The best civilian flight simulation games

Civilian flight simulator games are very different from their combat counterpart. In Civilian flight games, as the name suggests, the player have to fly airliners, manage traffic, take offs and landings. No combat is involved. The most popular civilian flight simulators are the Microsoft Flight Simulator series.

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A320 Airbus

DOS1993 Thalion

Released in 1993 for DOS, A320 Airbus is less “Top Gun” and more “Intro to Aeronautical Bureaucracy.” It’s a flight simulator so realistic, even real pilots needed a manual. You’ll experience th...

Stunt Island

DOS1992protected The Assembly Line

SimCopter

Windows XP/98/951996 Maxis

Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

DOS1988 subLOGIC

Air Traffic Controller

DOS1985 Cascoly Software

Welcome to the most stressful job in the world - rendered in glorious 1985 DOS graphics! Air Traffic Controller lets you experience the thrill of herding aircraft without the luxury of coffee breaks or radar resolution. It’s...

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0

DOSMac OS1989 The Bruce Artwick Organization

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 (MSFS 4.0) is a flight simulation game released by Microsoft in 1989 for MS-DOS. It was the fourth major version of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series and introduced several improvements over its ...

Tracon: Air Traffic Control Simulator

DOS1989 Wesson International

Tracon for Windows

Windows 3.x1993 Wesson International

3-D Helicopter Simulator

DOS1987 Sierra On-Line

Released in 1987, this is less of a simulator and more of a fever dream where you pilot a flying box over a grid pretending to be terrain. 3-D Helicopter Simulator was ambitious for its time, with wireframe graphics that suggest a...

Solo Flight

DOS1985 MicroProse Software

Not many people know that the first games created by Sid Meier were flight simulations. Solo Flight was published by MicroProse in 1983 for Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari, and a year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in ...

Air Trax

DOS1983

Ah yes, Air Trax from 1983 - a game where “flight” is more of a philosophical concept. It’s clunky, it's slow, and it looks like it was coded in someone’s garage (because it probably was). But there’s...