Pretty cool! It was fun to figure out how to launch and fly, but I got bamboozled by “Maintain heading 340” after the takeoff because the flight instructions say “Maintain Runway heading” and I didn’t realize that’s only for TAKEOFF not in-flight.

The oddity was a bit underwhelming, but I see a lot of potential here!

I managed to take off without issue, and I was keeping the heading and altitude given to me by the tower just fine. After flying for about five minutes without any sort of input from the game, though, I started to wonder what was supposed to be happening. The checklist said once en route, "RPM - Set, Mixture - Set, Engine Gauges - Check." I thought maybe those would be the trigger to kick off whatever event was supposed to happen, but the only thing I could really fiddle with was the fuel mixture, and I didn't know what exactly it was meant to be set at. As for the others, I don't know how to set the RPM explicitly or how to tell the game that I've checked the gauges. In the end, I turned around just to try and get something to happen and crashed on purpose. It sounds like I definitely missed out on something, so please let me know if you can figure out what I wasn't doing! I have a little bit of background in aviation so this game is interesting to me, but I don't want to rate it until I actually experience the whole game.

I really like this concept but as someone with zero knowledge of flying whatsoever (don't even play flight sims) this was really hard to penetrate. Definitely partially my fault. I eventually got through it and completed it however!

If anything the scariest part was figuring out how to fly a plane after being in it for 10 seconds. I did my best to avoid the ending but I guess you can't? I'm curious if there is only one ending.

I think this is a super cool concept, mixing horror with hard simulation is an awesome combo that I wish people explored more.

Also visually the game is gorgeous, cool cockpit and level, I really love how the houses look in the darkness, the moodiness of the dark night flying is really well done and I loved the vibe.

One major thing that would improve it is subtitles! I'm sure to aviation fans the radio transmission is more understandable, but to most normal people the tower is virtually indecipherable, which made following their instructions even harder.

Also the first time I played I rolled back through the hangar, jacked up the accelerator and took off vertically from a stand still, but I did safely bring the plane back around and land despite saying nothing to ATC. I'm sure there would be a small fine for such behaviour.