British Airways has a $13 million flight simulator that taught us how to take off, fly, and land an airplane

• Business Insider spent an hour inside British Airways' Airbus A380 flight simulator.
• The carrier owns 16 simulators in total, which cost $13 million each. 
• Pilots spend around 50 hours training in a simulator before ever flying a real airplane. 

 

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We visited British Airways Technical Block A, which is home to 16 flight simulators making it the biggest flight simulator facility in the UK. 

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