F-Sim | Space Shuttle 2

4.0
188 reviews
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Everyone
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About this game

Here is the long-awaited successor to our critically acclaimed flight simulator. It simulates the Space Shuttle approach and landing in incredible detail and accuracy.

This is a remaster of our original F-Sim Space Shuttle, completely rewritten from scratch. New features include:
- Console quality graphics
- Interactive tutorials
- White Sands as a third landing site option
- Orbit mode

F-Sim Space Shuttle combines realistic flight simulation with stunning graphics and fun gameplay.

You’ve never landed a Space Shuttle before? We’ve got you covered: Included are several tutorials with varying degrees of autopilot assist. Our landing analysis and scoring system tells you exactly how to improve your next landing. It will make you come back and try again.

Each flight starts at either 10,000 feet, already aligned with the runway, or at up to 50,000 feet, before banking into the heading alignment cone. During descent, the Orbiter is an unpowered glider, so you will only have one chance to get it right. Astronauts used to call it a flying brick: Because of its 200,000 lbs. gross weight and low lift over drag ratio, the approach is six times steeper and two times faster than a typical airliner approach. After your first safe touchdown, chase that perfect landing, compare your high scores online with your friends, earn medals, and unlock achievements. Experiment with different wind conditions, night approaches, and even emergency scenarios or system failures. At the end of each flight, watch a replay from different camera angles.

You control the Orbiter’s pitch and roll axes by tilting your device. Alternatively, you may switch to on-screen analog sticks or use a gamepad. Rudder, speed brake, gear, and chute are usually handled by the autopilot, but you can have full manual control if you like. For beginners, we’ve added rectangles that visualize the desired approach path. Simply try to stay within the corridor of rectangles, and they’ll guide you right to the touchdown point. Advanced pilots can turn them off and rely on the instruments in the head-up display (HUD) instead. The simulated guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems are authentic replications of their counterparts in the real Orbiter, and the HUD features all the instruments real Space Shuttle commanders used to employ to skillfully land this unique aircraft. Now it’s your turn to give it a try.

A new orbit mode lets you take the Orbiter for a spin around the planet, and we’re working on a full atmospheric re-entry scenario, which, among other new features, will be released as free updates in the coming months.

There are no ads or in app purchases, and we don’t collect any personal data.
Updated on
Dec 4, 2021

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
168 reviews
T Lee
January 22, 2024
It's okay. If you owned the previous app like me, it doesn't have saved replays anymore, it's kind of buggy though at least no crashes, you can't adjust the weather as much as you could before, and the cockpit audio is the exact same script it had years ago. If you're a new player there's a lot to enjoy. If you had the original, it's so so.
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SkyTale Software GmbH
February 25, 2024
Thanks for your review. The weather is controlled automatically now, so you cannot longer set weather conditions to unrealistic values. The app just needs the current date and global position to calculate temperature, air pressure and friction in different heights. Bugs? Please report them to support@skytale-studios.com, thx.
David Grossman
February 25, 2024
This app is horrible. Such a downgrade from the original (which I'll stick with). Graphics from within the shuttle are so poor. It's so hard to see the runway. They keep promising shuttle control from orbit but it's been over a year and we're still waiting. UPDATE: The Developer asked for screenshots which I sent. His response: "Yeah whatever. It’s obviously not for you, play something else. Write your one star review if it makes you feel better but leave us alone. "
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SkyTale Software GmbH
February 25, 2024
Thanks for your nice review. This keeps us motivated to develop free updates for an app that till today's earning cover a fraction of its development costs.. Problems with the runaway visibility or flightdeck graphics quality have never been reported before, so please provide screenshots and do not use the app review feature for bug reports. Thanks
Mike Howard
January 20, 2022
This is a great refreshing of the game. I am very excited to see reentry mode. Graphics are super smooth and lifelike, no jitter at all. Controls are responsive, if a tad touchy. That's not a bad thing. Cockpit is beautiful. I played the original from the day it came out, and it remained a challenge. I am guessing that this will be the same. It was such a challenge that I had to put my perfect landings up on YouTube for posterity.
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SkyTale Software GmbH
January 22, 2022
Thank you for your feedback. We´re glad to hear that you´re enjoying the game.