andrewsfieldflightstudio
Great Dunmow
If you have ever boarded a plane, after taking your seat and stowing your bag,
you’ve probably looked towards the front of the plane and caught a glimpse of
what was going on in the cockpit. To most of us, the cockpits of familiar planes
like the Boeing 737 are places of some mystery and not a little glamour, full of
a dazzling array of glinting switches and dials, urgent conversations over
radios, and stylish uniforms. There can be few airline passengers that haven’t
wondered, at least in passing, what it might be like to don the captain’s hat,
take up their position in the pilot’s seat, and grab the controls on one of
those classic routes through the skies, say from London Heathrow to Paris
Charles de Gaulle or Amsterdam Schiphol. But let’s face it, for most of us,
unless we have several spare years to devote to training (not to mention a
natural aptitude for such things), the nearest we’ll ever get to flying a plane
is to play on a simulator game, a fun but essentially unconvincing experience on
our laptop or games console.
