There is still a thriving market in iPad-based flight simulators. Lots of these have flashy videos in the App Store, but most ...

Step inside the cockpit without leaving home. With the Pimax Crystal VR headset, flight simulation reaches a whole new level ...

I was lucky enough to be a flight simulator maintenance technician (74-86) for the Air Force. I picked up my pilots license a bit after I cross trained out of simulators (they went the contract ...

Some students arrive at their first flight lesson surprisingly comfortable in a cockpit. They understand the purpose of most instruments and generally know what most of the various knobs and switches ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. - Army flight simulators are powerful computer programs allowing pilots to recreate real-world flight events in a safe and controlled environment. Pilots use flight simulators to ...

Horst Federau always wanted to be a pilot. But instead of going to flight school, he went to work studying electronics. The ...

When one thinks of getting into a flight simulator, one assumes that it’ll be from the pilot’s point of view. But this alternative flight simulator takes a different tack, by letting you live out your ...

It was about as gorgeous an evening as can be digitally created on X-Plane 11. I took off in my virtual Cape Air-liveried Beechcraft Baron from Nantucket, Massachusetts, at sunset, climbing to 4,500 ...

The intimidating puzzle of an F-16 dash stares back at me as the voice in my headphones calmly clears me for takeoff. I advance the throttle full forward and the Fighting Falcon rolls forward from the ...