Simulator Station vs FlyNextLeg
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simulator Station
Enhance your flight simulation with a comprehensive companion app. It offers advanced cockpit control, flight planning tools, live traffic and weather data, and performance calculations for MSFS and X-Plane.
- Precision aircraft repositioning
- Interactive 3D globe with live traffic/weather
- Smart EFB with AI-powered NOTAMs
- Airline-grade performance calculator
- Voice-assisted checklists
- Payload and fuel planner
- Emergency and failure generator
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Transform your simulator into an airline cockpit with Simulator Station—the ultimate study-level Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and Instructor Operating Station for MSFS 2020/2024 and X-Plane. Built with an authentic airline interface, it gives you total command over every flight phase. PRECISION REPOSITIONING, APPROACH TRAINING & DOORS • Dynamic Approach Setup: Teleport to Left/Right Downwind, Base, or Final at 7, 10, or 15 NM. • Charts & Gate Spawning: View taxiways and runways. Tap any gate to spawn on the stand. • Navaid Teleport: Search any VOR/NDB and set radial, distance, heading, altitude, and speed. • Aircraft Door Control: Open and close all passenger doors and cargo hatches instantly. ULTIMATE WEATHER ENGINE & TRAINING SCENARIOS • 40+ Weather Scenarios: Train in severe conditions like microbursts and windshear. • Custom Weather Builder: Customize every atmospheric parameter from scratch with precision. • Real-Time Injection: Inject weather instantly via airport METARs or enable Live Weather. GROUND SERVICE HANDLING & GSX INTEGRATION • Full Ground Services: Request the jetway, set passenger counts, and dispatch refueling, catering, lavatory, GPU, cleaning, and de-icing trucks. • Pushback & GSX Control: Full pushback steering and seamless GSX integration for MSFS. ADVANCED FAILURE MANAGEMENT (MSFS 2020/2024 & X-PLANE) • 130+ System Failures: Trigger custom or timed failures in MSFS and X-Plane to practice emergencies, or clear all issues instantly with Fix All. INTERACTIVE TCAS & AI TRAFFIC INJECTION • Custom Traffic Spawning: Inject AI traffic onto your sim and ND with custom speed, altitude, separation, vertical speed, and crossing paths. • Takeoff, Landing & Incursions: Train behind traffic with realistic wake turbulence and react to surprise runway incursions. INTERACTIVE 3D GLOBE, LIVE TRAFFIC & WEATHER • Global Teleport & 3D Weather: Tap anywhere to teleport and view animated Rain, Wind, Temp, Precipitation, and Aurora layers. • Live Online Traffic: Track VATSIM/IVAO traffic telemetry with Airways, Holds, FIRs, and PIREPs. • Airport Info: View runways, ATC frequencies, TAF, METAR, NOTAMs, and Live Voice ATIS. INSTANT WORLD TOUR MODE • 30+ Global Landmarks: Teleport to 30+ iconic landmarks in under a second on iPhone and iPad in MSFS and X-Plane without setting up a flight. ADVANCED FLIGHT ANALYSIS & TELEMETRY • Takeoff & Landing Grading: View exact rotation and touchdown plots with instant landing grades (Smooth, Hard) and error breakdowns. • Flight Data Recorder: Record flights and analyze speed, bank, altitude, and VS on interactive profile graphs. DEEP SYSTEMS MONITORING & UNIVERSAL WEB FMC • Live Systems Monitor: Track hundreds of live aircraft and sim data points across every system in a clean dashboard. • Universal X-Plane FMC: Full Web FMC control supporting virtually all X-Plane aircraft. REMOTE INSTRUCTOR OPERATING STATION (IOS) • Live Remote Checkrides: Let an instructor join remotely with live screen viewing to move your plane, inject scenarios, and trigger failures. SMART EFB, PERFORMANCE, CO-PILOT & SIMBRIEF • Integrated Smart EFB: View Upper Air Wind/Temp and SIGWX charts, translate/read NOTAMs aloud with AI, and use T/O, Landing, Hold, and CRAFT scratchpads. • Performance Calculator: Compute V-speeds (V1, VR, V2), flaps, flex temps, and stopping distances via METAR, slope, and autobrakes with overrun alerts. • Virtual Pilot & Briefings: Voice A320/B737 checklists and automated T/O and landing audio briefings. • Payload & SimBrief: Adjust fuel (0-100%) and payload dynamically, and auto-import SimBrief flight plans. Privacy Policy: https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/privacy-policy-simulator-station/63f44b66-01cf-4a00-98bc-4e45fe33e2ce/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Download Simulator Station today, elevate your realism, and fly like a real-world captain.
FlyNextLeg
Discover real flight routes for your simulator, complete with actual aircraft, callsigns, and departure times. Track your flights live, receive airspace alerts, and access interactive checklists. Features a live map of Europe showing active air traffic control.
- Real flight routes across Europe
- Live ATC map
- Flight tracking with Live Activity
- Airspace and descent alerts
- Interactive aircraft checklists
- Filter flights by owned add-ons
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Pick a real airline flight and fly it in your simulator. NextLeg holds almost 40,000 real routes across Europe — with the actual aircraft types, callsigns and departure times — refreshed every week. FIND YOUR NEXT FLIGHT • Search by airport, aircraft, airline or how much time you have • Roll a random flight or take the challenge of the day • Mark the add-ons you own and see only flights you can really fly FLY WHERE THE CONTROLLERS ARE • Live map of Europe showing where VATSIM ATC is online right now • Every airport with positions and frequencies: DEL, GND, TWR, APP, ATIS • Watch your favourite airports and get a push the moment a controller opens TRACK YOUR FLIGHT • Follow your VATSIM flight live, with Live Activity on the lock screen • Alerts before you enter controlled airspace — with the frequency to call • Top-of-descent reminder so you never overshoot again • Interactive A320 and B737 checklists at your fingertips In six languages: English, Polski, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português. No account. No ads. Data: VATSIM.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FlyNextLeg at none against Simulator Station's shown. FlyNextLeg also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Simulator Station's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.5). 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.
Simulator Station ships an update every 3 weeks, FlyNextLeg every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simulator Station | FlyNextLeg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Osama Nabel | OLIWIER JAKUB GRZECHNIK |
Customer experience
Simulator Station
FlyNextLeg
In-app purchases
Simulator Station
No in-app purchases
FlyNextLeg
No in-app purchases
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