# F-Sim\|Space Shuttle 2 — Land the Space Shuttle

> Realistic space shuttle approach and landing flight simulator with detailed physics and graphics. (iPhone/iPad app by SkyTale Software GmbH.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/f-simspace-shuttle-2/id1546191619 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [SkyTale Software GmbH](https://appshunter.io/developer/352670058)
- Category: Games, Education, Racing, Simulation
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 526 App Store ratings · 215 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.0 · 1.3 GB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2021-08-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/f-simspace-shuttle-2/id1546191619/reviews.md

## What is F?

Here is the long-awaited successor to our critically acclaimed flight simulator. It simulates the Space Shuttle approach and landing in incredible detail and accuracy. 

This is a remaster of our original F-Sim Space Shuttle, completely rewritten from scratch. New features include:
- Console quality graphics
- Interactive tutorials
- White Sands as a third landing site option
- Orbit mode

F-Sim Space Shuttle combines realistic flight simulation with stunning graphics and fun gameplay.

You’ve never landed a Space Shuttle before? We’ve got you covered: Included are several tutorials with varying degrees of autopilot assist. Our landing analysis and scoring system tells you exactly how to improve your next landing. It will make you come back and try again.

Each flight starts at either 10,000 feet, already aligned with the runway, or at up to 50,000 feet, before banking into the heading alignment cone. During descent, the Orbiter is an unpowered glider, so you will only have one chance to get it right. Astronauts used to call it a flying brick: Because of its 200,000 lbs. gross weight and low lift over drag ratio, the approach is six times steeper and two times faster than a typical airliner approach. After your first safe touchdown, chase that perfect landing, compare your high scores online with your friends, earn medals, and unlock achievements. Experiment with different wind conditions, night approaches, and even emergency scenarios or system failures. At the end of each flight, watch a replay from different camera angles.

You control the Orbiter’s pitch and roll axes by tilting your device. Alternatively, you may switch to on-screen analog sticks or use a gamepad. Rudder, speed brake, gear, and chute are usually handled by the autopilot, but you can have full manual control if you like. For beginners, we’ve added rectangles that visualize the desired approach path. Simply try to stay within the corridor of rectangles, and they’ll guide you right to the touchdown point. Advanced pilots can turn them off and rely on the instruments in the head-up display (HUD) instead. The simulated guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems are authentic replications of their counterparts in the real Orbiter, and the HUD features all the instruments real Space Shuttle commanders used to employ to skillfully land this unique aircraft. Now it’s your turn to give it a try.

A new orbit mode lets you take the Orbiter for a spin around the planet, and we’re working on a full atmospheric re-entry scenario, which, among other new features, will be released as free updates in the coming months.

There are no ads or in app purchases, and we don’t collect any personal data.

## Key features

- Realistic space shuttle approach and landing simulation
- Console-quality graphics
- Interactive tutorials with autopilot assist
- Landing analysis and scoring system
- Orbit mode
- Multiple landing sites including White Sands
- Adjustable wind conditions and emergency scenarios

## Chart rankings

- #27 in Top Paid · Racing (US App Store)
- #162 in Top Paid · Simulation (US App Store)

## What do users think of F?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Cool game
- 🚀 Great game
- 🚀 Really cool
- 🚀 Fantastic
- 🚀 Stunning
- 🚀 Amazing
- 🚀 Awesome
- 🚀 Hands Down the Best Simulation and Meditation App

**Cons**

- 🐛 Tilt control issues
- 🐛 Reentry not working
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Inconsistent landing scoring
- 🐛 Overly sensitive controls
- 🐛 Lack of updates

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Tilt control not working
- Reentry mode not available
- Crashes and freezes
- Inconsistent landing scoring
- Overly sensitive controls

**Most requested features**

- Reentry mode
- Launch sequence
- Orbit mode improvements
- Ability to open payload bay doors
- Docking with ISS
- Cargo deployment
- More mission types
- Ability to change units (imperial/metric)
- Background audio support
- More landing sites

## Recent user reviews (10 of 215)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/f-simspace-shuttle-2/id1546191619/reviews.md

### 2/5 — To everyone asking about re-entry…

*2026-07-07, version 1.1*

Update: To everyone who kept asking about this part of the app that was promised to eventually be provided as an update - I told you 2 years earlier the update wasn’t coming despite the devs promising it, and I was right.  Hence… 

… we can stop asking about it. Just like that X-15 sim that vanished without a trace, so has this. If we’re lucky, it might come in the next full release but it is not coming as the update as was claimed well over a year ago. Sorry guys. Wake up and smell the coffee.

### 4/5 — I WANT REENTRY

*2026-06-25, version 1.1*

it’s good, but the reentry is not out yet, and I think it would be cool to use CSS control for reentry, since there are many maneuvers during reentry and TAEM (Transitional Area Energy Management) flight, such as changing the bank angle, doing S-Turns, and changing the AoA. It would be cool as well to have a launch mode too. Overall very good.
Worth it.

### 5/5 — Dying for the reentry update.

*2026-06-02, version 1.1*

Possibly consider a PC release with joystick controls due to finances as you mentioned in another review :( 

Flight sim enthusiasts (who are not fully exposed to mobile app stores) would faint from excitement as orbitersim hasn’t been overhauled in years if not over a decade. 

Wishing the best of luck to the team!

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2026-05-14, version 1.1*

Incredible

### 5/5 — So good

*2026-04-23, version 1.1*

This is my fav game now but can you add mutiplayer pls

### 3/5 — Great but.....

*2026-04-20, version 1.1*

Sort of bummed that re entry was never developed. Doesn't look like it will ever come out

### 3/5 — Good but you gave up on it

*2026-04-12, version 1.1*

No re-entry I have been waiting for 4-5 years for it but still no re-entry but on the good side graphics are good and it’s entertaining but I’m just gonna give up on this sadly. SAD FACE :(

### 2/5 — Too hard

*2026-04-08, version 1.1*

Like every time you try and get a butter boom you get a crash landing the only time I got a safe landing was when I was following so much tutorials on ytube  but graphics are great buy F-Sim 2 make it more easy to get atleast a safe landing

### 5/5 — so good

*2026-03-26, version 1.1*

if you’re really in space, you should try this game out

### 4/5 — It has potential

*2026-03-17*

Developers, you can take it as further as you want. Best space shuttle simulator ever.

**Developer response:** 5‑star समीक्षा के लिए आपका बहुत‑बहुत धन्यवाद 🚀
हम आपके समर्थन की वास्तव में सराहना करते हैं। साफ‑साफ कहें तो, वर्ज़न 2 ने वित्तीय रूप से हमारी उम्मीदों के अनुसार प्रदर्शन नहीं किया, इसलिए हमें कुछ समय के लिए अपना ध्यान अन्य प्रोजेक्ट्स पर लगाना पड़ा। इससे प्रगति हमारी इच्छा से अधिक धीमी हो गई — लेकिन प्रोजेक्ट छोड़ा नहीं गया है, और आपका उत्साह हमें आगे बढ़ने में सच में मदद करता है।

## Frequently asked questions about F

### What is F-Sim|Space Shuttle 2?

F-Sim|Space Shuttle 2 is a highly detailed flight simulator that focuses on the challenging approach and landing of the Space Shuttle. It features console-quality graphics, realistic flight physics, and interactive tutorials to help users master the landing process.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include a realistic simulation of the Space Shuttle's unpowered approach and landing, interactive tutorials with varying levels of autopilot assist, a landing analysis and scoring system to help users improve, and an orbit mode. It also offers console-quality graphics and multiple landing sites.

### How much does F-Sim|Space Shuttle 2 cost?

The application is a paid app with no advertisements or in-app purchases. This means you purchase the app once to access all its features.

### What devices is F-Sim|Space Shuttle 2 compatible with?

The app is designed for mobile devices and allows control via tilting the device, on-screen analog sticks, or a gamepad. It aims to replicate the authentic guidance, navigation, and control systems used by real Space Shuttle commanders.

### What makes landing a space shuttle difficult in this simulator?

Landing a space shuttle is challenging because it's an unpowered glider during descent, meaning you only have one chance to get it right. Its design results in a much steeper and faster approach than a typical airliner, requiring precise control and adherence to the flight path.

## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2021-09-29

This is a minor update with bugfixes and some new features:

New features:
- Background audio (e.g. playlists from Apple Music) can now be played back instead of F-Sim's in-game music. This is optional and must be enabled in the F-Sim's Sound And Vibrations settings.
- RCS controls (in orbit mode) now always use virtual sticks instead of tilt controls
- New autopilot wheel-brake option

The following bugs have been fixed:
- Wheel bounce detection is now less aggressive
- Fixed a bug with terrain collider updates (this bug sometimes caused the Orbiter to jump during rollout when the framerate was low)
- Fixed a couple of bugs concerning wheel brake control during rollout.

### 1.0 — 2021-08-04

No release notes.

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