You don't have to wait years and fly 100s of hours to gain valuable experience.

What is LOFT?
   Line Oriented Flight Training uses a realistic, simulated flight mission to expand your judgment and decision making skills. LOFT challenges you to handle unexpected but practical situations and to resolve problems. LOFT encourages you to exercise a variety of mental skills.

What is a scenario?
   A scenario is a scripted series of events that support the objective of the lesson. It involves simulated real-word incidents unfolding in real time. The consequences of your decisions during a scenario accrue and influence the remainder of the flight.

   We use LOFT to teach risk management, situational awareness and judgement in all initial, transition, recurrent, and flight instructor training.

Why LOFT?
   Pilot error continues to be the number one reason for accidents. Accidents are not normally caused because the pilot didn't know how to land or didn't know how to execute an instrument approach. Accidents normally happen because a poor decision was made. Why LOFT? To practice decision making during high-workload situations.

Spend one day in our sim and experience a life time of flying.
 

   You can have a full day of nothing but LOFT. In 6 hours of sim-flying, you will likely navigate through Florida, California, Colorado and New York - all without leaving the comfort of our training center.

   This is more than just training. It's an experience in stuff you don't want to do in the plane - but you're glad you did in the sim.

   The wrap around visuals are breathtaking climbing out of a small mountain strip. The motion pins you to the seat during the emergency descent. The full moon illuminates your cockpit above an overcast. Your heart rate accelerates with a missed ILS. It's only noon but your hands are sweaty and you're ready for lunch. The afternoon brings more ice, more thunderstorms and more mental exercise.

   Our flight simulator database contains all the airports and instrument procedures in the US. This provides the opportunity for a number of unique but realistic training scenarios. As a warm up, we begin with a FirstLook instrument approach into your home airport. When you are ready, your instructor will slowly introduce new instrument pilots to more advanced situations. And if you dare, the instructor can provide challenging situations to push even the most experienced pilots to the limit.

 In a full day of LOFT you may expect:

• Avionics failures of every kind. 
• Engine and engine component failures during critical phases of flight.
• Emergency descents.
• High altitude operations.
• Mountainous airports.
• Complicated SIDs and Stars.
• Real, but unusual approaches.
• Dead-stick approache/landing.
• Nasty, nasty weather.
• Complicated ATC situations
• Your customized request.

   Call or e-mail arlynn@aerotech.net and say "I want a Full Day of LOFT." Your investment is $525. You'll spend 8 hours with a seasoned instructor and 6 hours of the most challenging, but realistic flying that we could recreate from actual NTSB reports.