Friday 05 - Day One!

It’s day one of the Global Flight Simulator Challenge, raising money for disabled flying charity Aerobility to buy their own state-of-the-art disabled adapted flight simulator to help train disabled pilots. Over the next ten days, a hundred pilots and celebrities will be flying the simulator around the world to raise money for Aerobility, and pick up a new Guinness World Record on the way round!

Today’s flights start from our Blackbushe UK base, through France and on to Italy. Navigating from Paris to Toulouse, then east to Nice and across the Mediterranean to Rome misses out the Alps – and a lot of unpredictable mountain weather too.

Today’s pilots and when they fly (all times UK BST):

1    11.00 - 11.20 Gerald Howarth MP

2    11.25 - 11.45 Steve Morley  RedAir

3    11.50 - 12.10 Haywards Aviation  

4    12.15 - 12.30 Peter Taylor  

5    12.35 - 12.55 Peter Taylor
6    13.00 - 13.25 Willie Walsh  CEO IAG 

7    13.30 - 13.50 Willie Walsh  CEO IAG
8    13.55 - 14.15 Joe Pasquale  

9    14.20 - 14.40 Robert Scutts  Aerobility

10  14.45 - 15.00 Aerobility
11  15.05 - 15.20 Richard Deakin  CEO NATS

12  15.30 - 18.20 Al Bridger  Chief Pilot BA

13  18.30 - 20.55 Brian Catchpoole  Aerobility

14  21.05 - 23.15 Simon Jeffs  Orange Aero

15  23.25 - 02.00 Christopher Cheetham  Supermassive Games

Information about Aerobility and the Challenge is easy to find on the right of your screen. Just a little of your support can make a big difference to disabled lives - click on the blue ‘donate’ button for options, from texting just five pounds upwards, the sky’s the limit!