App Profile: Hello Tower

metalpilot

Rating: 4/5

This is a good simulation/game of being a combined tower and ground controller. The graphics are really good and the aircraft are real and accurate. Departure slot times with wake turbulence separation is realistic to real world. However a few fixes I would do to get a 5th star. Some airport orientations are off (unless that is intentional). Runway 15 for Warsaw is facing 090 degrees east. And Runway 11 for Warsaw is like 030 degrees north east. I am not sure if ground radars actually display like this, but being a real world airline pilot, most displays reference north as 360. Also for taxiing, there should be a “continue taxi” if you have to stop an aircraft. You shouldn’t have to redraw the taxi if they are just stopping to yield to another aircraft. You could also add “follow traffic ahead” to make clearances abbreviated. Not sure I am a fan of the new arrows showing the direction of taxi. But all in all this is little stuff. This is a wonderful sim/game with lots of potential to be the best out there.

tacogy3

Rating: 5/5

Once I got a hang of it, this game really turned out to be a lot of fun and very realistic, which I enjoy. I like that it has the timeslots for taking off along with the sequence to follow with the aircraft. I also like to fine tuned controls like pushing back the aircraft in certain directions and being able to select the taxiways. I do wish there was an endless mode. I also wish when you zoom in that the boxes for the aircraft got a little bit bigger instead of staying small and the same size as the info boxes can be hard to read. Maybe next you could expand it to be in the tower control and in charge of approach and landing the aircraft that are arriving. It’s a great game and I highly recommend you buy it.

Tjc_75

Rating: 5/5

I can’t attest to whether the game is realistic or not but man do I enjoy it. This is my go to game on my phone. The controls take a little getting used to but once you understand it you’re good to go. I’ve played every map on hard several times through. Just hoping for updates with more maps and challenges to come. Highly recommend.