A free flight simulator in your browser for new pilots. Fly a club trainer from the pilot box with your keyboard or your own radio, and practise every flying item of the BMFA 'A' certificate and BPC until you're ready for the real thing - then move on to the 'B' with an aerobatic model.
Flown from the pilot box, like at your club fieldEach BMFA test item with the examiner's notesA chase view for your very first flights
Use your own radio - plug it in by USB and practise on the sticks you'll really fly with (FrSky, RadioMaster, Jumper, Spektrum and more).
Practise each test item with the examiner's notes, then do a full test run and get a test sheet.
Learning aids for complete beginners: self-levelling, gentler controls and slower time - switch them off as you improve.
Save your sim sessions to your training record when you choose to, and the items you practise show on your BMFA certificates page.
What you can practise
Meet the controls · Straight and level, then turns
Take off, fly a circuit and overfly the take-off area
Figure of eight, crossover in front of you, constant height
Rectangular circuit and approach, land on the designated area
Take off again, circuit and overfly the take-off area
Rectangular circuit at constant height, opposite direction
Simulated dead stick landing from about 200 ft
'B' certificate - fixed wing
Figure of eight, flown more accurately than the 'A'
One inside loop, into wind
One outside loop down from the top (a bunt), downwind
Two consecutive rolls into wind
Two consecutive rolls downwind, opposite direction
Stall turn, turning away
Three-turn spin, into wind
Rectangular approach and hazard-avoidance go-around below 10 ft
Rectangular circuit, opposite direction, no higher than 40 ft
Rectangular approach and land within a 30 m box
Works on a Windows or Mac computer - with the keyboard, or your radio by USB in Chrome, Edge or Firefox (not Safari) - and on phones and tablets turned sideways with on-screen thumb sticks. Gliders, helicopters and multirotors are coming soon.
Practice in the Trainer Sim - not an official BMFA test. Only a BMFA examiner can test you and sign you off.
