Air traffic control games you can play right here: guide planes on a radar scope, practice for the controller hiring test, and learn the radio alphabet pilots use. No download, no sign-up.
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These free air traffic control games are made by Thank ATC, a site where travelers thank the controllers and pilots who get them home. Each one teaches a real piece of how the sky works.
Here you can play five free ATC games in your browser with no download: Sector Sim, a radar game where you guide planes to their exit gates and keep them apart; Number Flash and Left or Right?, drills like the ones on the FAA controller test; and quizzes on the phonetic alphabet and airline callsigns.
Yes. Every game on this page runs in your web browser on a computer or phone. Sector Sim is easiest with a mouse, and the others work great on a phone.
They practice the same kinds of skills public guides describe for the FAA’s hiring test, the ATSA: keeping aircraft apart on radar, short-term memory and quick left-or-right thinking. They’re practice, not the real test. See the ATC test practice page for what’s on the test.
It’s the set of words pilots and controllers use for letters so they can’t be misheard on the radio: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and so on through Zulu. The Phonetic Alphabet game teaches all 26.
Many callsigns come from history or were chosen to be clear on the radio. British Airways is “Speedbird” and American Airlines is “American” (America West’s “Cactus” lives on with American’s regional flights). The Callsign Match game quizzes you on them.
Yes. No accounts, no ads, and your best scores are saved only on your own device.
Leave a free thank-you on the wall of the facility that handled your flight, today's or one from years ago. No sign-up, about 30 seconds.
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