Comparison

DRS vs AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

DRS

Master FPV drone piloting with realistic physics in a sandbox environment. Explore diverse locations, customize controls, and choose from various flight modes. Ideal for beginners and experienced pilots alike.

Highlights
  • Realistic physics-based flying
  • Race and sandbox modes
  • Multiple flight locations
  • Adjustable controls
  • Throttle stabilizer for beginners
  • Customizable drone characteristics
Features
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Practice to fly FPV drones, quadrocopters in this sanbox simulator Realistic physics based flying drone. Race and sandbox mods! Over 5 different locations to fly. Super adjustable controls. You can connect your controller or fly with screen joysticks. If you are a beginner, you can fly with throttle stabilizer and throttle mapping (keeps the height and centers the throttle stick), it makes flying much easier in this FPV drone racing quadcopter league simulator offline sandbox game aka DRS. This quadcopter simulator has everything you need for realistic flying: - Acro mode - Stable mode - Few camera modes - Adjustable throttle, pitch, and yaw - Camera angle - Drone weight - Angular drag Adjust the settings to match your favorite drone characteristics. Practice your freestyle at different locations. From open football stadium to tight pine forest. Fly your drone in the industrial hangar, forest, town, over the ocean and few other locations in this drone simulator games.

About

AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim

Experience a realistic open-world flight simulator with detailed sceneries, airports, and dynamic weather. Complete various missions to become a professional pilot, or explore the world by driving cars and helicopters.

Highlights
  • Open-world flight simulation
  • Detailed sceneries and airports
  • Dynamic weather and day/night cycle
  • Variety of missions
  • Drive cars and helicopters
  • Realistic flight physics
Features
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Take flight in real airplanes across the massively detailed open-world flight simulator. Explore sceneries and airports in high resolution with satellite maps, 3D buildings, runways, air traffic, weather conditions, and true volumetric clouds. More than 150 km² of the area! Perform a wide variety of missions to become a professional airplane pilot. !!Airplane Flight Pilot Simulator is the ultimate plane flying simulation with 20 free levels!! You can drive different vehicles, like cars, helicopters, and planes. One of the best airplane flight simulators with dynamic weather conditions and realistic day and night cycle, with clear skies, tropical rain, snow, thunderstorms, wind, turbulence, and true 3d volumetric clouds! Fly and explore the massive open-world environment and its unique locations, take off from 7 airports, commute from international airports to small campaign airports. There's also tons of point of interest to explore, like rivers and lakes, big city, small town, nuclear power plant, port, Japanese temple, different houses and farms, ruins, camping place, and more... Drive fast cars on the open roads, from 2x2 lanes to very small offroad road of mountains, with hill climb and canyon. Explore the world not just by flying, but with real car driving simulator experiences as well! Explore the map and find one of the mission markers to launch a mission. Simply walk into the marker to begin the mission like any familiar open-world style gameplay. Use the helpful minimap to know where are the missions spots. Press it to expand the whole map. Fly across the open-world and explore for hours in one of the best airplane flying simulation games! Example of missions: - Random flight problems (landing gear problems, engine failure, etc.) to test real piloting situations - Transport passengers - Escort the president with Airforce (F-18) - Help victims after a plane accident - Fly through all the checkpoints as fast as possible - Land on an aircraft carrier - Learn to take off and land on a runway, and full flight - Emergency landing on the water - Control your aircraft during a tempest - Attach a banner in your aircraft to do some advertisement - Race against helicopters - Land your aircraft during an engine failure Features: - Weather forecast: clear sky, rain, thunderstorms, snow - Day and night cycle - True 3D volumetric cloud system - Fly turbulence - Realistic plane flight physics - Intuitive flying controls: buttons, joystick, or accelerometers - Plane crashes and smokes effects. - Dynamic lighting and sound effects to recreate the realistic experience - High-quality world environments with high res satellite imagery - Highly detailed realistic airplane cockpit environment. - Multiple on-board cameras to get every angle of the jet - Huge selection of aircraft and airline - Ultimate racing challenge game - Hugely open-world driving simulator - Miles of roads to drift and drive on and do stunt jumps - Map Informations(Distance, Altitude, etc.) - Fully interactive cockpit environment and controls List of airplane : - Cessna 182 - Embraer Legacy 600 - Piper PA-46 - DHC-6 Twin Otter - Boeing 777 airliner - PZL-104 Wilga - Pitts special - Piaggio P180 Avanti You can adjust the quality button to play without lag. This is some of the most difficult flight situations ever! Test your plane flying skills and car driving! The latest and one of the best challenging games. Become the ultimate airplane flight pilot in the all-new simulator gaming sensation, Airplane Flight Pilot Simulator!

Screenshots

DRS4 screens
AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim at 80% against DRS's 28%. AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (14K vs 1.9K). DRS's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DRS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim has 14K ratings behind it against 1.9K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of DRS's written reviews are positive against 80% of AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DRS ships an update every 2 months, AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DRS versus AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDRSAFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (1.9K ratings)4.6 (14K ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.2% of reviews80.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.9K14K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size223 MB167 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPSV StudioMH Production

Customer experience

DRS

All ratings1,868 ratings
Positive77.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative15.7%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive28.2%
Neutral10.7%
Negative61.2%

AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim

All ratings13,508 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews510 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative13.7%

User reviews

DRS

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great simulator
  • 🎮 Supports controllers
  • 👍 Helps practice flying

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Broken controls and features after updates
  • 💸 Too many ads, even after paying to remove them
  • 🛑 Not realistic compared to real drones

AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim

From 14K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Smooth gameplay
  • 🚀 Endless fun
  • 🤩 Exciting discovery
  • 🚗 Enjoyable driving
  • 🎯 Challenging difficulty

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Limited content after completing missions
  • 🚗 Issues with car physics and behavior

Bugs and requests

DRS

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Vertical thrust is broken in latest version
  • Can't get past ads prompt even after paying
  • Frequent crashes and glitches

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more maps and environments
  • Improve physics and realism
  • Add crash physics and effects

AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Planes and cars despawning
  • Crashing issues on certain devices
  • Glitches with specific aircraft models

Requested features

7 requests
  • More planes and vehicle types
  • Improved graphics and visual fidelity
  • Expanded map and locations
  • Multiplayer and online features
  • Customization options for planes and characters
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  • Increased mission variety and difficulty
  • Realistic physics and flight mechanics

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DRS

One-time1
  • Remove all ads$2.99
10 purchases

AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim

One-time10
  • Get 40 000 coins$2.99
  • Get 100 0000 coins$5.99
  • Unlock Everything + Remove Ads$8.99
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  • Army Pack$9.99
  • Airliner Pack$9.99
  • Best Pack$12.99
  • Get 500 0000 coins$19.99
  • Unlock Everything$29.99
  • High Price Big CoinPack$29.99
  • High Price Unlock all$49.99

Questions

Is DRS free?
DRS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim free?
AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DRS or AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim?
AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim is rated higher. DRS averages 4.2 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim averages 4.6 from 14K ratings.
Do DRS or AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim have ads?
Both DRS and AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim show ads.
Which is updated more often, DRS or AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim?
DRS ships an update every 2 months, and AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim every 8 months. Most recently, DRS was updated on September 22, 2026 and AFPS Airplane Flight Pilot Sim on September 24, 2026.

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