HGS Flight vs Flight Sim 2024
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 Sim 2024
Experience realistic flight simulation with a wide variety of aircraft and endless environments. Complete engaging missions and enjoy detailed aircraft models with interactive components. This simulator offers multiple camera views and realistic crash damage.
- 20+ Detailed Realistic Airplanes
- 6 Endless Realistic Environments
- Fun & Interactive Missions
- Realistic Crashes with Visual Damage
- Multiple Camera Views
- 4 Axis Aircraft Control
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The creators of Train Sim, (#1 Mobile Train Simulator) are happy to extend our simulation offering by releasing Flight Sim a new realistic Flight Simulator. Take the controls and fly realistic airplanes in this high quality Flight Simulator. Control your aircraft through endless environments that includes cities, mountains, lakes, oceans and farms, or complete one of many missions available. Flight Sim features realistically modelled airplanes with interior cabins and moving components. This is a must for any flight simulator fans. FEATURES -20+ Detailed Realistic Airplanes -6 Endless Realistic Environments -Fun & Interactive Missions -Realistic Crashes with Visual Damage -Multiple Camera Views including pilot seat. -Multiple Missions -4 Axis Aircraft Control -No in game purchases
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HGS Flight at 5.0 against Flight Sim 2024's 4.2. HGS Flight also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Flight Sim 2024's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 40 months) and ratings volume (766 vs 4). On price and in-app purchases 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.
HGS Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Sim 2024 has 766 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 66% of Flight Sim 2024's.
HGS Flight ships an update every 40 months, Flight Sim 2024 every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | HGS Flight | Flight Sim 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.2 (766 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 65.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 766 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 40 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rockwell Collins, Inc. | 1788918 Alberta Ltd |
Customer experience
HGS Flight
Flight Sim 2024
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 Sim 2024
From 766 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent flight simulator
- 👍 Decent physics and free planes
- 👍 Unique and interesting aircraft
- 👍 Calming and fun to play
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and freezes
- 🔋 Lags and performance issues
- 👎 Poor graphics and unrealistic physics
- 👎 Difficult controls and calibration
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 Sim 2024
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to complete mission 10 due to missing destination marker
- Planes going through objects and terrain during crashes
- Inconsistent crash detection and landing mechanics
- Frequent crashes and freezes, especially on older devices
Requested features
8 requests- More unlockable features like missions, maps, aircraft, and liveries
- Addition of more passenger planes like Boeing 747, 737, A320, A330, etc.
- Inclusion of military jets like F-22 Raptor and Rafale
- Passenger compartment view with 360-degree camera
- Improved crash physics and destruction effects
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- Addition of emergency vehicles and emergency sounds
- More detailed avionics and realistic flight dynamics
- Multiplayer and online features
In-app purchases
HGS Flight
No in-app purchases
Flight Sim 2024
No in-app purchases
Questions
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