Can You Land?

Every approach is half a minute of flying: pick up the approach lights far out over the water, line up, drop the gear in time and fly it all the way down. Crash or land, the replay shows you from outside exactly what happened.

Fly the approach on the PAPI lights, hold the centreline and put the wheels down softly on the aiming point 300 metres past the threshold. Every landing is scored out of 100 on sink rate, touchdown point, centreline and bank, and the score is honest: most first-timers crash.

Land well and you earn coins. Spend them in the hangar on a 747, a Concorde, a Gulfstream G650, an A380, an F/A-18 or the SR-71 Blackbird, each with its own cockpit, its own instruments and its own stick or yoke, and each far harder to fly than the A320 you start with. The heavier and the faster ones pay more points, so the leaderboard belongs to the pilots who dare.

Four airports open up as you land. The island where everyone starts, an alpine valley in the snow where reindeer wander onto the strip, a harbour city where you turn late between the towers at the checkerboard, and a carrier where the Navy lends you a Hornet for 240 metres of steel. Once a day the wheel gives you a free spin: coins, a free aircraft or the next airport.

Every day there is a new daily challenge: the same airport, aircraft and weather for everybody, with its own leaderboard. Land several times in a row and your streak raises the coins you earn. Watch out for the flocks of birds crossing the approach: fly through one and both engines are gone.

Features

• One stick control, no autopilot, permanent drift you have to fly against
• Night, fog, thunderstorms, rain, snow, gusts, windshear and runways as short as 900 metres
• Four airports, from a quiet island to a city approach and a carrier deck, each worth more points
• Seven aircraft to unlock with coins, each with its own cockpit, instruments and handling
• Strict 0 to 100 scoring on sink rate, touchdown point, centreline and bank
• A daily challenge with its own leaderboard, and landing streaks that pay extra coins
• A replay of every approach, seen from outside
• A daily wheel that pays coins, a free aircraft or a new airport
• A worldwide leaderboard that shows the best landing per pilot
• Voxel graphics, plays in the browser on desktop and phone

How to Play

Aim for two white and two red PAPI lights on the left of the runway, gear down, wings level, and touch down softly on the big aiming bars 300 meters past the threshold.

Controls

Desktop

• Drag with the mouse anywhere on the windscreen or the panel to fly. Down = nose up, left and right = bank.
• WASD or the arrow keys fly as well.
• G lowers and raises the landing gear, or drag the gear lever on the right of the panel.
• Space or Enter starts the next approach.
• Tab cancels the flight and returns you to the main menu.
• The knob on the overhead panel mutes the sound.

Touch

• Put a finger anywhere on the windscreen or the panel and move it. Where you put it down becomes the center.
• Drag the gear lever on the right of the panel all the way down to lower the gear.
• The knob on the overhead panel mutes the sound.