Flight Club

Flight Club Free Game

Rated 4.46/5 (345) —  Free Android application by cloudwalker

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About Flight Club

Flight Club is a soaring simulation game.

It has thermal triggers, clouds forming and decaying in cycles above them, wind drift, hills with ridge lift, and three type of soaring vehicles: sailplanes, hanggliders and paragliders.

Rather than classic simulations, it's more of an 'arcade' type - everything happens much faster than in reality. Other than that it tries to simulate real soaring conditions as much as possible:
- each trigger has it's own cycle
- thermals differ by strength
- lift strength falls off from core center
- thermals are sloped in the wind
- clouds drift across ground
- cloud shadows are realistic with respect to sun position (option to have them directly bellow)
- variable cloudbase height on the same task
- blue thermals (no cloud above)
- invisible triggers (no indication of a trigger on the ground)
- birds that fly around and mark thermals for you
- hills that produce ridge lift to a certain height
- each glider type has typical speed, glide, sink, turn radius and polars with several points


Try to reach the goal as fast as possible or fly further and save your score to Google Leaderboards!


There are 11 tasks to choose from, with changing conditions:
- short (50km) or long (160km) tasks
- number of turnpoints
- cloudbase height
- wind strength and direction
- clouds or blue thermals
- hills
- visible or invisible triggers
- time based or free distance (max distance possible: 1000km+ on sailplane)
- different triggers every day for the same task


You have several onscreen buttons:
+/- - zooming in/out
p - pause button (using it will invalidate your score for uploading to Google Leaderboards)
x - for immediate landing (in multiplayer mode replaces p button)
1 - view player from behind with focus on next turn-point (glider in view)
2 - cycle through other players/AI gliders
3 - view current 'node' from above (task is divided into nodes to facilitate loading and activating their triggers and clouds as player approaches them)
4 - view current node from side at distance, at half cloudbase height
5 - view complete task from above (use sparingly on big tasks because all nodes and their triggers wake up - may lessen performance)
6 - view from cockpit (glider not in view)


Glider is controlled by tapping certain part's of screen: please study the control overlay screen on task start.


You can play solo game against several AI gliders or you can play with your friends in local Multiplayer mode!

For multiplayer mode all players must be connected to the same WIFI access point. First start Multiplayer game on first device and only after choosing glider type and task and you should start multiplayer on other devices. If game server was not detected on client devices you can manually enter server IP address. Server IP is shown in info section of the screen on the device that is acting as a Game Server.

Online Multiplayer mode is in test phase, please don't expect it to work seamlessly. Notably, movement of other players will not be smooth....
Important thing to note is that once all players that joined particular race (glider type + task) tap 'Start' race starts and although other players can enter they cannot join the race until all racers are on the ground again. Anyway, they can watch the race from perspective of other players (tap number 2 to move camera between racers).


This is still early release so have patience with possible bugs (especially in multiplayer mode) or missing features.
It will improve, even more with your suggestions!



CREDITS: Original Java Applet game 'Flight Club' was written by late Dan Burton. Source from: http://www.glider-pilot.co.uk/Flight%20club/hg.htm.

How to Download / Install

Download and install Flight Club version 0.7.5 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.cloudwalk.flightclub, download Flight Club.apk

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Game History & Updates

What's Changed
Fixed 2 launch icons bug
Version update Flight Club was updated to version 0.7.5
More downloads  Flight Club reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads  Flight Club reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update Flight Club was updated to version 0.7.2

What are users saying about Flight Club

N70%
by N####:

Great!!! Sometimes the camera runs away, maybe because of zoom buttons (not turning point)

N70%
by N####:

Too complicated

O70%
by O####:

Lots of potential as well

R70%
by R####:

Good fun for the rainy days!

I70%
by I####:

Good

V70%
by V####:

Missed this game so much. Not quite as playable as the original but still brilliant. Thanks

U70%
by U####:

No frills soaring. locate, core, and move as efficiently as possible to complete a solid assortment of tasks. The leaderboards add significantly to the gameplay. Love it

U70%
by U####:

I need a tutorial

X70%
by X####:

Lots of potential as well

J70%
by J####:

Good fun for the rainy days!

K70%
by K####:

All the basics of soaring flight. Could do with some terrain like ridges and hills affected by prevailing wind direction.

K70%
by K####:

Visually accurate good for the experienced, but not easily understood newcomers to para sailing.

J70%
by J####:

I love this so much. All you have to do is relax, find the thermals, and fly. Very fun to play on WiFi with friends-- a little clunky to set up, but a great time once you get it working.

K70%
by K####:

It's ok

U70%
by U####:

Just need more work on graphics

K70%
by K####:

I love this game

N70%
by N####:

Not much fun.

P70%
by P####:

Rainy day comps everyone should have this

N70%
by N####:

Ok this game is just great , I think it'd be a great idea to add a comp , make 3 or 4 tasks and people can only fly it once and see the results .. that's the only true way to see who's the best :) !!

N70%
by N####:

Brilliant little pg/hg/glider sim. Well done even more fun with the new tasks. Cheers.

N70%
by N####:

Great Fun for the Whole Family

K70%
by K####:

Can ya make thermals drift at an angle, though, and make the wind push the glider? Also a sink alarm on the vario?

G70%
by G####:

Macht richtig Spaß!

K70%
by K####:

A great time filler whilst parawaiting.

K70%
by K####:

Thank you for bringing Flight Club back, this is a lot of fun for the rainy days or parawaiting, ha! Great work updating and porting the game, thumb up!

K70%
by K####:

Worked fine until the recent update .....now it just freezes on startup ...tried uninstalling/reinstalling....still freezes.

E70%
by E####:

Good fun for the rainy days!

E70%
by E####:

I know this game since long. Great to see it ported to Android. It preserves the original spirit of the game, simplicity. Looking forward to see how it evolves.

J70%
by J####:

Just need more work on graphics

C70%
by C####:

Great , maybe add a only blue thermal task with no clouds and a super high base of like 3000 metres , and some tree lines for triggers , dams and mountains .

O70%
by O####:

I'm a HG pilot and this looks ideal to hone my XC skills. It's great as-is, but control via tablet tilt sensor would be very cool, as well as audible speed "wind in your ears". That would really capture the visceral feeling of free flying. Thanks!

K70%
by K####:

I was recently paragliding and I looked around to find clouds at different heights then others. I would like you to add this to the game if possible so you can climb out higher than other spots. This could be a good addition to the game as well.

K70%
by K####:

arcade sim of a gliding race. just excellent !

X70%
by X####:

Excellent game! Very addictive; )

K70%
by K####:

Always loved playing this on the PC and now it's great to play it on the go. Regular updates

Z70%
by Z####:

I want multiplayer Bluetooth and online multiplayer added in future updates. Thanks

K70%
by K####:

While a game is going on I would like to see who is who and what position they are at when I am playing a multiplayer game.

K70%
by K####:

I can't play in multiplayer with friends it doesn't works how can we do that pls ?

Y70%
by Y####:

Getting better and better with the updates. Missing menu button on my nexus 5, other apps have a small button on the side of the home button bar. It works good on my g-pad with its dedicated menu button

I70%
by I####:

Get to pay this little been again


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