Thank you Fozzi for a great morning on the Lancaster sim. I really appreciated your calm and excellent teaching style. A full and packed experience and hugely enjoyable. Such a unique flying experience and run with such enthusiasm and knowledge.
Absolutely fantastic experience. Communication was excellent, booking was simple. The quality of the actual experience was outstanding, the guide was knowledgeable and professional and made the whole session fun for my 9 year old. Highly recommend We will be coming back for the spitfire experience.
Excellent experience. Instructor very knowledgeable and helpful. Pleasant experience all round
Brilliant experience . Everything explained really well by Fozzi who was really knowledgeable about the Lancaster . Great to feel like you were flying the plane and fun experience trying to fly under a bridge etc . Was fairly easy to book and as Im local to shoreham was easy to find . Great value lasted a lot longer than I expected.
What an excellent experience, Fozzi my instructor also a qualified pilot was great. Fozzi explained in great detail the two missions i would fly and the challenges i would face and then when i was seated in the pilots seat he went through the controls in even greater detail. The missions were to take off and fly from Fairford out towards the Severn estuary, fly under the first bridge at 50ft, then climb quickly over the next, the return flight had me flying under an air balloon before landing in a field. The next mission was to fly at the dams visited by the Dambusters, this mission was all at 100ft on the approach and 50ft at the dams this was extremely challenging.The experience is as life like as you can imagine, Fozzi was feathering the engines constantly as the copilot engineer would have done and his expertise in getting me out of trouble was amazing.The instruction and feedback duirng the experience was constant and made it very enjoyable.I can highly recommend this Lancaster experience and Fozzi for making it as good as it could be Absolutely Brilliant
Had a great time in the Simulator, the controles were precise, much different to a PC flight Sim, much more realistic. FOSSI the Sim Instructor was very knowledgeable and made the whole experience unforgettable.
Absolutely amazing experience would love to do again. The instructor was Brilliant and very patient. Thank you.
Fantastic experience and the person who took the session was so knowledgeable it made the experience. I thoroughly recommend this experience to anybody who is interested in flying old historic airplanes or interested in flying WW2 planes. I want to go again to enhance the first experience.
I have been a huge fan of the Lancaster bomber so this was a fantastic gift from my son. It did not disappoint and to have the opportunity to use this simulator is just great. The graphics are really good with the opportunity to see how you did with tasks in a replay mode E.g. flying under the Severn Bridge and watching your bombing run on the dams. Sadly I was hit by anti aircraft fire and didnt make it home having to crash land in a field
I had a fantastic experience, my instructor Peter kirkwood was excellent I would 100 recommend this experience.Thank you.
Fantastic experience lovely people
Amazing realistic experience. How they did that in 1944 just shows how brave they were
Thoroughly enjoyed the Lancaster experience, got to do the dambuster raid which was very difficult to master but for the experience of the trainer who helped out considerably making the whole thing a lot easier. Highlights just how difficult it was for our brave veterans who actually carried out the original raid on the dams. Loved every minute of it, recommend it to anyone
Very friendly people. A knowledgeable and skilled instructor who went the extra mile to make the experience fascinating and highly enjoyable.
The experience was really great, very engrossing. Having been in a Lancaster cockpit I can say it was very realistic. The staff were very welcoming and very professional. They evening made my wife and I a coffee. Great day out.
A most enjoyable experience with great tuition.I had the extended package and would thoroughlyrecommend this aswell. Lots of fun.
Very friendly instructor, with a well setup simulator.
Superb experience, wonderful instructor and an hour and a half of high intensity physical and mental strain. Trying to bomb the dams of the Ruhr was something else. How they did it for real, I shall never know. Anyone with an interest in Lancasters and WWII would absolutely love this. One point, getting to Shoreham airport was easy, but a sign or placard advertising the building and the simulator would save driving around for 10 minutes.otherwise review would have been 5 stars
Very good. Excellent staff. Simulator very good I realise for the whole thing to move about would be asking a lot.
We had a great time. We are both Lancaster enthusiasts, our fathers both having been associated with the aircraft. We have been lucky enough to have taxied and even flown in an actual Lancaster, but of course they dont let you touch the controls So this was a great opportunity to find out what it is really like to fly the Lanc. The simulator is an excellent full scale mockup of the cockpit of a Lancaster, with all the controls, dials and switches, most of which are functional. The view out front and to both sides is excellent, and the scenery very realistic. We were pretty familiar with the layout of the cockpit already, but our instructor Fozzy explained everything, including stuff we didnt know Then we took turns to fly the two simulation experiences under and over the Severn bridges and then at low level over two of the dams attacked in the Dambusters raid where we came under fire with Fozzy acting as flight engineer and navigator.Its not a full motion simulator, but the experience is very realistic and immersive, enhanced considerably by the very loud engine sounds, which shake the whole cockpit as they should. Above all, you are left with an accurate impression of how much work is involved in controlling this iconic aircraft. We only flew for about 1 12 hours each, but the mental concentration and physical activity involved certainly took its toll. You can only imagine how tiring it would be to fly for 56 hours at night while being shot at for real. Respect.A word of special thanks for our instructor Fozzy. He was friendly, helpful and very knowledgeable, and made the whole experience great fun, We both have some flying experience, so we knew the basics, but I am sure that with his guidance even absolute flying novices will have a great experience too.Highly recommended. One tip though the simulator is in a hangar without heating, so the cockpit can be quite cold also quite realistic. So dress up warm
A fantastic experience for my husbands special birthday.
Really enjoyable experience. Very tuned in and knowledgeable instructor who made the experience that more special. An emotional experience for me given my Fathers role in air crew in ww2 and this was fully taken into consideration in making my day even more memorable. Thx
Fantastic experience, definitely recommend it , very informative and helpful
Outstanding experience.Id rather sneeringly prejudged what I thought it would be thinking it might be a minor upgrade to Microsoft Simulator. Instead it was a fully immersive experience with a copilot, doing a training run then the Dambusters raid. You fully feel all the complexities of flying the Lancaster with excellent assistance from your copilot. Id wholly recommend it.
Great experience. My instructor was very informative.
Excellent experience in every way
Fantastic fun experience. The simulator is immersive and it really made me think I was flying my favourite aircraft. Blay, the instructor, was very knowledgeable and guided me expertly through the missions. Brilliant
A great fun experience led by a very passionate and informative Fozzie. Let your imagination run and it feels like you are actually flying the mighty Lancaster, reenacting the Dambusters famous raid over the dams at 50 feet The simulator gave me a true sense of how the original bombers, along with their payload, would actually have handled and how amazing the pilots and crew were at such a young age. Great fun for two hours.
What a great experience. Very realistic and exciting.Very nice staff and I highly recommend.If your into Lancasters its excellent
Truly was a fantastic experience. Best part for me was coming away with a deeper understanding and appreciation of what our brave Bomber crews went through for us. It was also just a great experience. Nice and friendly staff added to the day. Would recommend to anyone with an interest in this fantastic Bomber or the history it made.
Absolute brilliant experience. I flew the Lancaster at 30 ft under the severn bridge. My claim to fame. A total rush to experience what our very brave boys did when they flew over the dams. I will never forget the experience. Thank you xx
This was a memorable experience. The Lancaster simulator cockpit was accurate and with CGI , the visual screens ,and simulated instruments and sound gave a thrilling immersive experience. Flying the Lancaster felt so real it even swung to the left and I had the impression of a heavy aircraft and its inertia.My instructor was a great mentor , flight engineer and navigator . I will long remember and savour my two flights . Flying the Dans raid in daylight was the stuff of dreams Totally recommended
Fantastic experience for my father flying the Lancaster bomber which his brother piloted and died in during ww2. The team were lovely and Fozzy was really patient and nurturing through the instruction
Darren Frampton
18 July 2025
The experience was fantastic far exceeded my expectations and my instructor was very good clear and concise in his instructions whilst putting me at ease and boosting confidence simultaneously.
John Wells
22 August 2025
I had an amazing time. It was a birthday gift from my wife. Getting hold of the controls again was so familiar. I flew a dak in the air force. The controls and view took a bit of getting used to but once up there it was like second nature. I also flew the mission. Ended with a force landing in a field but clipped some trees so that wasnt a successful landing though the mission was completed. Highly recommend this for any flying enthusiast.
Dave heathfield
22 August 2025
Absolutely brilliant experience, Fozzy was an excellent instructor, to find out how difficult it was to fly a Lancaster bomber has opened a whole new level of love and respect for the many young men that sacrificed themselves to give us our freedom, I would recommend that you consider doing this for yourselfThank you into the blue
Great experience. Ive sat in a real Lancaster before and the simulator cockpit is very similar. The controls in flight have the delayed response of the real thing as well, so not easy. Id like to have another go
Paul Hunt
04 November 2025
Fabulous experience Blay was our host, he gave great instructions and also made it fun, loved the chance to do the DamBusters attack and made me admire the real 617 boys all the more. If youre in to WW2 this is a must
Nicholas Bateman
20 November 2025
This was an amazing experience, and made me realise how challenging it was to the young pilots who were flying Lancasters night after night as thats when they flew most of their missions. Its worth reading Guy Gibsons book Enemy Coast Ahead as youll appreciate the difficulties the pilots faced every day especially when you have flown the Lancaster yourself. The instructor was excellent, and made the whole experience very memorable.
What a brilliant day, my wife got this for my 60th birthday gift and it didnt disappoint The simulator is far more realistic than imagined and I came away with even more respect for the young airmen of WW2 who flew these machines. Im so glad Fozzi was there to explain everything and correct my errors resulting in a very memorable experience.
John Holmes
16 April 2026
An excellent afternoon with the Lancaster Bomber Flight Simulator. Fozzi. the instructor took me through the missions, the aircraft, its controls and instrumentation. He also assessed my previuos flying experience and noted where I might find differences and explained how to manage them.The first flight was structured to familiarise me with the aircraft, its controls and its handling. This started with a basic takeoff, climb, then to straighht and level flight and progressively built until we flew under the Severn Bridge and finished in a landing.The second flight was the 617 Dambuster mission on the Ruhr Dams. I was talked and coached into successful attack profiles on the Mohne Dam.This is the perfect gift for the Aviation Geek in your life, at the end I was presented with a certificate and mug to remember the afternoon by.
Ronnie Booker
03 July 2026
Wow What a fabulous experience never thought I would have to use as much concentration in a simulated flight It tested my understanding and appreciation of those young men who did this for real. Fozzie, the flight engineer was brilliant and guided me through the flight plans and the skills needed to coax this enormous flying beast to the varying points of interest, testing me all the way to get me to think about what I needed to be doing, rather than he do it for me. I am exhausted but still reliving the experience, something I will never forget. Would I do it again yes. Would I recommend it yes. Does my wife want a go yes Brilliant is the only superlative to use here Thank you.
An excellent experience and thoroughly enjoyed. Prior to take off there was a very comprehensive pre flight briefingtraining session and the flight itself offered a range of varied opportunities to test ones skills and understand the challenges faced by Lancaster pilots. A special thank you to Fozzi who guided me through the entire process with patience and calm professionalism.
Peter Bennett
03 July 2026
Fantastic experience, the realism of the simulation is brilliant and really gives you an insight into what the young men of WW2 would have experienced. The instructor Fozzy was very informative and helped make the whole experience so much better, many thanks to him.
