Falcon BMS Control vs Sky Scope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Falcon BMS Control
Control a flight simulator from your mobile device. This app mirrors simulator displays and buttons on your touch screen, offering responsive control with minimal delay. A companion server application is required for full functionality.
- Control Falcon BMS simulator
- Render ICP, DED, and MFDs
- Touchscreen button control
- No perceivable delay
- Requires companion server app
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Falcon BMS Control lets you control Falcon BMS simulator from your iPad or iPhone. It will render the ICP, DED and both left and right MFDs on your touch device and all buttons present will control your simulator with no perceivable delay. Requires the accompanying server application from https://kungfoo.github.io/falcon-bms-control/ to be running to fully work.
Sky Scope
Track aircraft in real-time with a radar-style interface. View live flight data including callsigns, aircraft type, and navigation modes. Discover nearby planes and their flight details.
- Real-time aircraft tracking
- Radar-style interface
- Live flight data display
- Closest aircraft highlighting
- Aircraft callsign and type information
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Sky Scope is a real-time aircraft tracking app for iPhone and iPad. It displays nearby flights on a radar-style interface, highlights the closest aircraft, and shows live data like callsigns, hex codes, nav modes, and aircraft type.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sky Scope at every 4 days against Falcon BMS Control's every 9 months. Falcon BMS Control's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Falcon BMS Control against 5.0 for Sky Scope. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falcon BMS Control has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Falcon BMS Control ships an update every 9 months, Sky Scope every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falcon BMS Control | Sky Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silvio Heuberger | Mark Haney |
Customer experience
Falcon BMS Control
Sky Scope
In-app purchases
Falcon BMS Control
No in-app purchases
Sky Scope
No in-app purchases
