Control Tower 3D: ATC Sim

DJ's Puzzle Palace, a DBA of Tapps Homes LLC

About this game

Step into the cab and take the Local Control position. Control Tower 3D puts you in the air traffic control tower with a real out-the-window view — sequence the arrivals, launch the departures, and above all, keep them separated.

This isn't a line-drawing game. You work the position the way a real tower controller does:

• SCAN THE RUNWAY. Sweep the full length before every clearance — a good scan earns your bonus and keeps you clear of incursions.
• SEQUENCE THE ARRIVALS. Clear them to land in order — number one, number two, number three — with proper spacing on final.
• WORK THE PATTERN. Extend upwind, extend downwind, turn base. Mix VFR pattern traffic with IFR arrivals, just like a real tower.
• RUN THE OPTIONS. Cleared for the option: low approach, touch-and-go, or stop-and-go.
• LAUNCH DEPARTURES. They taxi to the hold-short line on their own — get them airborne before the next arrival crosses the threshold, or it's a separation bust.
• HEAR THE RADIO. Pilots call up, read back clearances, and report the pattern with real text-to-speech voices.
• DON'T LET THEM MEET. Two aircraft in the same place is a very bad day.

MODES
• Easy, Normal, and Rush shifts — timed, graded A+ to F.
• Levels campaign — 8 levels: timed warm-ups, then clear 25 to 150 operations as traffic builds.
• Top 100 scoreboard, saved on your device.
• Day and Dusk settings, dynamic weather with approach lighting.

Separation rules modeled on FAA Order JO 7110.65. Built for anyone who's ever looked up at the tower and wondered what it takes.

NEW IN THE LATEST UPDATE
• Gyro look — turn your phone to scan the sky and sweep the runway, just like standing in the cab.
• Neon ATC data blocks tag every aircraft with callsign, type, distance and sequence — green when cleared, yellow when they need attention, red when it's urgent.
• Sharper airfield graphics: weathered runway with rubber-marked touchdown zones, rolling countryside, and a cleaner phone-friendly HUD.

Whether you search for airport games, plane landing games, flight control, radar games, aviation sims, or an air traffic control tower simulator — this is the tower, and the position is yours. Fully offline, no account, free.

A DJ's Puzzle Palace game.

What’s new

First release: 3D out-the-window tower view, 8-level campaign, timed shifts, verbal pilot radio calls, FAA-style separation rules.