Most non-pilots who want to fly a jet fighter decide to do so in Russia. However, there’s new, also interesting places coming up where flying jet is possible for everyone. In Europe alone, ordinary people can fly in a fighter jet - in the Czech Republic, France, Germany – even in Spain and Switzerland, there are flying jets available for everybody to take a ride.

As different as the locations may be, the jet available for flying is almost always the same type. Even though you can fly in a fighter jet such as the Venom and the Hunter, most jet fighters currently taking paying “passengers” are L-39. However, the L-39 is a perfect aircraft for flying jet: Two fully equipped cockpits make the flight in this jet fighter an experience for both the pilot and the "passenger". To fly a fighter jet is an unparalleled experience, and a plane like the L-39, designed to train pilots to fly in a fighter jets, is the ideal aircraft to do so.

Despite dreaming of it, many people don't know that flying fighter jets is possible for civilians. Up to today, a few hundred flight enthusiasts took the chance to fly in a jet as airforce pilots do. What do you need, if you want fly a jet fighter? To fly fighters, you don't need any prior flying experience. Jet flights for amateurs are carried out in two-seater aircraft, so you'll fly with a jet fighter instructor who will be in control during most parts of the flight such as starting, landing and crucial maneuvers. So if you're healthy and can afford the ride, you're good to go. To fly a jet fighter, there's remain two things to consider: Which jet fighter to fly and the available budget.

Let's first look at different locations to fly military aircraft. In general, there should be distinguished between light L-39 jets and heavy 3rd generation jet fighters such as the MiG-29 and MiG-31. If you look for the most advanced jets to fly, flying fighter jets in Russia is the way to go: Only there, the MiG-29 - designed to outperform the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18, is available for so-called demonstration flights. This means you can fly military aircraft that are in air force service around the world. If you are planning on flying fighter jets like the MiGs, keep in mind that these flights are not cheap: Supersonic flights in MiG-29 start at some 14000 USD. Because of ever-changing exchange rates and oil prices, the prices vary seasonally and annually. Specialized consulting companies such as MiGFlug.com or FlyFighterJet.com have agreements with key players of the defense industry and are therefore able to provide direct clients and travel agencies with "demonstration" flights in MiGs. Unlike in Russia, flights in American F-15, F-16, F/A-18 or even F-22 are generally unavailable to the public.

Fly L-39 jet – Flight in fighters are becoming affordable. Flying fighter jet has surely been a dream for many boys, who did not want to become an air force pilot to fly fighters?

Fighter jet-movies like Top Gun with Tom Cruise have surely contributed to that dream to fly jet fighters. The jet fighter-movie suggested that fly fighters is not only good fun for the air force pilot that is flying fighter jets, but also allows him to score easily at girls once landed the military jet fighter.

But even if that dream has become reality for some individuals: With extremely high prices for a jet flight, fly jet fighters has been mainly for businessman, physicians and alike. But that seems to be changing now: It was a dream for many that prices come down so that they can fulfill their wish to fly, L 39 flights are becoming affordable. This beautiful and highly agile ground attack fighter and trainer aircraft built by the Aero Vodochody Military Aircraft Factory in the former Czechoslovakia is not as expensive to operate as the big Russian fighters. This allows the operators to lower prices to fly L 39: Flights are therefore able for more ordinary individuals, as well as for smaller companies or groups.