Comparison

HGS Flight vs Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Head-up guidance system simulation
  • iPad-based flight control
  • Multiple weather conditions
  • Career and Challenge modes
  • Synthetic and Enhanced Vision
  • Real-world symbology
Features
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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.

About

Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017

Experience realistic flight physics with a vast selection of aircraft and over 2000 missions. Explore detailed global cities and airports, with customizable weather and flight parameters. Enjoy advanced aircraft controls and a comprehensive simulation environment.

Highlights
  • Realistic flight physics
  • 95+ aircraft types
  • +2000 missions
  • +600 airports worldwide
  • Customizable weather and time
  • Detailed 3D aircraft models
  • GPS route creation
Features
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Flight Simulator 2017 FlyWings is finally here! It contains many improvements and the flight physics are perfect! Enjoy a huge set of aircraft - 95 - and almost every air company! This is definitely the best flight simulator ever developed for macOS! Fly in more than +2000 missions, over +600 airports in 9 different cities around the world. Use our GPS tool to create your own routes. The first flight simulation with all city’s buildings and houses, all the airports have fingers, terminal, hangar, and taxiway lines. Real light system on the runways, with PAPI lights and more! The environment, scenario and 3D models are highly detailed, realistic air and ground traffic, change almost every simulation parameter, like visibility, temperature, turbulence, wind direction, all the weather conditions and hour of the flight. Fly in stormy weather, with lightings and heavy rain to test your skills! All the aircraft included in the simulator have specific modifications and special features, you will be able to choose the best aircraft that fits your needs! Aircraft features: - Choose between airplanes, helicopters, jet fighters, aerobatic planes and more! - Configure the model specification and family. - Choose one of the dozens of airline companies to fly your plane. - Configure fuel payload and weight. - Control all flaps, trims, spoilers, gear and turn engines on or off. - Very detailed 3D models of the planes. - Turn all the light signals on or off (Strobe, Landing, Transponder etc). - 9 different cameras. - Autopilot with speed, altitude, vertical speed and heading. Scenario and environment features: - +600 airports around the world - All airports have taxiway lines - All the cities have real buildings and houses - All airports have landing and take off lights - Audio settings - New details - Thousand+ miles in 9 cities: > New York > San Francisco > Chicago > Hawaii (enjoy the view of the volcanoes!) > Las Vegas > Los Angeles > Seattle > Washington D.C > Saint Martin - Weather conditions and hour option to choose when to fly. ***** Don’t forget to rate us! ***** Give us your feedback! All the updates we will be releasing for this flight simulator in the next weeks depend a lot on what you tell us!Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 Apple's Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Links to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy can be found below Privacy Policy: http://www.thetisgames.com/p/thetis-games-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: http://www.thetisgames.com/p/thetis-games-terms-of-service.html If you need to contact us, send an e-mail to support (at) thetisgames.com

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Flight Simulator FlyWings 20174 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HGS Flight at 88% against Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017's 38%. HGS Flight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 40 months) and ratings volume (809 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. HGS Flight asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HGS Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 has 809 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 38% of Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HGS Flight ships an update every 40 months, Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
HGS Flight versus Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHGS FlightFlight Simulator FlyWings 2017
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better3.5 (809 ratings)
Positive reviews88.2% of reviews — better38.5% of reviews
Number of ratings4809 — better
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB543 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRockwell Collins, Inc.Thetis Consulting

Customer experience

HGS Flight

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral4.4%
Negative7.4%

Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017

All ratings809 ratings
Positive60.8%
Neutral7.4%
Negative31.8%
Written reviews343 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral9.6%
Negative51.9%

User reviews

HGS Flight

From 4 App Store ratings

What 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 2017

From 809 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Best flight simulator
  • 👍 Realistic planes and controls
  • 👍 Great graphics
  • 👍 Fun and exciting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and crashes
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🤔 Confusing controls and tutorials
  • 🤔 Limited free content

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 2017

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Planes crashing on takeoff or landing
  • Autopilot not functioning properly
  • Missions not completing correctly
  • Frequent app crashes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free planes and missions
  • Ability to fly between cities/countries
  • Improved realism and physics
  • Better tutorials and guidance

In-app purchases

None

HGS Flight

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017

One-time10
  • Premium Club - Unlimited Fuel$1.99
  • Restore Fuel$1.99
  • All Space Shuttle$4.99
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  • Unlocks now all flights!$4.99
  • Unlocks all missions now!$4.99
  • All Special Helicoters$4.99
  • All Boeing 757$6.99
  • All Airbus 320$9.99
  • All Boeing 747$9.99
  • All Airbus 380$12.99

Questions

Is HGS Flight free?
HGS Flight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 free?
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HGS Flight or Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017?
HGS Flight is rated higher. HGS Flight averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 averages 3.5 from 809 ratings.
Do HGS Flight or Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 have ads?
Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 shows ads; HGS Flight does not.
Which is updated more often, HGS Flight or Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017?
HGS Flight ships an update every 40 months, and Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 weekly. Most recently, HGS Flight was updated on November 1, 2026 and Flight Simulator FlyWings 2017 on November 3, 2026.

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