The Simulator — ALPA Simulation

Most "flight simulators" you can pay to fly are stripped-down boxes: a yoke, a screen, an enthusiastic operator. Ours is a Boeing 737-800NG cockpit. Built at full 1:1 scale, fitted out with commercial-grade avionics, and driven by the same ProSim B738 software found in professional training environments, used here for enthusiast and experience flights.

Every switch on the overhead panel functions. The MCP, the FMC, the radio stack, the pedestal: all live. The control yokes are weighted, with resistance that shifts as you fly: heavier and more deliberate at low speed, smoother as the aircraft builds speed. The seats are replica 737 flight-deck seats from FlyByCockpit. The throttle quadrant moves with the autothrottle the way it does in the aircraft.

This is the level of fidelity that takes years of obsession to build. Sit down in the left seat and the muscle memory of a real 737 pilot kicks in immediately. Sit down with no experience at all, and you'll be flying within fifteen minutes.

Technical specification

Cockpit: 100% functional Boeing 737-800NG flight deck: SISMO Solution Alpha avionics with custom realism modifications; yokes, frame and seats by FlyByCockpit
Seating: Four seats: two pilot, two jumpseats
Platform: Fixed-base, 1:1 flight deck including rear bulkhead
Visual: Three Viewsonic X10-4K UHD projectors · 220° field of view · warped and edge-blended curved screen
Software: ProSim B738 commercial: full instructor station for emergencies and scenarios
Scenery: 37,000+ airports worldwide · live and historical weather
Haptics: Bass shakers under each pilot seat: synced to engine, gear and flap movement

Gallery

From every angle.

Boeing 737-800NG cockpit lit by sunset, screens alive

Captain's view of Los Angeles International: the iconic LAX Theme Building through the windshield

Solo pilot at the controls, smiling in the left seat with the full 737 flight deck behind

Guest at the controls during a simulator session

Main instrument panel: PFD, ND, EICAS displays

Captain and first-officer control columns

MCP glare shield with approach scenery on screen

FMC keyboards and centre pedestal, the navigation brain of the 737

Young guest smiling in the left seat, blue sky and clouds filling the panoramic windshield ahead

Empty cockpit above a city, twin control columns and six glowing displays, with streets visible far below

MCP glare shield lit at night, city lights blazing through the curved windshield from altitude

Instructor and young guest at the controls, the full flight deck framed by the open cockpit door

Two guests side by side at the controls, overhead panel ablaze with switches directly above

Senior guest in the left seat, cockpit door framing the instrument panel and screens

Two young brothers grinning in the pilot seats, the full 737 flight deck spread out behind them

Young guest alone at the controls, runway lights stretching ahead on a night departure

Hand on the control column, MCP glowing above, a dramatic dusk sky ahead

Over-shoulder view through the captain's side window, deep blue ocean visible below

Video

Inside the flight deck.

Technical specification

From every angle.

See it run.

Ready to take the left seat?