Ground Control ATC

New in 1.5: Game Center leaderboards for every airport, 12 achievements and an easier start. Run the ground and tower at 12 real airports, from Gatwick to Atlanta.

Take the ground and tower positions at real-world airports and keep the traffic moving.

Ground Control is an air traffic control game built for iPad. Clear arrivals to land, pick the right stand for every aircraft, approve pushbacks, send departures along real taxiways and launch them on time — without ever compromising runway safety.

12 REAL AIRPORTS • London Gatwick — the world's busiest single-runway airport (free) • One runway: San Diego, Geneva, London Stansted • Two runways: Budapest, Vienna, Prague, London Heathrow • Four and more: Frankfurt, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam Schiphol, Atlanta Layouts, taxiway names, holding points and stands are based on OpenStreetMap data, in a simplified and a full-size version of every airport. Every airport after Gatwick is an airport pack. Get single airports, or All Airports: every airport today and every airport added in future updates.

EASY TO READ, HARD TO MASTER • Select an aircraft and its taxi clearance is ready: a suggested route plus alternatives to choose from, drawn on the map • Every taxiing aircraft shows where it is going • Countdowns for touchdown, arrival at the stand, end of the turnaround and the departure slot • A runway bar with the next arrival, the departure order and wake turbulence timing • GO / WAIT signs at the runway, readable with any colour vision • Two aircraft nose to nose? Call a tug and tow one back

GROUND LOGISTICS • Five stand size classes, from business jets to the A380, plus cargo and GA aprons • Contact and remote stands, hub carriers and freighters with different needs • Turnarounds with deboarding, catering, fuelling, boarding and cargo — and the occasional delay • Pushbacks in the direction you choose, departure slots and punctuality • Tows that reposition aircraft from remote stands to the gates

TOWER • Landing, line-up and take-off clearances, runway crossings behind red stop bars • Wake turbulence separation, go-arounds, runway incursions and safety strikes

MORE WAYS TO PLAY • Three career shifts per airport, endless free play and shift types: departure bank, arrival bank, mixed traffic and cargo night • New traffic every time you play: arrivals come in waves, never as a fixed program • Optional emergencies, changing weather with low visibility and thunderstorms, and night operations with airfield lighting and maintenance closures • Game Center: an Airport Score and a Clean Streak for every airport, a Total Score and achievements • Map or ground-radar display, radio phraseology, pause and 2× / 4× time, keyboard shortcuts

All airlines are fictional. Not for real-world navigation.