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.

As company specializing in arranging flights in fighter jets to non-pilots, we find ourselves often confronted with interested clients worrying about the risks involved in flying jet. Everybody knows that jet pilots who regularly fly a fighter jet are athletes who spend a significant time of their work in gyms, strengthening both their body and their mind. Why, people ask, can john doe also fly in a fighter jet and even control the aircraft himself without such training and background?

The answer has a simple and a more complex part. Let's explore the simple part first. Basically, clients who pay to fly a fighter jet are, of course, not alone in the air. A seasoned test pilot or instructor will fly the fighter jet, and it's him who is flying the jet in crucial parts of the flight such as taking off or landing the jet fighter. Also, should there be an emergency such as a bird-strike or a technical failure while clients fly a jet fighter, it's the pilot's duty to land the aircraft safely. Still, the normal part of a sortie - that is, the jet flying in blue sky under good weather conditions - represents an ideal scenario to fly in a fighter jet. During such parts, there is not much skill needed to keep the aircraft going, hands down.

The 4th-generation jet fighter aircraft Mikoyan MiG-29 was designed and developed by the Mikoyan design bureau in the USSR as a replacement for the MiG-23 Flogger for the Soviet Airforce. The MiG-29 Fulcrum air superiority jet fighter has been developed during the 1970s and joined the Air Force of the Soviet Union from 1983 at the well-known Kubinka airbase near Moscow.

To put it bluntly: A mig flight is not available at a bargain price. MiG-31 flights to the stratosphere cost dependent of the jet flight duration up to EUR 20,000. And mig 29 flight is with about half the price for the short mig 29 flight program still expensive. Fly jet fighters is something that is not affordable for anybody: Many customers are top managers, entrepreneurs, or multinationals on the look for a truly unique incentive program for key staff or key account customers.

Many companies search for new motivation programs and incentives to reward top employees as well as key clients. Common incentive programs, however, suffer from a "been there, done that" phenomenon. Let's face it: Would you be excited about an invitation to go go-karting, maybe for the tenth time in your life?

To fly a jet fighter, however, is something truly unique and exciting. As of yet, only a handful of people know that it's legally possible in many countries to fly a fighter jet - and that there's not even a pilot's license needed to fly a jet fighter. To fly a fighter jet is a one-day package that doesn't need further preparation. How is that?

Just like a combat pilot rookie, clients of FlyFighterJet.com, an agency specialized in representing military and warbird jet operators, enter a two-seater jet fighter which is usually used for training. Such fighters are equipped with two similar cockpits - one for the pilot/instructor and one for the trainee. When you fly fighter as a non-pilot, crucial events of the flight - such as take-off, landing and complex maneuvers - are being carried out by instructors who fly fighters every day. For these instructors, often combat veterans themselves, to fly a jet fighter is as easy as driving a car.