Airport Simulator

apunen 767 points 152 comments July 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (19 comments)

mattimatti

Fun to play, I like it puts a close by airport on the high-score board.

TechSquidTV

Both me and my friend have been racing eachother to create airport simulators. Wildly on-topic for me.

pir8life4me

Fun. But the ATC has a different UI I think?

cebert

When I was growing up, there were two airport simulator games that were pretty fun to play. One of them I remember playing on my Sega Genesis.

tantalor

Nice homage to Flight Control (2009)

heresalexandria

This is super fun! Could be neat to add keyboard controls for auto routing (i.e. select plane number n and auto route it to strip x or have it fly a go-around to wait). Would also be sick if you added models of real world airports to play. That said I love this as is and will definitely be playing & sharing it.

bakies

Think it needs just a little zoom out on my phone but had a fun time. Both my games ended off screen

sarreph

I was only thinking about Flight Control[0] the other day and how I wish there were more modern takes on it! There was Mini Metro[1], but that was released over a decade ago. -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Metro_(video_game)

Aardwolf

4 successful landings before disaster struck, not a bad first day as ATC

exDM69

Absolutely delightful, just played a few rounds. I really love ATC games and the "draw it by hand" aspect makes this kinda funny. Maybe I need to try with a real mouse, kinda slow on a trackpad. For a more serious entrant in this genre (with speeds, altitudes and radio navigation), check out Endless ATC on Steam. I landed some 40 flights and made it near the top of the leaderboard. The scoreboard is taking too much screen space and occluding the planes, would be better to have scores at the top or bottom.

wjdp

Took me far too long to work how to get a plane to land, was drawing lines along the runway rather than dropping them on the coloured spot at the end and they were overflying. Was thinking the paths weren't straight enough, once I figured it out was quite funny to find the planes can do 180° turns mid air to land.

thanzex

This was really fun to play with, I have a few suggestions: - As the airspace gets more congested, it becomes difficult to click the airplanes as you can also grab an existing path, messing everything up. - The big stats table on the top left completely obscures a good portion of the map, making it harder than necessary. A togglable or semi-transparent option would be nice. -The possibility of zooming or moving around could be nice

tdubey

Open up https://www.liveatc.net/ in another tab and you have a complete experience. Really fun!

gus_massa

Nice and fun, but I'd like that the fame enforces a minimal turning radius.

paxys

Not enough of you played Flight Control in 2008 and it shows.

tallanvor

Just a green background and some text on Firefox.

AlfredBarnes

Fun how quickly i developed my own rules. Yellow planes always get rerouted this way. Put red in this circle to stay out of the way. Thank you for sharing and thank you maker for makign!

opentestudox

Is this based on WebAssembly?

kbcool

I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't a simulator for managing what happens inside the airport rather than ATC. I'm also unsure why I feel that way as it sounds like a nightmare

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