Fly the Jumbo.
The wooden airplane on the Build Log is not finished. This one is. Jumbo Flight School is a flight simulator that runs right here in your browser. It was built for one young pilot in Wisconsin who loves airplanes, and now the hangar door is open.
Free. No sign in. Best on a computer with a keyboard. On a phone, turn it sideways and fly with your thumbs.
How it was made.
A boy drew a jumbo jet. His dad asked a computer program to help make it real, and they took turns. Dad asked, the program wrote the code, and the boy flew it and found what was too hard. Three and a half minutes, for kids and their grown-ups.
The narrator, the music and the sound effects were made with AI. Dad's voice and the photos are real.
This is Larry.
Larry is the llama from the Build Log, where a real wool one is being made. He has never flown an airplane. He has the goggles anyway.
What is in the hangar.
Real places
Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Elkhart Lake, with the real lakes, roads and runways.
Today's real weather
The wind and the clouds come from the airport's own report, right now. Windy outside means windy in here.
Eight flights
A first solo, a trip to the big lake, landing practice, and an air race around Road America. By day or by night.
A line to follow
A blue line in the sky shows the way, and every landing is scored in feet per minute. Softer is better.
Log Jammin' Radio
Eighties music on 101.LOG, and a DJ whose studio keeps going wrong. The volume knob goes to eleven.
Fireworks
Fly the night race and the whole last lap is lit up. Cross the line and see what happens.
The shirts.
Every flight school has a shirt. Ours look like they came out of a drawer from 1983. These pictures are renders made from the artwork, not photographs. Real photos go up as soon as Dan can get one on his son.
Talking to Max.
In the video nobody touches a key. The pilot talks, and Max, the copilot in the right seat, listens, answers, and works the airplane: takes the controls, picks the music, reads the weather, calls the race.
That part is off in the open hangar, for a plain reason. Max is a live AI voice, and every minute of talking costs us about a dime. We measured it. We cannot pay that for the whole internet.
Everything else works. Max still makes every radio call, written on the screen instead of spoken.
Want the talking copilot?
If enough families want it, we will build accounts for grown-ups and turn the voice on. There is no form here and there never will be one for kids. A grown-up can tell us in one line:
hello@thelumberoutletgroup.comStraight talk. The game, its music, its sound effects and the radio DJ were made with AI, and none of the songs are anybody's real songs. In the video the pilot's voice is generated as well, so the flight could be filmed twice; what Max says back is live and was not scripted. The game keeps your logbook in your own browser and sends us nothing. Pressing play on the video loads it from YouTube. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Weather from the Aviation Weather Center.