Flight Simulator Timer
Pick a route, take your boarding pass, and study for exactly as long as the flight takes. A live map moves underneath you while the countdown runs — in full screen if you want the whole desk to disappear.
Flight Timer · Focus Flight · Full-Screen Study Timer · 47 Real Airports
Focus Flight
Your study journey awaits
Distance
8,927 km
Est. flight
10h 39m
Miles
5,547 mi
Session length
Adjust focus time
No sign-up, no timer limits, completely free
How the flight simulator timer works
Three steps from picking a city to wheels up. Nothing to install.
Pick your route
Choose a departure and destination from 47 real airports. The timer works out the great-circle distance and how long that flight actually takes, then sets your session to match.
Take your boarding pass
You get a real-looking pass with a flight number, gate and seat for that exact route. It is the small commitment ritual that makes the session feel booked rather than optional.
Fly while you study
The cabin drops into view, terrain starts moving underneath you and the countdown begins. Push it to full screen, turn on the engine hum, and do not land until the clock runs out.
Why a flight beats a bare countdown
A plain timer gives you a number that is falling. Nothing about it tells you where you are in the session, and nothing about stopping early feels like a decision. That is why the last ten minutes of a 45-minute block are so easy to abandon.
A flight fixes that by giving the session a destination. You are not trying to survive 50 minutes, you are flying Paris to Barcelona, and quitting halfway now means diverting rather than simply stopping. It is a small reframe, and it is the whole reason flight-themed focus tools work for people who bounce off Pomodoro apps.
The moving map does the other half of the job. Peripheral motion that never demands a decision gives your eyes somewhere to rest between paragraphs without pulling you into a feed. Look up, watch a river pass under the wing, look back down at the page.
Long-haul routes exist for the sessions a Pomodoro timer handles badly: past papers, essays, problem sets and finals-week revision, where breaking every 25 minutes costs more concentration than it restores. Short hops are there when you genuinely want a 25-minute brick.
What is inside the flight deck
Built as a study tool first and a flight second.
A live moving map, not a static circle
Terrain, rivers, roads and town lights drift past underneath the aircraft the whole way. There is always something happening, so glancing up does not break your focus the way a frozen progress ring does.
Full-screen flight deck
One tap fills the entire screen with the flight. On desktop it uses real browser full screen; on iPhone and iPad it expands to an edge-to-edge overlay, because Safari has no element full-screen API.
Honest flight maths
Distance is a great-circle calculation from actual airport coordinates, and the duration adds a realistic 30 minutes of taxi, climb and descent on top of cruise time at 880 km/h.
Cabin sound, generated live
The engine hum is synthesised in your browser, so nothing streams and nothing is downloaded. It is filtered brown noise, which is the same class of sound people use to mask an open-plan room.
A clock that cannot drift
The countdown works from a target timestamp instead of counting frames, so it stays accurate even if you switch tabs, lock the phone or your browser throttles background timers.
Route matching for short sessions
Want 25 minutes? Tap the preset and the timer finds the real route whose flight time is closest, so a Pomodoro block becomes a genuine short hop instead of an arbitrary number.
Popular routes and how long you will study
Every duration below is what the timer will actually count: great-circle distance at 880 km/h plus 30 minutes of taxi, climb and descent. Pick the route that matches the work in front of you.
| Route | Distance | Study time | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Munich (MUC) → Zurich (ZRH) | 261 km | 48m | A single problem set |
| Amsterdam (AMS) → London (LHR) | 370 km | 55m | One past paper, start to finish |
| Paris (CDG) → Barcelona (BCN) | 858 km | 1h 29m | A lecture recording plus notes |
| London (LHR) → Rome (FCO) | 1,443 km | 2h 08m | A full chapter with active recall |
| Dubai (DXB) → Delhi (DEL) | 2,183 km | 2h 59m | An exam-length mock paper |
| New York (JFK) → Los Angeles (LAX) | 3,974 km | 5h 01m | A deep-work morning |
| London (LHR) → New York (JFK) | 5,540 km | 6h 48m | A long afternoon of revision |
| Paris (CDG) → Seoul (ICN) | 8,927 km | 10h 39m | A full revision day |
| Singapore (SIN) → New York (JFK) | 15,339 km | 17h 56m | Finals-week marathon |
FocusFlight vs StudyFetch vs Lorea Flight Simulator Timer
All three help you sit down and work, but only one of them is completely free. FocusFlight is a flight-themed focus app you install and upgrade. StudyFetch is an AI study platform with a limited free tier and a subscription for real use. The Lorea flight simulator timer is a free web page with nothing behind a paywall — and the study tools that come after the session are free too.
| Feature | Lorea Flight Simulator Timer | FocusFlight | StudyFetch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price for the full timer | Free, forever | Free download, paid premium unlock | Limited free tier, paid subscription |
| Completely free, no paid tier to unlock | Yes | No | No |
| Works without an account | Yes | No | No |
| No download or app store install | Yes | No | Yes |
| Unlimited sessions and session length | Yes | No | No |
| Real airport routes with distance maths | Yes | Yes | No |
| Boarding pass before every session | Yes | Yes | No |
| Animated moving terrain while flying | Yes | No | No |
| Full-screen flight deck | Yes | No | No |
| Generated cabin sound | Yes | Yes | No |
| Turns your notes into courses, quizzes and mock exams | Yes | No | Yes |
Comparison reflects the publicly listed plans and features of each product in 2026. Third-party pricing and features change — check their sites for the current position. Lorea’s flight simulator timer is free with no account, no session limits and no premium tier.
Flight simulator timer FAQ
What is a flight simulator timer?+
A flight simulator timer is a study timer dressed as a flight. Instead of setting an abstract 45 minutes, you pick a departure and destination, receive a boarding pass, and study for as long as that flight would take. A moving map and countdown run while you work, so the session has a start, a middle and a landing.
Is the Lorea flight simulator timer free?+
Yes, completely. There is no account, no download, no session cap, no watermark and no premium tier holding features back. It runs entirely in your browser. This is the main difference between it and flight-themed focus apps that ask you to unlock premium.
How does the timer work out the flight time?+
It calculates the great-circle distance between the two airports from their real coordinates using the haversine formula, divides by a cruise speed of 880 km/h, then adds 30 minutes for taxi, climb and descent. That is why a Paris to Seoul flight lands around ten and a half hours rather than a round number.
Can I run the flight timer full screen?+
Yes. Press Full screen on the flight deck and it fills the whole display. Desktop browsers use the native Fullscreen API; on iPhone and iPad, where Safari does not support element full screen, it expands into an edge-to-edge overlay instead. Press Escape or Exit full screen to come back.
Does the countdown keep running if I switch tabs or lock my phone?+
Yes. The timer stores the moment your flight is due to land and compares it to the current time, so it never loses seconds to background throttling. Come back after ten minutes away and the clock will already show the correct remaining time.
What route should I pick for a 25-minute study session?+
Tap the 25 min preset and the timer picks the shortest real hop it has, such as Munich to Zurich, then counts your 25 minutes. You can also choose any route yourself and nudge the focus time in five-minute steps, from five minutes up to a full ultra-long-haul day.
Is this an actual flight simulator?+
No, and that is deliberate. It is a focus timer with a simulated top-down flight view. There are no controls to fly, nothing to crash and nothing to learn, because anything you have to operate would compete with the thing you are actually meant to be doing, which is studying.
Does it work on iPhone, Android and iPad?+
Yes. It is a web page, so it works in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge on phones, tablets and desktops. The map animation respects the reduced-motion setting, so if you have that enabled the terrain holds still and only the countdown moves.
How is this different from a Pomodoro timer?+
A Pomodoro timer chops work into fixed 25-minute bricks. A flight is a single continuous block with a destination, which suits long revision sessions, essays and past papers where stopping every 25 minutes costs you more than it saves. You can still fly short hops if you prefer Pomodoro-length sessions.
Is there sound, and do I need headphones?+
Cabin sound is off until you switch it on. It is a low engine hum generated in your browser rather than an audio file, so it starts instantly and loops forever. Headphones help it mask background noise, but it works on speakers too.
Landed? Now make the material worth flying for
The timer keeps you in the seat. Lorea turns your PDFs, slides and notes into the course, quizzes and mock exams you actually work through while the map moves.
Turn your notes into a course