30 minute Spitfire or Messerschmitt Flight Simulator
Overview
Take the controls of one of the most iconic fighter planes in history, with this 30 minute immersive simulator experience, you can hit the skies in a Spitfire MK9 or Messerschmitt BF109.
Both built to original specifications complete with a full set of working gauges and controls, this totally unique experience is as close to the real thing as you can get. Flown individually using original flight characteristics, test your skills on take-off, master the flight controls, and bring your fighter back down to earth.
There’s also the option of a unique dual combat experience, with the two planes linked together. Take off from separate airfields for an unforgettable dogfight.
- SKU
- PFAF30
- Locations
- 1 in the UK
- People
- For 1
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 4.9 (52)
What's Included
- 30 minute Spitfire or Messerschmitt Flight Simulator
- Take your seat in the cockpit built to original specifications
- Test your take-off, flying and landing skills
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
You’ll hop aboard your chosen fighter for an immersive 30 minute simulator experience. Try taking off, master the flight controls and land your fighter.
Participant guidelines
- Minimum age 10 (Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)
- Maximum weight: 22 stone
- Minimum height: 4ft 5in
- Due to the restrictive access to the Spitfire it will not be suitable for less able-bodied people. The Messerschmitt has been designed for easier access
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
The experience is available Monday to Saturday, subject to availability. Some exclusions may apply
Please note from 1 August 2019 the experience will not be available on Sundays.
We recommend you book at least four to six weeks in advance for a weekday and four months in advance for a weekend to ensure that dates are available. Booking early is recommended, as availability is limited. All bookings are subject to availability.
Your flight will last for 30 minutes but please allow longer at the venue.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
How it works
Customer Reviews
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Rod sturgesd
05/09/2021
Spitfire
Fantastic I would fully recommend it for war plane fans I would guess as close to getting a flight on a spitfire well done and thank you
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Biggle's Wife
02/09/2021
A wonderful hour!
Well, I have to say my husband enjoyed this special treat flying the iconic Spitfire so much that I let him have my 30 minute slot as well. If you can afford the treat I would say a one hour flight would be better - admittedly he did crash the plane and was shot down too but he had a smile on his face the whole time. So sell organised and two great guys - Victor and Dan giving the helpful instructions
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Patricia Walten
29/08/2021
Fabulous
Very realistic and great staff
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Bob Mayhew
18/12/2020
Awesome
Awesome ....no other words neccessary
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Ian
29/08/2020
Excellent
What an experience! Fantastic. From the moment that you arrive to leaving the whole time is filled with excitement. Flying the Spitfire, take off and landing, shooting at baddies, all supervised, was great fun. The instructions were comprehensive. I highly recommend this experience to anyone 100%
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Dan
16/03/2020
Friendly Staff and Great Sim
There is plenty of parking and cafe facilities in the nearby garden centre. The staff inside are very friendly and know the simulator very well. Unlike some other venues that dictate what you fly, you can choose the scenario, bombers, fighters, take off, landing, etc. They provide good advice and the simulator is very good. Not as cramped as a real cockpit and doesn't move on gyros, but it's enough that you get much more of an experience than you could ever get on a PC.
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Jamie
15/03/2020
Loved it.
Loads of fun, friendly staff. We will be back.
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Martin
08/02/2020
Fantastic experience, very realistic.
Fantastic experience, very realistic, all staff very friendly and knowledgable. Easy to find, would do again. Highly recommended.
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Brian
16/12/2019
Spitfire Flight Simulator
Excellent experiance. The two instructors were 1st. class and really new their job.
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Clive
03/11/2019
Spitfire flight simulator
Great experience recommend to everyone.
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Sydney williams
19/10/2019
Worth every penny, exceeded expectations.
I would highly recommend
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Andrew
17/09/2019
Great
Really enjoyed it, great!!
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Peter
24/08/2019
What an experience
Very good experience 30mins flies by so to speak,could do with more time when I go again, highly recommend
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Nigel
04/06/2019
Great fun
30 minute spitfire flight simulator. Great fun and went oh so quick. Great instructor would definitely do another maybe the airliner one next time
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mikiew
29/05/2019
Wow, Thats Scarey Difficult but not to Miss
The experience is well organised and runs like clockwork. If flying a Spitfire in a dog fight was really this difficult then everyone needs to do this to understand what those young men had to do.... went through during the Battle of Britain. The experience accurately recreates the 'hunt' for enemy aircraft, the difficulty in spotting them, the sudden speed with which it closed on you bullets and tracer screaming through your plane, the sheer disorientation as you roll the Spitfire...
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Keith
14/05/2019
Brilliant experience
What an amazing day. The staff were all fantastic and very friendly and informative. Have total respect for all the young pilots who had to fly the spitfires in WW2. Would highly recommend this experience for anyone young or old. Fantastic experience and hopefully be the first of many.
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Mya
28/04/2019
Very enjoyable
I bought this flight simulation experience for my son for his 13tH birthday. He really enjoyed it. He would like to go back and do it again.
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Kevin
11/04/2019
Fantastic experience
Really informative and fun experience, before I went I wasn't expecting much more than a computer game style flight but was much much more , from the start the staff were friendly and helpful and the flight was just like the real thing , authentic cockpit with all the dials and controls , learned a lot of history and technical info about the plane .and the flight was awesome from dog fights to landing the plane (which didn't end well )was a thoroughly immersive experience, thankyou
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Michael
08/04/2019
Excellent
I had a great time, spending 30 minutes flying a Spitfire. I was well looked after from arrival, with staff enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. I was talked through everything and was then able to spend the entire flight uninterrupted as I sat in a replica cockpit. Expert instruction throughout. Thanks!
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Caroline
07/04/2019
Excellent !
My mother-in-law had a fantastic tine. Barry was patient, informative and totally focussed on ensuring an enjoyable experience was had by all. Highly recommended.
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David
31/03/2019
Dakadakadak
Great fun shooting up enemy bombers, taking off and crash landing. Efficiently run and well worth it. Might come back with a friend and try the dogfighting option.
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Chris
20/03/2019
A challenging experience and great fun!
For non pilots like me this is a challenging and also interesting experience which is also great fun.
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Roy
15/03/2019
Fantastic
I had a great time in a spitfire simulator and the instructor explained all the controls and gave you various options just flying around ,take off and landing and dog fight ,I enjoyed first 15mins just flying and getting used to controls then next 15mins attempting Landing , didn't land on runaway but landed on the grass ,but didn't crash thoroughtly enjoyable half hour. Only down side was one and half hr drive from s.e. London
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Woody48
09/03/2019
Very Real
Having received this voucher as a present and travelling five and a half hours I was not disappointed. Excellent customer service. Very relaxing introduction. Can definitely recommend this.
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Donald
27/01/2019
Excellent experience
30 minute Spitfire simulator experience. Excellent set up at Fly A Flight. Good time. Would definitely recommend.
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John Hannaford
27/01/2019
Brilliant!
This was such a good experience. The background information from the instructor made the flight much more immersive and enjoyable. It's the sort of thing that you could do again and again. You learn so much about the aircraft and what it was like to fly this machine back in the day. It leaves you with a true sense of awe of those young airmen that fought for our freedom. Incredible!!!
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William Williams
16/01/2019
Terrific experience
My 60 minute session in the Spitfire simulator was an amazing and enlightening experience and is all, and more, that I hoped for. I plan to do this again!
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Robert
07/01/2019
A wonderful daughters present to her old dad.
Arrived safely at the Flight Centre in Leighton Buzzard, clear instructions stopped me getting lost. Made very welcome by Gemma. I had chosen the Spitfire experience, excellent briefing followed by a terrific "flight" without crashing the Spit (to my surprise). The time went too quickly. Will I try to go back for a longer session - yes, and try the Messerschmitt as well.
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Allan
27/11/2018
I nearly landed it properly!
Had such a great time in the Spitfire simulator (nearly landed correctly twice) booked up to try again as soon as I finished. Also bought the 1 hour dogfight experience as a Christmas present for somebody else. Great day.
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Andy
13/11/2018
Spitfire Simulator experience
This was a present from my wife and in my opinion there was but one thing wrong with it - it wasn't long enough!! She had only bought 30 minutes so this was no fault of the provider who was very helpful, put me at ease, answered all questions fully and I had a great time. In fact, I'm going to book another and it's going to be much longer next time!!
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Mark
29/10/2018
Excellent experience, highly recommended!!
Had a great time at Fly a Flight on the Messerschmidt simulator. The staff there couldn't have been more helpful or friendly. The opportunity to fly the BF109 was outstanding and I would thoroughly recommend this experience to others.
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Andy Colbert
27/10/2018
Very, very happy birthday
This was as near an experience you can get to the real thing. To re live what those guys had to go through was remarkable. Can’t wait to do it again. Anyone who has an interest in flying or WW2 should do this.
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Granville
06/10/2018
Tremendous
Great time had. Made to feel important.
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Norman
04/10/2018
Not quite...
Good greeting good sound briefing. Excellent flight. Sorry I crashed your Spitfire. Hope to do better next time🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
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M.C.
13/08/2018
Brilliant spitfire experience
The 30 minute spitfire experience was exhilarating to feel what the pilots must have learnt to achieve in a very short training period. It was very difficult to fly, I crashed once, so give it a go.The staff are very knowledgable and helpful but you are the flier. Its the 737-800 simulator for me next
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Barrie Parsons
04/08/2018
Another birthday experience
The best experience short of climbing into a real life spitfire. The one thing missing perhaps was the feeling of flying in the air with all the turbulence that you could get. A wonderful day. Thankyou
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Steve
30/07/2018
30 min Spitfire Flight
Brilliant time, pilot introduction and instruction very good. came away really appreciating what the WW2 pilots did.
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Alex
05/07/2018
A great Spitfire experience
The cockpit of the Spitfire really helps make it a reality, every manoeuvre becomes much more physical when you're fighting the joystick and reaching for the throttle.
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Mike
21/06/2018
A MUST if you love Spitfires!
A fantastic experience! There are various senarios you can do, from just flying about, to trying to shoot Me109's, or taking off and landing (both trickier than you may think!). Mark is there to instruct, then it's cockpit closed and you're off. It really does feel real and it's probably the closest I will ever get to actually flying one of these amazing aircraft. Simply brilliant!
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Alan
03/06/2018
Fly a spitfire and feel it's real
an excellent experience this is no arcade game and you feel like you are in the real thing as soon as you sit in the cockpit. Your instructor / guide is absolutely briilliant. Take this thrill once and you could get hooked!
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Dave
12/05/2018
Scramble !
Knowing of my love of Spitfires and that I’d already spent several hours with Mark in his 737 simulator, my wife biught me a 30 minute session in Mark’s new Spitfire sim. Barry, my instructor, took me through the basics of the cockpit and gave me some tips on how the Spit handles and what speeds I should be looking for at various stages of the flight. You can do many different scenarios from just take offs and landings (a challenge in itself) or shooting up Me109’s. Just do it. A great session !
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Mark
10/04/2018
Spitfire experience
Had a brilliant time a must for spitfire enthusiasts
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Andrew Fenn
10/02/2018
Spitfire Flight Simulator with Fly a Flight
What a fantastic experience! Captain Mark Lowen guided me through my flight with great skill. Thoroughly recommend this experience with Fly A Flight at Leighton Buzzard Garden Centre, Beds.
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Chris
17/10/2021
A great experience
Not as easier as it looks. A great experience, you felt like you were really flying over London 👍
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Andrew
03/09/2020
Fly A Flight
Enjoyed the experience from start to end. Friendly, helpful and knowledgeable staff. Authentic Spitfire cockpit and controls. Had fun trying to take off and land and then engaged in a dogfight with 6 enemy bombers. Will definitely go again and hope to experience other aspects such as the combat mode versus the Messerschmitt.
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David (W)
16/08/2020
Chocks away!
Brilliant day. Arrived a bit early but no problems. Shown in straight away (sanitised and masked) and guided through all the controls and options available by a knowledgeable young man neatly dressed in airline uniform. I did the basic flight with no issues and was commended in actually bring the aircraft back to base! Not bad for a beginner. Well worth anyone wanting to experience flight.
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Mike Gething
06/09/2019
Dakka, dakka, dakka ...
My flight experience was an air combat simulation with me in the Spitfire and my son in the Messerschmitt ... he won, three kills to my one! While not unfamiliar with flying, I found it took a good 15-20 minutes to get the "feel" of the controls and make the aircraft do what I wanted when I wanted it. Nevertheless, it was FUN, FUN, FUN. Then, all too soon, it was a two hour drive home for tea and medals!
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Sid
09/06/2019
A good day
A good experience. Well worth it.
Locations
Locations shown shouldn't be used for route planning
East of England
- Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire