Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by lIl-IIIl » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 7:40 AM UTC

apexalpha wrote: post #52

drayfield wrote: post #49

Or you could check out the non-vibe coded Airplane Mode from 2020: https://store.steampowered.com/app/931310/Airplane_Mode/

That's... why? I can understand slow games like EuroTruck or Farming Sim. But what's the point of this?

Might be helpful for people who have never flown.

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by tosti » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 7:45 AM UTC

etatester wrote: post #30

Crashed within 10 seconds on iPhone 17 Pro. Love the vibes

It's slow in FF, too. Cool for a flight simulator to crash, but it should simulate a plane crash. Not crash the simulator itself :)

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by tosti » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 7:52 AM UTC

lejeanvaljean wrote: post #4

You know what? I had fear of flying. I did a training with a pilot in a simulator, but it was in the cockpit. I don't have fear of flying in a simulator or in the cockpit. I have fear of flying as a passenger, I'm sit in a chair. That's what I would have liked during my training. I told that to Air France and they did not understand but this might seriously be useful.

I'm not afraid of the flight, for me its customs and surrendering all my data. They even want my balls ffs.

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by Walf » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 7:53 AM UTC

kinduff wrote: post #48

I asked for beef, they only had chicken. 10/10, average flight experience.

Beef or cow?

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by NietTim » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

drayfield wrote: post #49

Or you could check out the non-vibe coded Airplane Mode from 2020: https://store.steampowered.com/app/931310/Airplane_Mode/

> Mixed - 67% of the 355 user reviews for this game are positive.

And 10 euro, lol. I'll just go with the free one, thank you.

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by wazoox » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 8:12 AM UTC

Ah, it's flying Paris to Bogota in a 1 aisle, 4 seats per rank regional plane, pretty unusual if you ask me :)

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by jolmg » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 8:22 AM UTC

Stuck on 0h 01m elapsed after 12 minutes.

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by gabriel666smith » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 8:24 AM UTC

This is fun. I would love if it used real flights, and filled the cabin with the avatars of anyone else "on" that flight.

Slight bug report - might just be HN hug-of-death related - on Arc browser, mostly without it as the active tab, I seem to have been stuck over Slough for some time (an ignoble fate).

I believe Arc reduces resources allocated to background tabs, and I don't think it likes being a background tab.

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by vlabakje90 » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 8:29 AM UTC

tosti wrote: post #62

etatester wrote: post #30

Crashed within 10 seconds on iPhone 17 Pro. Love the vibes

It's slow in FF, too. Cool for a flight simulator to crash, but it should simulate a plane crash. Not crash the simulator itself :)

Immediately crashes my FF on Windows 11.

Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Post by khantsithu » Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 8:30 AM UTC

cool