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About Flight Air Traffic Control
Flight Air Traffic Control is a line-drawing strategy game: aircraft enter your airspace and you draw each one a path to its runway. The difficulty is that paths cross, aircraft travel at different speeds, and two flight paths intersecting at the wrong moment is a collision.
It starts calm and becomes genuinely stressful, which is exactly the appeal — it's the closest most people will get to understanding why air traffic controllers are paid what they are.
How to play Flight Air Traffic Control
- Draw a path
- Click and drag from an aircraft to its runway
- Redraw
- Draw a new path to replace the old one
- Aircraft enter the airspace continuously.
- Draw a path from each one to its matching landing zone.
- Planes and helicopters use different runways.
- Avoid any two aircraft meeting; one collision ends the game.
Flight Air Traffic Control tips
- Route aircraft around the airspace edges rather than straight across the middle.
- Stagger arrivals by drawing longer paths for the ones you can't land yet.
- Redraw a path rather than watching a collision develop.
- Handle the fastest aircraft first; they close distance while you're busy.
Flight Air Traffic Control — questions
How do you avoid collisions?
Route aircraft around the edges rather than across the centre, and use longer looping paths to delay arrivals you can't handle yet. Redrawing a path at any time is free.
Do different aircraft land differently?
Yes — planes and helicopters use their own landing zones, so matching the aircraft to the right destination is part of the puzzle.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes — drag to draw paths. Nothing to install.
- Categories
- Strategy & Simulation
- Platform
- Web browser — desktop, mobile, and Chromebook
- Cost
- Free, no download or sign-up