Flight Control

A game to get hooked on!

By: Lucky13Seven

It's really worth the price of only a dollar. This is one of those games where if you need to kill some time then this what you can do. Nothing too amazing about it, but you can still get addicted to it.

Mr.

By: Fast Hornet 919

The best game out there!

Wow

By: shortstuf435

I don't no how anyone wouldn't like this game this is the best app out there

An absolute must!!

By: duck_butter

Let me put it this way..... I purchased my I-Pod Touch for THIS game! I know, call me insane. I didn't want to go to AT&T to get the I-Phone and I already have 2 other I-Pods for music. Although I've seen other cool apps before that I liked, this game is the one that actually made me walk into the Apple store the next day and buy the I-Pod Touch so that I could play this game. At a .99 price tag, Flight Control is an absolute steal! I paid $300 for mine, lol! Deceptively simple and highly addictive...BEWARE!!

Not that Fun

By: realkuhl

A friend recommended this to me - so I got it. It's okay but kind of boring. Graphics are simple, wish there was more variety instead of just looking over an airport keeping little icons from hitting each other..... ability to change altitude ?

Fun game

By: Spudinator

Wicked fun and time consuming in the good way. cannot get this much entertainment for this price. Also if you are having problems with peer2peer gamimg and if it says bluetooth not availablt go to settings>general>bluetooth than turn on and you xan detect devices

Sheer brilliance.

By: Spoinzy

Many moons ago, when I saw "Flight Control" at number one, I thought to myself, "Directing airplanes? How much fun could THAT be?"

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By: mojo ben

Flight Control is sort of a time management game but not exactly. Instead of doing a bunch of different tasks at one time, you have one single, but extremely difficult, task. It is to direct four different types of aircraft into three different runways. This is accomplished by drawing a line from the aircraft to its landing station. The different colored landing stations correspond to the different colored aircraft. For example, blue aircraft need to land in the blue landing station. After awhile, you end up with many aircraft flying in all different directions on your screen as you desperately try to direct them to the correct landing station. The game ends when two aircraft crash into each other. At the main menu you can click “stats” to look at… well, your stats of course. Some include how many aircraft you have landed, your high score and even which kind of aircraft you have crashed the most. There are 8 different aircraft and three different maps so you wont get bored for a long time to come! This is an amazing pick up and play game for any person.

A solid app.

By: mendter

I think they've fixed it. It has enough features and levels to actually be entertaining for a while. Plus you'll keep playing to keep your score on the leaderboards.

Best app in the store, hands down.

By: OldDaedalus

I held off on getting this app for a while - I couldn't justify spending a buck on a game that seemed to be so simple and repetitive. Instead, I bought Pocket God. (Big mistake. Don't believe the hype.) Disappointed with that purchase, I almost didn't buy Flight Control, fearing that it would be more of the same - pointless, mindless dross that got old a minute after I had installed it. Instead, I haven't been able to put this thing down.

Amazing!

By: Big Proch

This game is soooooo much fun!!! Anyone who isn't sure about his game trust me, it is unreal. It is so addictive. But there are some flaws that would make it so much better (which is pretty hard to do) if they were fixed/added:

Love it

By: gamer 123

So fun

Great, except for one thing....

By: Can it b more obvious?

This game is great, very simple, very addictive. But I think it's lacking one thing, consistency. With this game every small yellow plane travels the same speed, every red plane travels the same speed, every blue copter as well. Also every corosponding runway is set and does not change in anyway throughout the game. So it seems this game is very consistent. So why do the planes have such a vearying landing zone? When given identicle successfull landing routes, one plane will land the second it hits the runway. The second will go halfway down the runway before it is out of play. This is very strange to me, and I have yet to find any consistancy or reason for this. If EVERYTHING was set in this game, it would be 100% fair, because everyone would be cinsistant with the next player, not dealing with this random rule, please fix.

Great but needs update

By: Angry271234567890

It could use more levels and planes

Awesome.

By: Brack50

The best application I've purchased.

Very cool

By: Thatguy4268

Really cool game

Great game!!!!

By: CENTRAL FLORIDA TRACON F11

Great game from day one! Needs to have lives, different airports, levels, some obstructions like clouds or high buildings or restricted areas, less helos LOL, etc. It's a great game and I can't wait for an update, hopefully soon!!

Great

By: ATController

I giggled like a 5 year old playing this game, and I am a 50 y/o air traffic controller. Great bargain.

Frustrating game

By: Kenny@southpark

This game seems fun at first, but becomes frustrating soon. Aircrafts tend to crash into each other, and new comers always come across the flight paths you already set. With extremely luck you can score more than 50 points. But most of the time the upper cap is around 30. Makes me want to throw away my iphone most of the time after crashes and crashes. Buy this game if you only have like 5 minutes to play. You won't go far anyway, and don't even try to play again or you find youself in the same score after an hour. Hope the author can adjust the algorithm in later releases.

Can be fun, but very frustrating

By: mmunz

Looks to be a fun game, but can be disappointing because it does give you a chance to build your skills. Within minutes, you have 6 planes in your airspace and you're still trying to figure out how to land your first one. Really needs some levels that start easy and build in difficulty. It has potential if the author cares to make it better.

Needs quite a bit of improvement

By: MMXPX

This app is not developed to the level it should be. It is missing the following: different maps, different levels, and different speeds. In addition, it needs the following improvements... there needs to be more runways for objects. Sense most of the objects are of the larger planes, there needs to be more runways like in other, larger airports. The screen is really small and, in short time, the screen is filled with aircraft to the point where most won't be able to keep up. There should be different levels so people can build their way up. In addition, this "one life" thing needs to change. Instead, decrease points. Let the object be to get the highest score versus most landings, and let us rank our scores on the Internet so, through the app, we can see how we all rank. In fact, to make it easier for the novice, give advance UI information and controls so it is easier to get the planes to line up and circle around the runway, like in real life. In addition, the ability to foresee where the planes will be in a future time to avoid collisions. Though this will make the game too easy, but would make for a tutorial or a beginner mode. However, this feature should be optional and off by default. Can't make the game too easy. Also, in reality, all these planes would be much further apart and there would be more room for planes to circle. There has to be a way to recreate that in a game.

Flyslow

By: Notbadgamr

Needs levels and slower jumbos.

The entire game should be rethunk

By: Wiiareonfire

Here's why: One map One difficulty One life One level No power-ups or upgrades That doesn't seem much like a game, does it? Add more maps, possiblly deduct points for a crash, add seperate levels, have power ups, like faster or slower planes. Put in multiple difficulty levels, Novice, Advanced, and Professional. I guess my point is that there's too much room for improvement. Edit: I bumped my rating to a 1 because this game is just unplayable. I can only get to 47 (My average is about 20) before there are too many of one aircraft. There should be multiple of one kind of runway. Maybe side by side. Definitely more than one helipad. All of the helicopters I ever see come from the far side of the screen. This game might get a better rating with an update or two.

Get's boring quite quickly

By: Alltogether

Not a long shelf life amongst my apps.

Boring

By: The 5 Z's

Not fun gets boring fast. Expect it to be free all u do is drag your finger. Ive bought over 25 games for a dollar and this is in the bottem 5

Great game but needs updates to add to content

By: Bony jean

This game will give you about an hour or two of fun before you get bored but it is definitley worth be money btw pocket god is just a little better because of of content (update a week) but Is only good for short bursts of fun Ps.you need more airports to choose from to make it more difficult.

Idk why its #1

By: EpicGAK

Fun but gets old SUPER fast... Really repetitive and boring...

Need more levels

By: The Jazz Listener...

This is a good game but it needs more levels. Starts off with too many plains at a time. Give it a beginer level so players can get the hang of it.

Controlled chaos!

By: Hatrick208

Great fun and well worth the price. I would make a horrible ATC in real life, and this game confirms it! Starts out easy and quickly becomes very challenging. Great, easy control. Fun game!

Fun at first, quickly not

By: Mailmon

Needs gaming levels, needs parallel runways, needs to permit planes to be sent off screen to return later to pattern, needs an approach area much larger given the heavy traffic volume that quickly builds up, needs ALTITUDE assignments as well as heading, etc., etc., etc. This game was fun for the first 15 minutes and now I don't play it at all anymore. That stated, graphics are very good, action is solid, there's a lot of potential here and I hope we're just seeing the first of many releases. I'd even pay for upgrades if some of the ideas I stated (which are necessities for ATC) are put in place. But gaming levels are essential because without them one of the fundamental game premises--the positive hit a player gets for playing more and improving--is quickly lost because no one can manage the number of objects in the field of play within 10 minutes, especially when new ones "randomly" fly in from nowhere into your traffic. It's not realistic, it's not survivable, and thus currently it's not fun. So, okay, Firemint, good job, you threw down the gauntlet... now let's see how good you really are.

Boring

By: daisydoodle15

Really boring, needs other features.

I thought it was boring

By: Theboss17

Boring

Not fun

By: gdonald

This doesn't work so well for people without tiny fingers. It's very difficult to aim.. by the time you get close you're covering the runway.

What's the point!?

By: BravesWillWin

All u do is fly the planes to their specific runway. I got bored the first two minutes into this game, do not buy even with discount

Addictive

By: Redceawl

Highly addictive! I can't stop playing. As a real airline pilot, I think this game is really niffty. Not realistic at all, but itsnit supposed to be. Waiting for more airports and challenges! Best dollar you can spend.

Great

By: Romoisjedi

A lot of fun for only 99 cents!!! Some different levels would be great and maybe the option to keep the music going I dig it! All in all a great fun game!

Fantastic! Addictive! Fun!

By: thehack

What a wonderful gem! How can something this simple in concept be so much fun? You'll find yourself saying "Just one more game", time and time again.

Boring

By: russpattykenzie

Boring, repetitive, humdrum...etc. I don't get the 5 star reviews for this game. It grows stale FAST and has no variety to gameplay whatsoever.

Unsanely fun

By: tumblemonster

This is the best game on in the AppStore! It's simple concept is incredibly addicting. The object of the game is to land all four types of aircraft, each with different flight speeds sizes, without crashing them into each other. As you progress, the skies fill up! The controls are simple and fast. Great game!

beg to differ

By: matttttttttttmlllll

the game has a good concept but it hets very boring after 5 minutes. if more game modes were added i could definately rate a 4 or 5. please add more game modes!

Awesome!!!!

By: Joe, Ft. Lauderdale

Flight Control is awesome!!! The object of the game is to safely land everything that comes at you by touching the object and creating a "flight path" with your finger. Sounds easy, but the game picks up and before you know it, you have 10 objects in the air to land and no space to put em'!!! Watch out, because they come from every edge of the screen. More airports and a global high score list would make this one of the best .99 cent games out there. Get it while it is on sale. Great job!!!!

Love at first flight

By: Cyong

Simplistic yet complex, addictive yet frustrating. Much like a life companion, the pain and pleasure of the encounter is worth it. The only thing that I would like to see is perhaps some further options like multiple runways of the same type, or just a new feature of low fuel airplanes that you need to get in fast. Great application, and worth every penny.

Stellar!

By: QueenOpal

Nothing more to say other than this game is a PLEASURE. Its aesthetically pleasing well designed retro feel coupled with simple gameplay that hides a richly rewarding and insanely addictive experience makes for a top tier iPhone game...it has quickly become my most played game - and I download MANY. Kudos to the developer - you really struck the perfect balance here. My top score as of the writing of this is 152 - how do I compare??

Need more

By: z21

Love the game but please need update plaese add something more to make it even more fun thanks

Excellent game but lacks much-needed gameplay structure

By: reindeerhelmet

I'll preface this by emphasizing how addictive this game is. However, because of its total lack of structure it gets extremely frustrating and I end up wanting to play it less and less after each game ends. This is primarily because it takes far too long to get back up to where you lost -- the point of difficulty at which you can still compete comfortably. So you can play a 5 minute game, lose because 4 or 5 jumbo jets pop onto the map at the same time in the same part of the screen, start over, and then spend 4 minutes getting back up to the exact same point. In most cases those 4 minutes have been pretty wasteful as they are usually very repetitive and predictable. The last 20% of gameplay time in each game is where the challenge is.

Promising. I'm hooked!

By: vector4insanity

After 15 min. I was hooked. I'm an ATC at the busiest TRACON on the planet (SCT), and this game has potential.

I love it!

By: rmsutton

I've been playing this game for all of 10 minutes and I just had to let everyone know how wonderful this game is. The controls are intuitive and the game play is amazing. After the very first swipe of my finger to direct craft, I was immediately hooked! This game is unique, nothing like anything else I’ve seen in the AppStore.