IPACS

Aerofly FS Features

Many Supported Devices

Aerofly FS supports all major virtual reality systems as well as a wide range of input devices, including USB controllers, TrackIR, and Tobii Eye Tracking.

Enjoy a realistic flying experience on your monitor or immerse yourself in the virtual world of aviation. Operate the cockpit with virtual hands and experience an exceptionally realistic sense of flight.

Global Navigation Database

Aerofly FS includes a built-in global navigation database that provides worldwide coverage for airports, waypoints, and navaids. It supports standard instrument procedures, including Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), VORs, NDBs, SIDs, STARs, and full route planning even inside the cockpit.

Pilot Log Book and Achievements

  • Pilot and aircraft log books to review recent flight paths and to track flight time
  • Statistics of takeoffs, landings and flight time per aircraft and in different aircraft categories
  • Achievements for different aircraft categories
  • Achievements are non-invasive, there is no pop-up or sound during flight

Carrier

Take off and land with suitable aircraft on a moving aircraft carrier.

  • Catapult launches from the flight deck
  • Arrested landings using a tailhook
  • F/A-18C and F4U Corsair equipped with fully functional tailhooks

The carrier’s movement and the angled approach make every landing a true challenge.

1000+ POI worldwide

Explore more than 1,000 points of interest around the world, including stunning bridges, towering skyscrapers, historic churches, magnificent palaces, and entire city districts.

  • Every landmark is handcrafted and highly detailed
  • Designed for realistic visual navigation and breathtaking sightseeing across the globe

300+ different liveries

With Aerofly FS, you gain access to more than 300 different aircraft liveries from well-known airlines around the world.

  • Boeing 737-800 with over 70 liveries
  • Airbus A320 with 48 liveries
  • Airbus A319 representing more than 30 airlines

Experience international aviation with many additional aircraft types, variants, and airline paint schemes.

Fuel and Payload

A higher mass directly affects the aircraft’s performance.

  • Adjustable fuel and payload weights in all airliners
  • A flight assistant that checks which values are affected by changes in fuel and payload

Detailed Interiors

The cockpits and interiors in Aerofly FS are designed with exceptional attention to detail. High-resolution textures, authentic materials, and faithfully recreated layouts deliver a truly immersive flying experience.

  • Open canopies, doors, and access panels
  • Fully modeled 3D cabins in the A350, LJ45, C90GTx, Ju-52, C172, UH-60, and many other aircraft

Air Traffic

  • Simulated air traffic based on tens of thousands of real world global airline flights
  • Airline, Cross country and local flights
  • Optional flight labels and flight path traces
  • Animated aircraft models with rotating propellers, moving flaps and landing gear

Advanced Night Lighting

  • Aircraft lights illuminate the ground in multiple colors
  • Apron flood lights
  • Runway, PAPI and approach lights
  • Taxiway lights
  • Night lighting for cities, bridges, airport buildings and terminals
  • Adjustable panel lights, realistic cockpit illumination and dimmable displays

Customizable Flight Conditions

  • Dynamically change the time of day during the flight
  • Adjust the visibility on the fly
  • Cumulus and cirrus cloud density and height
  • Adjustable wind and turbulence
  • Thermals and slope updrafts

Realistic & High Quality Aircraft Modeling

  • Fully interactive high detail 3D modeled virtual cockpits
  • All aircraft fully VR hands compatible
  • Accurate 3D model shapes
  • High resolution textures and realistic materials

Growing System Depth

  • Emergency gear extension and „Red Gear Not Down“ arrow at A319, A320neo, A321
  • Ram Air Turbine (RAT) for the Boeing 787
  • Flight state saved between sessions

Modern Simulation Engine

  • Modern C++ core, custom coded game engine
  • Native 64bit and Multithreading
  • Vulkan renderer & VR support
  • Very fast loading times and very high frame rates
  • Background loading to prevent stutters

Updates and Expansions

Aerofly FS is continuously updated and expanded with new content and features.

  • More aircraft, more airlines, more airports.
  • Additional features for even greater realism and depth.
  • Continuous updates and improvements

Tutorials & Help

In the tutorial section of this website, you will find comprehensive guides to help you get started in the world of flight simulation.

  • Aircraft tutorials
  • Program and aircraft systems
  • Learn to fly

Aircraft

Realistic Physics

  • Full multibody simulation - Fuselage, wings, stabilizers, engines, landing gear parts and more all move independently from each other based on physics laws
  • Native simulation of wing flex - no animation
  • Native simulation of landing gear compression and flex - no animation
  • Realistic ground and flight physics
  • Detailed aerodynamics simulation using multiple airfoils and control surfaces per wing with realistic simulation of flaps, slats and spoilers
  • Simulation of full 360° airfoils so even deep stalls or flat spins are fully simulated
  • Realtime thermodynamic cycle simulation for turbofan, turboprop and turboshaft engines
Show Aircraft

Custom Coded Aircraft Systems

  • Very high level of system depth and thousands of custom coded systems, caution and warning systems
  • Full cold & dark startups in most aircraft
  • Realistic Autopilot that operates just like the real thing, with full LNAV/VNAV features, auto-land, protections and mode reversions
  • FMS programming using MCDU and CDU devices including IFR procedures like departures, arrivals and approaches
  • Custom fly-by-wire simulations with realistic handling qualities and protections
  • Authentic EFIS displays including electronic checklists in modern airliners
  • Realistic radar altitude callouts

Scenery & Airports

  • Photorealistic aerial images
  • Detailed 3D Cities
  • Comprehensive scenery coverage with 3D buildings and trees
  • Custom modeled points of interest (POIs) like castles, famous buildings (in Europe more than 500 POIs)
  • New library buildings and structures like towers, cranes, antennas, powerlines, churches, chimneys and cooling towers, fuel tanks and grain silos, etc.
  • New wind-turbines that rotate in the wind
  • New building types and textures, new building and roof shapes
  • 1200+ handmade airports in Europe and the USA
  • Highly detailed hand modeled airports
  • Custom modeled terminal buildings for international airports
  • New apron flood lights
  • New taxiway edge and centerline lights
  • New hold short guard lights