Flight Control HD & The iPad
 

A colleague from the pointy end has drawn my attention to an iPad game, Flight Control HD. In it, one directs coloured aircraft to the correctly coloured runway.

There are jets, red, a fast 4 engined fat one, and a slower, skinny 2 engined one. There's a little slow single, amber in colour, and blue helicopters. There's no altitude control, one taps the aircraft and traces the desired path on the iPad screen, then moves to the next target.

The wind changes, and one must change runways, however, and aircraft sequenced and accepted for a runway, continues to that runway despite wind changes.

Now I'm more accomplished at crashing the darn things than landing them. I'm not normally a game player but find the desire to do better, almost irresistible.

My Question; mainly (but not limited) to ATCOs, is do any of you play it and if so, how successfully? :}

If there is no altitude control it sounds like a kids game.

Quite possibly but we're all kids at heart. Right?

Depends who has the highest score!! :}

Capt Claret... Absolutely! There's another excellent kid's game on Google Earth where you can play at being a pilot.

Well my best was 130 but Yellow Snow`s must be nearly 3 times that however you`ll be pretty upset if you check youtube the highest scores at they are over 50,000.

But they were kids with too much time on their hands. I managed 182 on the carrier deck (that one includes fast jets rather than fast wide-bodies) but then it all ended rather badly...

HEATHROW DIRECTOR, ouch; I think. :\

I have it on my iPhone. Not played it in a while but it is a pretty good game.

Not on I excel at though. My record is about 50.

not one to show off but just over 1200 on the original level on the iphone!

As long as we're not showing off I got 1974 on the original level. Although I've never broken 160 on any of the others.

Keeps CTC up to speed with Air Traffic:D