big part of learning motor skills especially when they are geared to eye-hand coordination. Landing an aircraft takes up a large percentage of Basic Flight Training and shows the most challenging for a student to be able to land safely and confidently. An hour of Touch & Go’s in a real aircraft gives the student a number of 8 times to practise landings. In the simulator the instructor can skip the whole circuit by placing the student on approach again right after the landing. This way a student can make many more landings. It guarantees a much steeper learning curve.
  2. Virtual Instructor Tools
    a. The Freeze-mode gives the instructor the opportunity to stop the flight in mid-air and analyse the situation with the student.
    b. The Replay-mode (also possible in Slow Motion) gives the instructor the chance to show the student where mistakes were made and how to improve the landing.
    c. The Outside-View-mode makes it possible to view the aircraft from all directions. This tool is especially helpful with the flare just before the landing. The ‘camera’ shows how high the wheels are above the runway and which view from the cockpit it correlates with. To know the correct view from the cockpit in relation to the height above the runway is one of the biggest challenges the student confronts during training and which can delay ‘going solo’ tremendously.
  3. The economical advantage is significant. If you do the sim-training first it is statistically proven that the hours you need till your first solo flight are 30 % less. Also it will reduce the amount of hours till your flight exam. Hence, the costs will be less. Not only the cost for the flight hours, but also the reduction in the number of landings by training on the sim can add up to 10% of the total costs.
  4. As explained above, you won’t feel the same anxiety in a real aircraft. Mentally there is more room for fun while flying. Wasn’t that the reason to learn to fly in the first place?
  5. There won’t be cancellations due to weather.
  6. Being able to imitate navigation challenges like approaching and joining an unknown airfield circuit, which is always complicated for students, is a great plus.
Which Software and Hardware are necessary to create an Immersive Training Experience?

Technical set-up of a simulator to make Basic Flight Training feasible should meet certain requirements. The technical and software design should replicate the actual aircraft cockpit including the view from the cockpit in look & feel as much as possible

GET YOUR FLIGHT LICENSE IN LESS HOURS, FOR SUBSTANTIALLY LESS COSTS ÁND BE A BETTER SKILLED PILOT
ADVANCED FLIGHT TRAINING
After passing the first PPL (Private Pilot License), the student officially becomes a pilot, who can fly with passengers under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in daytime hours on single engine aircraft up tp 2000 kg. It can be the first step to a career in aviation. If not a career, many pilots aspire to broaden their horizons as to be able to fly by night or by instruments (IFR – Instrument Flight Rules), or choosing skills like aerobatics.
On the simulator many skills can be learned or sharpened. Here are a few:
  1. Cross-wind landings (possible also with turbulence and gusts) In the sim the crosswind landings are also very realistic. In the PPL course hardly ever do students get to practice cross-wind landings. The sim can make them proficient.
  2. Spins with Recovery
  3. Realistic emergency/engine off landings
  4. Aerobatics; Loopings, Barrel roll, Immerman, etc
  5. Navigation and Approach to Airfields Often PPL-pilots only fly to the airfields they went to during their training. The braver ones might fly to other airfields in the country. But flying to other countries is too daunting or intimidating for most amateur pilots. To help taking the anxiety away, one can practice approaches to unknown airfields in the simulator until it feels familiar, making the threshold to fly to these airports much lower (and safer).
  6. Instrument flying
  7. Multi Engine Procedures/ Engine Failures
  8. Type Rating Exercises and Procedures on Airliners like Boeings and Airbus
  9. Flying in Bad Weather Students and PPL-pilots hardly get the chance to experience bad weather, which makes them anxious or panicky when they encounter bad weather by accident.
MOTIVATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FLYING

For the flights mentioned below you don’t have to have flying experience. You will be
accompanied and assisted by an instructor.

TOP GUN CHALLENGE
  1. Anybody who wants to experience what it is like to fly a fighter jet, will have a blast while learning something about flying a jet. F16 pilots of the Dutch Airforce checked out all the flights Maverick made in the film in the sim, including a landing on an Aircraft Carrier. They said it was astonishingly realistic; hardly any different from flying a real fighter jet.
  2. Many flights in many locations in the world in many kind of airplanes can be experienced. There are beautiful discovery flights i.e.
    a. above the Piramids in Egypts in a Cessna 172
    b. over Bora Bora in French Polynesia in a Cessna 172 with floats (you can land
    in the lagune and feel the waves rock the plane)
    c. Flying in a glider over Como Lake in North Italy and many more wellknown places.
    d. And many others
  3. Anything is possible. The sky is the limit. If you have a special wish we can probably make it happen, i.e. Land on an icy runway in Iceland with a Business Jet; Fly through the Norwegian Fjords with a Piper Cub; Descend into the huge crater of the Bromo Volcano on Java, Indonesia.
Get in touch
Contact information
For information about the simulator call George Tielen
(+31) 6 5060 8499

Head office