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Air traffic control game · iPad

Ground Control

Take the ground and tower positions at twelve real airports and keep the traffic moving — without ever compromising runway safety.

  • 12 real airports
  • Real taxiways from OpenStreetMap
  • Plays offline
  • No ads, no data collected
Coming soon to the App Store See the airports
London Heathrow at rush hour: flight strips, departure order and an occupied runway

// the job

Easy to read. Hard to master.

Every clearance is one tap away, and every aircraft tells you where it is going and when.

Taxi routes in one tap

Select an aircraft and its clearance is ready: a suggested route plus alternatives, drawn on the map. Tap a yellow sign to go another way.

Runway safety first

Landing, line-up and take-off clearances, crossings behind red stop bars, wake turbulence spacing, go-arounds and incursions.

Slots and punctuality

Every departure has a slot. Countdowns for touchdown, arrival on stand, end of turnaround and take-off keep you ahead.

Pushbacks and tows

Push aircraft back facing the way you choose, tow repositioning flights from remote stands to the gates, and tow back anyone stuck nose to nose.

Weather and nights

Rain, low visibility and thunderstorms; evening shifts fade into night with stop bars, centreline lights and maintenance closures.

Map or ground radar

A clean airport map or an ASDE-X-style ground radar, radio phraseology with optional voices, pause and 2× / 4× time.

12real airports
30runways
2,119stands, five size classes
19fictional airlines

// the airports

Twelve real airports

Layouts, taxiway names, holding points and stands from OpenStreetMap — each in a compact simplified version and the full-size airport.

LGWLondon Gatwick1 runway · free
BUDBudapest2 runways
FRAFrankfurt4 runways · A380s
SANSan Diego1 runway
GVAGeneva1 runway · business jets
STNLondon Stansted1 runway
VIEVienna2 runways
PRGPrague2 crossing runways
LHRLondon Heathrow2 runways · A380s
CDGParis Charles de Gaulle4 runways
AMSAmsterdam Schiphol5 runways
ATLAtlanta5 runways

// on the iPad

See it in action

// how it is sold

Start free. Pay once, if you like it.

Start free

London Gatwick — the world's busiest single-runway airport — with all its shifts, free.

Add any airport

Each airport is a one-time in-app purchase. No subscriptions, no ads.

Or get them all

All Airports unlocks every airport today and every airport added in future updates.