Carrier Landing HD is a high-end flight sim optimized for iOS devices, offering the following advantages:
Multiplayer Game:
The multiplayer mode supports authentic Air Combat and Deathmatch modes. You can team up with friends for realistic dogfights or join Deathmatch rooms to engage in intense battles with players from around the world.
Aerodynamics:
The aerodynamic model of each aircraft includes multiple components, with careful calculations of their inflow. As a result, the simulator realistically simulates the unique aerodynamic characteristics of many aircraft. This includes the high angle of attack maneuverability of F18 and F22, the ability of F14 to perform a full turn roll using only rudder, the pedal turn maneuver of F35 and F22, and the cobra maneuver of the Su series aerodynamic layout aircraft. The development process involved real pilots for testing and feedback.
Dynamics:
When a 40,000-pound carrier-based aircraft lands on the deck at a descent rate of 5 meters per second, the compression rebound of the landing gear and the damping of the suspension are finely adjusted to create the most realistic visual effects. The recoil force from each bullet is accurately calculated and applied to the aircraft. The simulator also implements rope dynamics simulations for arresting cables and aerial tanker refueling tubes, details that are often not found in many PC flight sims.
Flight Control System (FCS):
Modern fighters often utilize static instability layouts, making it challenging for pilots to fly without the intervention of FCS. The simulator implements an FCS component with the same algorithm as the real flight controller. Your control commands first enter the FCS, which calculates the result using angular velocity feedback or G-load feedback. The result is then passed to the servo to control the control surface.
Avionics:
The simulator implements a HUD based on the real HUD principle. The size and view angle of the HUD characters and symbols have been strictly verified against the HUD of corresponding real aircraft. This offers the most realistic HUD implementation available in the mobile market. The F18 currently features a fully-featured fire control radar, and fire control radars for other aircraft are also under development.
Arms:
Each missile in the simulator utilizes a real dynamic model, treating them as tiny aircraft. The guidance algorithm employs the same APN algorithm used in real missiles. The guidance results are transmitted to the missile's FCS, which then controls the control surface deflection for maneuvering. The initial speed of the gun bullet in the simulator strictly adheres to real data, accurately calculating the bullet's movement in each frame considering the effects of gravity and air resistance.
Earth Environment Rendering:
The simulator employs multiple scattering algorithms to calculate the color of the sky, ground, and objects, thanks to innovative optimization algorithms. It provides realistic sky colors at dusk and dynamic projections of the earth in the atmosphere. Whether flying at foggy sea levels or 50,000 feet high, you can genuinely feel the presence of the air.Additionally, the game utilizes real astronomical data to determine the positions of stars, the moon, and the sun.
This game as of right now is one of my favorites. So much in fact, that I am writing a review on it, which isn’t something I really do. This game has such insane graphics even for a mobile game! The way the gravity affects your flight and the pilot blacking out due to enduring high G force is very realistic. The only thing about this game that isn’t really detailed/looked at is the ground and water physics, sometimes the ground isn’t always realistic and your plane can’t crash by hitting the ground or water. The game reacts to water as a solid, too. However, everything else pretty much makes up for it. Now at first it may seem a little hard for carrier landings and such but after little practice it gets fun trying to do the best landing you can! This game does have a lot of potential and I feel the future updates will be amazing. Few things I would like to see added is slight tasks/missions. Maybe aircraft servicing when you land. One thing I don’t like is that the aircrafts the game lets you fly for free have no weapons or armaments. If you are going to make it to where the only aircraft with weapons are the ones you pay for, please at least just add an auto cannon on theF-35C Lighting II. Other than that, I would love to see where this game goes with future updates.
Developer please read
MrSlerpz
I’ve been playing for about a year now, and I absolutely love it! This is less of a review and more of a request. I know as of right now you’re working very hard on the F-35, so this is more for the future. I would love to see a system shutdown/engine shutdown feature, along with possibly a new aircraft, being the SU-57. There are a lot more aircraft in the world, but the SU-57, rivaling the F22, could give the game more variety in terms of other nations’ fighters. The aircraft is also just very sleek and one of the most maneuverable too. It could also be nice if the Hornet was instead an E/F Super Hornet, seeing as the legacy Hornet has already been retired, and isn’t as good as the Super Hornet. The only mod the F18 would have to go through is a minor exterior model tweak. No actual flight physics/properties would have to be changed, seeing as actual aircraft systems don’t apply/exist in-game. These are all just things I would love and feel would improve the game, but of course I have no control over this, and after all, this isn’t my game. I would love to see these additions possibly in the future, but with or without, I still love this simulator. Thanks for considering, let alone reading this!
What I wish would be added (edited) another edit
Not happy with this crap
The game is great. The graphics are great & it is a lot of fun compared to my other sims. The only thing I wish they would add, well things: a Rhino, Viper, & a Eagle (the Echo variant). I would buy those as add ons to the game & enjoy the different variety of airframes to play with. Well as of the latest update, the F-18 can’t even get off of the ground before the left wing dips, nose kicks right, then hops up. After which it comes back down then doesn’t left the ground until about 200KIAS, then IMMEDIATELY departs; performing a series of flips regardless of what inputs are put into the control surfaces. Then it finally hits the ground bouncing like a rubber superball that you get from a vending machine for a quarter. This is a very big disappointment as the F-18 is what I mainly fly in this sim. This needs a very serious & immediate fix ASAP. It would also really be nice to have at least an F-18E/F & an F-16N in this sim as well as an Eagle since you already have a Raptor in this sim. The debacle with the F-18 in the latest update drops this from a 4-⭐️ rating down to a 2-⭐️ rating for me.Well, this is again in need of an update. No matter which airframe I try to use there is a violent departure upon takeoff followed by an immediate crash. An update, in fact a regular series of updates should occur & again as I have said before new airframes should be introduced, mainly the F-18E/F, F-16N, & an F-15E (as there is already an F-22 in sim for purchase).
Finally A good jet game
Masonman49
It would be frankly dumb to give this game less than 4 stars. There’s reviews on here with 3 or even 1 Star, truthfully they don’t know what they’re talking about, or they are playing the game on a low grade device. The graphics are amazing for IOS and is one of the most high performance graphics on IOS today. There are few glitches and when there are glitches they’re minimal, no lag on an IPad Air 2, lag only occurs when super sonic air drag kicks in (the smoke/haze around the aircraft at high speeds). Landing on the aircraft carrier is a lot of fun and challenging, trying to get it perfect doesn’t really get old. After shooting down the 100th AI fighter get though does get tiring.I’d love to see more aircraft (maybe not just jets but other military aircraft like an C-130 gun ship), a bigger map/maps, better AI to dog fight with, Multiplayer mode if that’s possible, training modes, missions (such as real life missions that the military would actually do), ground targets, maybe even customizable paint jobs on planes would be an awesome feature down the road. I’d love to be able to play this game with friends so I think multiplayer would bring a whole never level to this already great game.
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The new F-15C is nearing completion. Given the substantial backend improvements made, we will offer it as a free addition in our upcoming new sim. Stay tuned!
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畅 刘
Size
1 GB
Category
Simulation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
