# Headings - Air Traffic Control — user reviews > 20 indexed App Store user reviews of Headings by nick bols, rated 4.80/5 from 10 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/headings-air-traffic-control/id6451052730/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/headings-air-traffic-control/id6451052730.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (5 of 20) ### 5/5 — Great! *2025-03-06* Great App, Lot of fun **Developer response:** Hi ALELel, Thank you kindly for the review! :) Greetings, Nick ### 5/5 — Simple and fun *2025-01-11* It's a simple concept; I enjoy playing it. The only thing I wish for is the additional ability to add more custom runways to the scenarios. I like it. **Developer response:** Hi Shan_00000_! I’m working on more scenarios, and being able to change runways midgame is also on the future list. Thanks for the review I really appreciate it :) ### 5/5 — So fun *2024-10-28* I love this app. It’s so fun. Wish I was an ATCO. **Developer response:** Hey idnfiel, Thank you very much! :) Definitely try the entry exams if you’re within the age-limit. They are a lot of fun! Greets, N. ### 5/5 — Amazing ATC application *2024-10-13* This ATC Simulation is amazing, Simply just works as expected. 5 Stars from me. **Developer response:** Hi Vinney, Thank you very much, greatly appreciated :) Greets, N. ### 5/5 — Best of the bunch when it comes to radar ATC games *2024-09-25* This seems to be the best one I have tried. I would love to see SID/STAR incorporation with descend and climb via clearances. More intersections to aid in vectoring. More airports with intersecting landing runway operations. One thing I don’t like is the random generation in the very beginning. The aircraft should generate from a waypoint handoff. Otherwise a great trainer/game from a one man team. Added the 5th star because the developer cares about his product and communicates to the custome. Bravo :-) **Developer response:** Hi Metalpilot, Thank you for the kind review and suggestions! SID/STAR would definitely be possible, working on a way to show bigger airspace in a user-friendly way for that. Perhaps iPad only at first. You’re right, the starting aircraft positions were a relic of early testing.. I’ve moved these to the waypoint handoffs now which is much better :) (v1.3 out now) Regards, N. Edit: thank you!! :D ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t be played on iPhone 12 *2024-04-28* The plane control screen runs off the screen all around and the scrolling numbers for setting FL and spend don’t so you can’t set high or low values. This was a waste of money for an iPhone! Once again I get burned buying an Apple app of such poor quality. **Developer response:** Hi Eriptron, To confirm, the control screen is supposed to be full screen and the numbers for FL, speed etc. are not scrollable. It may be a bug linked to 1 model/screen size of iPhone. Could you please send me a screenshot to headingsatc@icloud.com so I can look into this for you? Regards, N ### 4/5 — Action required *2025-12-29* Nice to play. Please provide more airports. And: Do not send a/c in at the same level while another flies through the exit point. No one can handle this even in real life. **Developer response:** Hi Gideon69, Thank you for reporting! That is indeed not supposed to happen at all, it’s a side-effect of allowing some types of departures more exit levels because of smaller airspace size for people with smaller devices. I’ve already tackled some of those. Do you recall by any chance which scenario and exit/entrypoint it was? Feel free to send to headingsatc@icloud.com and I’ll take a look. Planning on reworking to add separate entry/exit points as well to eliminate this of happening all together. Greets, N. ### 4/5 — Good but could improve *2025-07-30* Good, but could be improved with more airports, runway change assignments, voice vectoring/recognition and approach gates **Developer response:** Hello 3113626, Thank you for the review and ideas! Definitely working on some of those :) Feel free to email me more info with your idea of approach gates. Greets, N. ### 4/5 — Best of the bunch when it comes to radar ATC games *2024-09-06* This seems to be the best one I have tried. I would love to see SID/STAR incorporation with descend and climb via clearances. More intersections to aid in vectoring. More airports with intersecting landing runway operations. One thing I don’t like is the random generation in the very beginning. The aircraft should generate from a waypoint handoff. Otherwise a great trainer/game from a one man team. **Developer response:** Hi Metalpilot, Thank you for the kind review and suggestions! SID/STAR would definitely be possible, working on a way to show bigger airspace in a user-friendly way for that. Perhaps iPad only at first. You’re right, the starting aircraft positions were a relic of early testing.. I’ve moved these to the waypoint handoffs now which is much better :) (v1.3 out now) Regards, N. ### 4/5 — Developer is both nice and efficient! :-) *2024-05-14* After the developer saw my review and contacted me in a matter of days. He fixed the iOS zoom setting issue and now I can see the exit points. :-) On my iPhone 12, the speed settings are too fast, x50 is more like an arcade. I suggested something like; c1, x4, x7, x10 instead. As is, I leave it on x1 just put it down for a while. I think I heard a real air traffic controller collapse on the floor. 8-) **Developer response:** Hey Eriptron! Thanks again for the quick replies with the info I needed! I’ve just added 3x speed as an option. Hopefully not too many have collapsed yet ;) Grts, N ### 5/5 — Actual Radar ATCO review *2026-09-02* Really good simulation, and much fun! I’m able to play on my iPhone with ease. Room for improvement: - WTC alarm triggers with a lighter in front of a heavier WTC on final. Otherwise, good job! **Developer response:** Hey Sam885, Thank you for playing and reporting! -WTC: do you mean the yellow warning one or red? The yellow is advisory during any phase of flight, I made it just as a reminder and a teaching aid that if you would turn those aircraft on final, then you need to be wary of the sequence and distance. As soon as they both fully establish on ILS it should disappear. This will not cost you any points. If you mean H behind L both on ILS gave you a red warning, that is some kind of a bug! (unless they were closer than 3.0NM, only on short final can they get closer than that to account for speed compression) -Fixed labels: There should not be any fixed labels. If you long press (about half a second) on a label, you can then drag that label around as long as you keep your finger on screen. It will then keep that relevant position to the aircraft when you release. If this doesn't fix/explain what you meant, please send me an email at headingsatc@icloud.com and I'll gladly look further into it. Regards, Nick ### 5/5 — Fantastic Game *2026-06-26* This is up there with the best ATC games that I’ve played. Would love the ability to vector aircraft to waypoints (useful for consistent approaches) or even the ability to set standard approaches etc. but maybe that would make it too easy. I really enjoy the fact that the scenarios have a set number of aircraft, so it is possible to play a certain scenario and finish after a set time, rather than many of the ATC genre that have arrivals continually ramping up until a separation incident is inevitable. Great game! Thanks 🙏 **Developer response:** Hey mwwhale, Wow! Amazing to hear, of course the game was made with a lot of passion :) Indeed once the zoomout and airspace size are improved I think waypoints would be super useful. (e.g. for holds) I also imagine a point merge scenario in the future. Thanks again for the review! Greets, Nick ### 5/5 — ILS not working *2025-12-28* ‘Cleared Direct’ function has stopped changing the direction of the aircraft to the start of the runway approach. **Developer response:** Hi JK (SC), Thanks for pointing out a possible bug. Could you email me at headingsatc@icloud.com please with more detail so I can take a look at it? In my testing the ILS still works. If the angle between aircraft current heading and ILS is too large it will not intercept. Too high speed can also have an impact. Is it any specific scenario only for example? Which kind of device and iOS version are you using? Thank you! Regards, Nick ### 5/5 — Is it for real? *2025-12-18* . I’ve tried many other programs for aircraft control, but this is absolutely the best it gives you everything you could want in a control atmosphere. It’s almost like you’re sitting in an ATC office controlling aircraft into an airport. It starts off with training and then you progress very realistic and extremely addictive. I’ve sat here until like 3 o’clock in the morning playing with this and I’ve been doing it now for a few weeks and it is wonderful. Can’t wait for the next revision so if you’re looking for a good realistic, ATC program look no further this one is definitely it. **Developer response:** Hi Zoster can, Thank you very much that addictive feeling is exactly what I was going for, it gets like that irl as well so I wanted to convey that as best as possible :) Working on the next versions, plan to get back on a faster update pace soon. Enjoy! Greets, Nick ### 5/5 — Brilliant ✈️ *2025-12-08* 40 years ATPL of which 33 flying heavies out of LHR and LGW I’ve always admired the London ATC controllers. It’s not an easy job is it! Thank you to all of them and the other ATCOs around the world, but perhaps not the Australian ones 😂 **Developer response:** Hello capt squirrel, Your review is very much appreciated thanks! Also I’m really curious now about the Australian colleague stories 😄 Greetings, Nick ## Most praised reviews (5 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best out there *2025-08-04* To my knowledge the most realistic Atc game out there in the App Store. Simple, straightforward and challenging if you want it to be! Works extremely well. If you’re into ATC this game is well worth the one time purchase. Hoping for possible pilot voices in the future and maybe some paperwork/tutorials on official arrival and departure procedures? Thank you for a great game 🫡 **Developer response:** Hi Pepijn, Super nice to hear thank you for the review! Voices/speech recognition is on my planned features list for sure! Perhaps also a website or youtube channel to have more elaborate information and tutorials. Thanks for playing! Greetings, N. ### 5/5 — Just amazing! *2025-07-18* This simulator offers simplicity along side realistic airspace’s and aircraft behaviours. This has been crafted with passion. The only criticism is an idea, if there was a setting to change tag size, it would be really helpful. **Developer response:** Hi Lewis! Greatly appreciate your review thanks :) I assume you mean the label text size always being smaller also when zoomed out? It’s a good idea and should not be too hard to implement from the settings menu. I’ll look into that. Feel free to email me with more details/ideas. Greetings, N. ### 5/5 — Great ATC *2025-06-21* This is one of the best ATC games out there. The controls are quick to learn. It would be great if you had default approaches you could put planes on and then vector to final. Maybe have a small failure rate where the pilot misses a turn or command. The only thing I noticed is the observed speed thresholds below 10k don’t apply. These are minor callouts as the single dev delivered a great experience. **Developer response:** Hey 702ninja! Thanks so much for the suggestions and review I’m happy you like the game :) I’m planning to add something like a point-merge scenario in the future. SIDs and STARs are on that list. Feel free to email me at headingsatc@icloud.com if you could provide some more information about the observed speed thresholds so we can maybe fix that :) Regards, N. ### 5/5 — WONDERFUL APP! HIGHLY RECOMMEND *2025-05-07* The developer(s) did an amazing job on this app, and I hope they continue developing it for a long time to come. This game has so much potential, and I can't wait to see what gets added next! I will say that it can be quite puzzling for some people, as it simulates the real thing, but it gets easier as time goes on! I would love for the developers to make things like tower/ground/center controller modes for more diversity, but it's truly at a great start! I recommend this app, thank you developers for making a truly realistic simulator that also works as a puzzle! **Developer response:** Hi Christopher, Many thanks for the nice review and suggestions! It’s just me developing and I definitely plan on developing it a lot more :D Working on a more game-like mode as well where you can just practice or challenge your headings knowledge quickly by aiming a cannon or something. Regards, N. ### 5/5 — Zoom feature *2025-04-17* This is a very good game, although there are a few features that are missing. It would be great to see a zoom feature in this game, this would help alot when you line planes up for landing it can get cluttered and hard to see so an addition of a zoom feature would be helpful. **Developer response:** Hi EnchantedBurnishedBee, First of, thank you very much for the nice review it keeps me going :) I’ve just released an update with version 1 of the zoom feature. Feel free to email me with your thoughts about it. Headingsatc@icloud.com Greets, N. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*