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Fly a passenger airliner down to the runway, then swap the cockpit for a fighter jet chasing another plane. Airport circuits, bomb runs and twitchy drone work all load in your browser. Pick the aircraft, the rest is throttle and nerve.
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Takeoff is the easy part. Almost everything here asks you to hold a heading, manage speed and put the aircraft back on the ground in one piece. Some titles model a full airport circuit; others hand you a gunsight and a sky full of targets.
Runway circuits and airliner cockpits
Real Flight Simulator 3D goes for realism: line up, climb out, then come back round for a touchdown that punishes a heavy descent. Reflexes matter, but a steady approach matters more.
The Boeing 737-800 cockpit is the friendliest way in, with airport routes and a wide runway to aim at. The C-130 transport is the difficult one, a heavy airframe that sinks the moment your speed decays.
Dogfights and bombing runs
Combat flying drops the checklist and hands you weapons. Falcon Dogfight is a 3D shooter built around holding a turn tight enough to keep another fighter in your sights. Bomber at War comes from the Flash era of war games, with army targets below and reflex timing on every drop.
Drone control and rotor flying
Real Drone Simulator trades wings for rotors. The machine is small and twitchy, so it lives or dies on reflex corrections a metre off the ground. Rotorcraft fans will find more of the same in the helicopter listings, where hovering counts for as much as speed.
Across all three, the difficulty sits in the same place: airspeed. Bleed too much of it on a turn or a final approach and the run ends, whether you are flying an airliner or chasing a jet.