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Map: Apple Maps

Where is this flight heading?

An iPhone game about real planes in the sky. Spot a flight mid-air, guess the airport it’s heading for, and score by how close you land.

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Free to play. First Class from the App Store.

Clive says: Pointy end goes first. Free tip.

Three ways to play

Daily

Five flights a day, the same five for everyone. Four ask where the plane is heading; the third asks where it took off from. Score up to 30,000, keep your streak going, and share the result without giving anything away.

A Daily round: a plane over Lithuania on the map, the question Where is this flight heading, and an airport search field. The Daily summary: 6,212 of 30,000, the five flights with their distances, and a Share result button.

Endless

Recorded flights from all over the world, one after another, for as long as you like. Skip the ones you don’t fancy and see how many you can get in a row. Endless is free, with no limit on how many rounds you play.

An Endless result: San Diego to San Francisco, spot on again, two in a row, 5,912 points. A result marked spot on: Kraków to Tallinn, 5,252 points with the distance and speed bonus breakdown.

Live

The planes above you, right now. SkyGuess draws your sky as a dome that turns with your phone. Or hold your phone up in Camera view, and markers show where to look for each plane. Find the one you’re looking at, then guess where it’s going.

Planes you can likely see from where you stand score ×1.5. Three Live rounds a day are free, from the dome or from Camera view.

Live: a sky dome facing north-west with planes plotted by direction and height, and a list starting NW, 25 degrees up, 23 km, in sight. Camera view: markers over the sky show where to look for each plane, with its direction and height.

How a round works

  1. See the plane

    A real flight on the map, with the last few minutes of its track and a dotted line for where it’s pointing.

  2. Take a clue, if you like

    Altitude and speed, aircraft type, airline, callsign, flight time. Each one costs part of the round.

  3. Pick the airport

    Search by city, name or code, or tap it on the map.

  4. Score

    The closer and quicker, the more points. Then the map shows where it really went.

The scoring

Distance
Up to 5,000 points for the exact airport, falling away the further your guess lands.
Speed
Up to 1,000 more if you’re quick and close. The bonus is full for the first 5 seconds and gone by 90.
Clues
Each one costs part of the round, from 10% to 25%. The app shows the cost before you open it.
In sight
In Live, a plane you can likely see scores ×1.5.

Trophies, streaks and a Spotter Book

  • 31 trophies, free for everyone

    Bronze, Silver and Gold trophies for every mode, and the Golden Pigeon for earning all the others. They’re mirrored to Game Center if you use it.

  • Your Spotter Book

    Every Live round you play goes in the book: where you stood, the plane, your guess and your score. Every entry is yours to keep, free.

  • Streaks

    Play the Daily each day and your streak grows. Endless keeps count of how many you get in a row.

Your units, your map

Distances in kilometres, miles or nautical miles; altitude in feet or metres; speed in knots, km/h or mph. And five map styles: Standard, Colourful, Dark, Satellite and Hybrid.

The trophy cabinet: 12 of 31 earned, the Golden Pigeon at 12 of 30, and Daily and Endless trophies in Bronze, Silver and Gold. A Spotter Book entry: Manchester to Nice, spotted from London, 25 degrees up, guessed Frankfurt, 3,454 points.

Clive says: Navigator. Self-appointed. Rarely wrong, often surprised.

Meet Clive

Clive is a pigeon with an aviation headset and no qualifications. He keeps you company between flights, one line at a time, and takes partial credit for your good guesses.

He never tells you the answer. He doesn’t know it.

He has disguises, too. Earn the Regular trophy and he puts on his racing kit; First Class adds the rest.

First Class

Daily, Endless, Camera view, the Spotter Book and every trophy are free, with three Live rounds a day. First Class is for when you want more of the sky.

  • Unlimited Live roundsNo daily limit
  • Follow me alertsLook up on cue
  • Spotter Book collectionsTypes, airlines, countries
  • Streak freeze2 a month, used for you
  • Your statsEvery mode, every streak
  • More of Clive’s disguisesFive more disguises

Monthly, or yearly with a 7-day free trial. Or pay once for First Class for life. Everything First Class subscribers get, for good.

Early bird price First Class costs less while SkyGuess is new.

See First Class

Today’s five flights are already in the air.

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