Visitors to the Billy Bishop Home and Museum in Owen Sound this summer really will be flying by the seat of their pants.
The Museum is having a state of the art plane simulator constructed that will allow visitors to experience the same kind of flight that Billy Bishop did during the first world war.
Museum Manager Mary Smith says it is being built by an airline pilot who has built similar simulators for the National War Museum in Ottawa.
She says this will not be like using the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator game on a computer, but will include an actual cockpit, fuselage, rudder peddles and single stick controller.
All the cockpit features will be connected to a computer and a big screen TV to give the person the feeling of actually flying the Nieuport 17 fighter that Bishop used during he first part of the war.
Smith says the wing and fuselage will be covered in fabric just like the original World War one aircraft and that will show people just how fragile these planes really were.