A birthday, a wedding, a housewarming, or a promotion – status or intense feelings, no matter what is impelling you to find a suitable, noteworthy gift, you are by all means now bored of poking around the malls or gift stores, aren’t you? The large organizations, on the same note, are looking for newer ways to please their treasure clients or to reward their better-productive employees. Incidentally, are you an individual or a corporate looking for an unusual gift for an ultimate heartwarming? There’s an “adrenaline” gift idea to match the “jet age” modernity. Book a jet ride as a gift and the lucky whoever is getting it has in store delightful memories to be cherished the whole of his life.

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 fighters has been the dream of my life. Somehow, however, I had other interests when I was at the age at which one should prepare for becoming a pilot. The fascination for military aircraft and the wish to fly military aircraft has never vanished. When I grew older and made career, I often thought how it would be when I had chosen another way and became s pilot. Would I be luckier in the morning when driving to the airport to fly airplanes to fly to destinations far away? Would I have a better life as a fighter pilot, would I feel happier when I have to fly a military aircraft instead of driving to my office every morning? Would it make a big difference to fly airplanes as pilot instead of flying quite often on a business class seat?

Being able to fly airplanes and feel like a bird is a dream many people share. However, there’s a different class of aircraft available to fly. Many people think to fly airplanes ends at single-engine piston-engine aircraft. This widespread belief couldn’t be more wrong: Everybody can fly a true military aircraft and fly a jet fighter. Flying fighter jet isn’t harder than flying piston engine aircraft, but it’s surely much more of a thrill as G-Forces push your body to the limits while you fly a jet fighter.

Also, actually flying fighter jets isn’t hard – the hardest part in a jet flight is surely starting and landing. Since people who intend to fly military aircraft as civilians will be flying fighter jets used for training, they won’t fly a jet fighter alone but will be accompanied by an instructor who is flying fighter jets daily. Together with him, civilians fly in a two-cockpit jet fighter for 20 minutes or so. Therefore, the instructor is with them throughout the flight. This instructor will safely start and land the airplane and instruct the passenger how to fly airplanes – or, to be more precise, how to fly a jet fighter. After the instruction, the adventure in the flying fighter begins: the instructor starts the fighter, the jet taxies to the runway and eventually, the jet fighter takes off.