Approach Control User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.8% of reviews
Neutral15.3% of reviews
Negative experience38.9% of reviews

~ Based on 72 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Not bad

Would be even better with some random VFR trafic who would pop up.

Fun but missing realistic procedures

Doesn’t correctly apply approved separation standards such as diverging separation but fun to play with. Also needs varying runway alignment

Bad game

Not sure if it’s meant to be “highly realistic” or they’re just joking, but whatever the case this game is not realistic in the slightest

Great potential, but needs dev

The UI is great…a nice presentation, easy to use and has a realistic feel. Issues that need work as of 1/2023:
1. User needs awareness of why game ended. It seems like if a threshold of errors is reached, the game ends, but why the game ends each time needs to be made apparent to the user. In current state, it feels like the game is crashing.
2. End game screen feels broken: user is presented with coaching/reinforcement, which is fine, but the try again/replay button doesn’t work, so user experience is that the game is frozen. Only way to try again is to close app, and re-launch, which feels like a total loss of previous gameplay.
Nevertheless, I keep playing, which says a lot.
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Good, but..

Great to pass time, but needs to update based on 7110.65, passing or diverting and merging target procedures. Broke sep on aircraft over 30degrees diverting or paths won’t intercept. But still fun

Good but

Hi, this game is very good indeed, but we need a new update with more traffic and two runways or more and departures would be so good also.
As a ATC by myself it is realistic, but a new version and a patch would be good
Thx a lot

Nicely done

Being an ATCO myself, this game provides a nice degree of realistic a/c performance. Interface works rather smoothly as well, so it’s close to doing the real thing. Recommended!

A Rando’s Nandos Review

Ok, first for the free approach sector at least this is way to little space you’ve given for a feeder of directors control. The space between traffic on downwind and traffic on final on the localiser is barely enough and just above 3 miles standard radar separation. Approach sectors for feeder at least have a big sector or larger ones have up to 40NM, also it would be nice to let people know the different altitude intercepts for the glide slope as not every plane can just go from the Outer marker at any altitude and magically descend fast enough for landing. These are all things which don’t require a huge ton of work, I have much more stuff to say on the “realism of this” “ simulator” but I’ve really just complained on the stuff which is already there. Realism of this id give it a 1/5 and I know it isn’t easy to implement all of the things for realism but if you wanted a fair review here it was.
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Worst of the worst

Your instructions are tirrable causing me to making lots of errors not recommenced for the best experience

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Good enough but.

If you add
1) real airports such as JFK or KLAX!)
2) make to I would can clear for ILS only in localizer.
3) add some real airlines with their callsign such as Delta (D) or Lufthansa (LH) for example - D137 or LH654 .
The game will be so much better!!! And real people in aviation will give you 5 stars . And you will be rich.)))) good luck!!!
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Glitches

Really enjoy it. Now, if they could just curb the glitches like when the scores won’t reset

なかなかおもしろい

黒い画面を点が動いているだけのかなり地味でお金のかかってなさそうなゲームだけどハマった。しょっぱなの1ステージから難しい。2ステージからは課金みたい。1ステージクリアしたら2ステージやってみようかな。

Bad

Worst

Technical and fun!

This game has a simulator feel to it. Great way to pass time.

Great realistic timing.

Worked as a terminal ATC. Nice for basic training traffic in a terminal environment. Unlike real ATC there are a few things lacking. For sure back and forth communication with pilot and response times in app are way to fast. It's great for getting comfortable with conflict resolution. Not every plane has to land on downwind side of runway they come through the gate at. If your busy and another plane comes in send it over the runway and bring him in on other side or widen him out and give him a bigger downwind. Above all keep vertical separation that's the be all of end all. All together nice realistic app for the scale it's on. Most terminal environments are 30 nm wide. Could use more space to sequence. Also would be nice to have basic aircraft data that tells you if it's a light medium or heavy and then space according to wake turbulence as in the real environment. Anyways great app!
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Used to be great

Used to be a great game, but now it crashes ALL the time. Anything longer than about 10-15min and it crashes. An update would be nice....

How about some new scenarios too? Gets a little boring playing the same scenarios all the time

Crashes a lot

Great game to play. But crashes a lot and doesn't save the score

Crashes

This game is a lot of fun! But crashes after playing it for 10 mins or longer. Played on my ipad 2 and iPhone 6 and it crashes on both. Doesn't save your game either so you lose all your progress.

Not recommend

The app is in serious need of updates. It's a 4x3 aspect ration in a 16x9 world.