Last year nearly 400 people flew in Aerobility's specially adapted aircraft or in a flight simulator from the charity's headquarters at Blackbushe Airport in Camberley, Surrey.

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The Swedish arms maker's stall at the Singapore Airshow has a full size simulator of their anti-aircraft defense system, the prosaically named RBS70 NG.

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In fact, thanks to Al, business aircraft flown by two-pilot, simulator-trained flight crews have achieved a standard equal to or better than the impeccable safety record set by scheduled air carriers.

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The flight simulator, for instance, cannot simply download the virtual aircraft from the design computers.

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The simulator is made from a genuine fuselage of a Piper Warrior aeroplane, identical to the training aircraft used by the charity.

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