Flight Simulator in Paris: our 7 best experiences

Passionate about the aeronautical world? This article is for you! Wanderlix presents the best flight simulators in Paris.

If the air space has always represented a passion for you, and you are looking forward to your private license to fly a plane, this article offers you an alternative: flight simulators to Paris .

Whether you're creating a first flight experience, or improving your skills before you jump into the big bath, Wanderlix offers you a selection of the best air activities in the Paris region.

Line planes, fighter planes, flight training courses and even internships to eliminate your fear of the aircraft: you will find in this article a multitude of experiences. Thus, you can offer (or offer to one of your loved ones) an unforgettable moment at several kilometers of altitude, without leaving the farmland! Ready for takeoff?

1. Flight Simulator Airbus A330 in Paris

This flight simulator experience in Paris offers you to leave your video game screens to spend a much more realistic experience: driving an Airbus A330. Become the captain of one of the largest line planes of the French company, and discover the sensations of the professional pilots in this latest generation simulator.

Choose your flight in a wide range of 24,000 airports, and take control of this aircraft over 60 metres long. After a 10-minute briefing, you will jump into the large bath and refine your techniques to not hurt anyone at the time of landing and take-off. You can even simulate breakdowns and emergencies for a little more adrenaline.

Similarly, for a revised rate upwards, you can go up to one hour of flight.

2. Private Airbus A320

Thanks to this flight simulator in Paris, you will take command of an Airbus A320 alongside a particularly pedagogue attendant. Accessible from 10 years old, this activity in the heart of Paris, in the 13th arrondissement, offers a light briefing before leaving for 45 minutes.

Here you can enjoy multiple takeoffs and landings, and can ask your attendant to add timeless difficulties during your flight. Likewise, a wide choice of airports will be offered so that all flights are different.

If your children are also interested in the experience, they will be able to accompany you. Indeed, the trainers agree that the trainers take their place on your knees during the experience. Who knows, this may develop a new vocation?

3. Virtual reality flight simulation in Paris

Here is an absolutely perfect first flight simulator experience for small budgets! Indeed, for this activity located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, it is not on a large simulator that you will take place. It is actually a virtual reality helmet that is offered to you, so that the experience is less intense and more classic.

The advantage? Here, you can choose at the last moment if you prefer to board a line plane, a hunter or become a real race pilot! Your instructor will then present your course on a map and explain the VFR flight bases. You will then take orders and become the commander of your dreams.

And if you enjoyed the activity, you can link directly to a second flight!

4. Online plane training

Back in the 13th arrondissement of Paris aboard the Airbus A320, but for a very different experience of the first! This time, it is not only a 45-minute flight that is offered to you, but a complete 9-hour flight training course, to prepare you for the private license of the pilots.

In this activity you will have the right to 4 sessions that you will obviously be able to spread over several days, in order to become a master in flight. Between briefings on air regulations, study of aerodynamic laws, safety rules and other learning of the means of navigation (maps, weather sensors, GPS...), you will need to participate in several theoretical courses throughout these sessions.

Of course, you will also train at many takeoffs and landings, as well as flights under all possible conditions. During your last session, you will take your place as Airbus A320 Commander, and will have to manage your crew throughout the flight. At the end of the course, you will receive your "Cast" degree.

You are now ready to jump the big step, and take real flying lessons.

5. F35 flight of hunting aircraft

Finish the quiet flights on the line planes, get ready to fight for adrenaline through this flight simulator in Paris! On board a F35 Lightning II, you are plunged into the ultimate realism of a hunting flight. At the command of the American aircraft, you must succeed in your mission. From takeoff to landing, you are the pilot on board. The impression of flying is great, and the realism of the incredible scenery in the sky Île-de-France !

The F-35 was designed by the Pentagon to be one of the most maniable planes of its generation, and the cockpit reproduces the characteristics of this aircraft. Speed printing is great, and the flights are totally different from those of the big line planes. With an HD screen offering a panoramic view at 180° and different flight modes (day, night, diverse weather), you carry out the mission that best suits you among monitoring, fighting, recognition...

For young people, know that the activity is available for 10 years!

6. Fear of flight

You, too, are you one of those who cling to the armrests of the aircraft until they are pulled out, every takeoff and landing? Your fear will ruin your departures and your vacation returns? So this flight simulator activity in Paris is all you need to remedy this.

Here, no one to tell you that the plane is the safest means of transport. Specialists will be there to accompany you in your approach, to help you understand your phobia and work to make it disappear. It is in two parts, theoretical and practical that you will finally get rid of this brake.

The first will present to you the characteristics of the different aircraft, their relation to the gravitational force, and will explain in particular all the solutions that the pilots have access to in the event of a timeless weather. After the theoretical training, you will be immersed in a plane simulator. It is the exact reproduction of an Airbus A330 cockpit with radar screens, controls, flight instruments, radio... You will therefore attend a flight you can no longer classical, and discover under what conditions are the pilots.

Believe us, you may be subjugated and soothed by the calm reigning in this place of the device.

7. Airproofing course

For this flight simulator in Paris to help you overcome your fear of the aircraft, you will find the same instructions as for the previous activity. On the other hand, this course is being further developed, since it is three two-hour sessions that are being dispensed.

You will therefore enter even more in the technical details of the aircraft and have the right to two flights: one under normal conditions, one under exceptional conditions. Thus, the reactions of the pilots will no longer have any secret to you, and you will be reassured by their skill levels to deal with all kinds of problems.