HGS Flight vs Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HGS Flight
Simulate flying approaches with a head-up guidance system. Practice in various weather conditions and explore different flight scenarios. Experience advanced vision technologies to enhance situational awareness.
- Head-up guidance system simulation
- iPad-based flight control
- Multiple weather conditions
- Career and Challenge modes
- Synthetic and Enhanced Vision
- Real-world symbology
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Experience head-up and eyes-forward flying with the Head-up Guidance System (HGS™) from Collins Aerospace. With this application, you can use your iPad to simulate flying an approach into Innsbruck, Austria, and Queenstown, New Zealand, under a variety of weather conditions. Use the Career mode to build your skill, or take on the Challenge mode with user-defined settings if you want to create your own scenario. Follow the guidance cue in and see just how much our HGS technology helps you fly precisely, every time. FEATURES: - Your hands hold the yoke - tilt forward to nose down and back to nose up, and turn your device left and right to steer - Designed by pilots to challenge other pilots, but simple enough to learn that anyone can enjoy - Get the boss to their meeting on-time with a business jet, or safely deliver your passengers with an airliner - Pick Career to build your skill, or dive right in with Challenge mode - Experience all kinds of weather, such as crosswinds, windshear, rain and fog - Use Synthetic Vision & Enhanced Vision to “see” the terrain during day, night or fog HGS Flight allows you to see real symbology from the head-up displays used in actual airplanes. Use this tool to see how the HGS allows pilots to keep their head up and eyes out of the cockpit, focusing on the challenge at hand.
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016
Experience realistic flight simulation with a vast selection of aircraft and over 10,000 airports worldwide. Engage in commercial pilot career or free flight modes with fully functional 3D cockpits and accurate physics.
- 50 aircraft models
- 10,000+ airports
- Commercial pilot career mode
- Free flight mode
- Fully functional 3D cockpits
- Realistic physics engine
- Weather and turbulence simulation
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Flight Simulator 2016 FlyWings is the ultimate simulation for your mobile! With a large selection of aircrafts - 50 - and more than 10000 airports around the world, be prepared to be amazed with the beautiful landscapes of the simulation. The physics algorithm in the simulator (provided by NASA FoilSim 3, NACA/BAC specifications) and environment were developed with a very accurate mathematics to make our simulation more realistic than any other flight simulator ever created! There are two flight modes: - Commercial pilot career mode - Free flight mode (NEW!) All of FS2016 cockpits are in 3D and fully functional, with real instruments and real time informations about your flight. Aircrafts: - Arbus 318 Asia Arways - Arbus 319 Della Airlines - Arbus 320 Usa Airways - Arbus 321 Emarites - Arbus 380 700 Lifthanza, - Arbus 380 800 Quanta - Arbus 380 neo Emarites - Bart G58 - Boeing 747 200 Britain Airways, - Boeing 747 400 Della Airlines - Boeing 747 8i Lifthanza - Boeing 747 Ubs - Boeing 747 Sac - Boeing 747 vc25 United States of America - Boeing 757 200f DLH - Boeing 757 200 Unified - Boeing 757 300 America Airlines - Boeing 777 200f Febex - Boeing 777 200lr France Air - Boeing 777 200 Britain Airways - Boeing 777 300 America - Boeing 777 9x KML Airlines - Boeing 747 Sofia - Cezna 172 - Cezna 182 - Corair FU41 WW2 - Corair FU41 (after WW2) - Drone MK9 Reaper - Drone MK9 Guardian - Drone MK9 Predator - Embrar 170 Virgo - Embrar 175 Azil - Embrar 190 Brazil Aero Force - Embrar 195 TAW Airlines - Fighter F-14 - Fighter F-15 - Fighter F-22 - Foker Dreidcke 1 - Leerjet 60xl Bombard - Leerjet 70 Ambulance 911 - Leerjet 75 Black VIP - Richtofe Red Baron War 1 - Space Shutler Atantis - Space Shutler Challeng - Space Shutler Columb - Space Shutler Discover - Space Shutler Endvour - Spitfire Super World War 2 - Zero A6 Mitshu We covered thousand of miles in 10 cities: - New York - San Francisco - Chicago - Hawaii (enjoy the view of the volcanos!) - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Seattle - Washington D.C. - Saint Martin - Sidney Aircraft features: - Configure fuel payload - Flaps, trims, spoilers, gear, turn engines on/off - 9 different cameras - Turn lights on/off of the entire plane. - Automatic light system in day/night changes - Real Air Traffic Control (ATC) - Exclusive missions depending on your aircraft! - Exclusive animations for aircrafts Environment features: - Weather conditions - Turbulence - G-Force and blood pressure simulation - Air pressure depending on the altitudes - Dawn, day, dusk and night, changing in real time. You can fly many different groups of propulsors, as pistons, external combustion engines, turboprops, turbojet and turbofan engines and pulsejets for the modern fighters! Feel free to contact us to give your feedback! Us at FlyWings Studios are very proud of our product and hope you enjoy it at most! BONUS: - Saint Martin city, with TNCM airport (the one with the runway close to the beach! ) - Active volcanos in Hawaii islands Apple's Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ If you need to contact us, send an e-mail to support (at) thetisgames.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HGS Flight at 88% against Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016's 21%. HGS Flight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 40 months) and ratings volume (258 vs 4). On price 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. Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016 sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. HGS Flight asks for nothing beyond the download.
HGS Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016 has 258 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of HGS Flight's written reviews are positive against 21% of Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016's.
HGS Flight ships an update every 40 months, Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HGS Flight | Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 2.6 (258 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 21.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 258 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 40 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 394 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rockwell Collins, Inc. | Thetis Consulting |
Customer experience
HGS Flight
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016
User reviews
HGS Flight
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Realistic simulation
- 💡 Great learning tool for pilots
- 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay
- ✨ Good graphics
- 🎧 Realistic ATC audio
Room to improve
- 🐛 App stopped working on older iOS
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Controls not working well
- 🐛 Roll control overly sensitive
- 🐛 Compass headings reversed
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016
From 258 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great graphics
- 👍 Realistic flight experience
- 🤩 Awesome game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🤯 Unrealistic controls
- 🤬 Aggressive monetization
Bugs and requests
HGS Flight
Reported bugs
17 issues- Stopped working with iOS 11
- No longer works on iPad
- App no work
- Playability not good control
- Control is not working well
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- App crashes
- Can't get past menu screens
- Roll control seems overly sensitive
- App a little laggy in roll
- Compass headings reversed
- Landing Aborted message unclear
- Font doesn't match HGS
- Landing shouldn't be considered successful just because you touched the runway
- Velocity vector doesn't behave exactly like the one in the actual aircraft
- ATC audio loop replays same comms
- Volume not controllable except for turning it off
- Cannot set power/thrust back to default
Requested features
19 requests- Support for phones
- Full flight simulator with more airplanes
- Ability to take off and fly to a destination
- Full controls (flaps, gear, speed brakes)
- More cameras
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- More airfields
- Display all information a real HUD shows
- Ability to declutter HUD information
- More airports in different areas
- Replay feature
- Longer ATC audio loop
- Volume control for ATC audio
- Ability to set power/thrust back to default
- Add other cool airports and RF-leg approaches
- Update the cockpit
- More planes
- Lightning effects
- Change airports after landing
- Add more airports and airplanes
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016
Reported bugs
4 issues- Planes glitching and crashing
- Autopilot not functioning properly
- Fuel and refueling issues
- Frequent app crashes
Requested features
4 requests- More free planes to unlock
- Better tutorial and instructions
- Improved autopilot and flight assist features
- Multiplayer and online capabilities
In-app purchases
HGS Flight
No in-app purchases
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2016
- Bart G58$1.99
- Full Refuel$1.99
- Arbus 318 Asia Arways$2.99
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- Leerjet 60XL Bombard$2.99
- Arbus 319 Della Airlines$3.99
- Boing 747 VC25 United States of America$4.99
- Boing 757 300 America Airlines$4.99
- Leerjet 75 Black Vip$4.99
- 30-Day Premium Club Subscription$4.99
- Pack All Cities$4.99
- Arbus 380 Neo Emarites$9.99
Questions
Is HGS Flight free?
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