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Now you can simulate flying anywhere in the world as a commercial passenger, from takeoff to touchdown. Terrain, weather, and realtime sun position included. Don't worry, the latest release now features legs, so you can get up and go to the bathroom on longer flights. Enjoy!",{"problem":53,"audience":53,"pricing":53,"motivation":54,"time_to_build":53,"stack":64,"openness":65,"stage":66,"team_size":67},null,{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"Maker built it for fun, to recreate the experience of staring out a plane window.","maker",[58,61],{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"49727583","well, I'm the kind of person who stares out the window for the entire flight, so to me this sounded fun to make and recreate that experience. but really, no point at all to this…",{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"49726270","awesome, I will look at each of these, one at a time. my bigger issue today was that I was not expecting so many people to try the app and have unoptimized bandwidth costs.…",[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":69,"objections":101,"requests":140,"questions":172,"alternatives":195},[70,86],{"value":71,"source":72,"evidence":73},"Funny and well-detailed recreation of flying as a passenger","commenter",[74,78,82],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"49722531","noufalibrahim","It's very nicely done. I snapped the seatbelt on and that dread of a long boring flight automatically hit me. :)",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"49726815","classictraffic","This is really neat! I loved flying from MDW to ORD",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"49727187","atonse","Wow, at first, I thought \"this is wonderfully silly\" but within about 45 seconds of playing with it, I instantly wanted the window seat and thought, wow... I could see what it's…",{"value":87,"source":72,"evidence":88},"Could help people with fear of flying or aerophobia",[89,93,97],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"49723214","lIl-IIIl","Might be helpful for people who have never flown.",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"49742996","joecarrot","I have a late in life aerophobia, and I've been looking for a way to desensitize from a controlled environment. This might actually be pretty helpful for someone like me! My…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"49694914","lejeanvaljean","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…",[102,125],{"value":103,"source":72,"evidence":104},"Performance problems: crashes, high CPU use and slow frame rate on phones and laptops",[105,109,113,117,121],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"49722442","etatester","Crashed within 10 seconds on iPhone 17 Pro. Love the vibes",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"49723953","LukaD","Wow, this is so unbelievably unoptimized. The sound of my computer fans makes it so immersive. The shadow map is being rendered twice with 300+ draw calls and 1M+ triangles. Full…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"49724157","ferflowhq","Nice idea. But would be better if there are other passengers as well. Also somehow has slow frame rate.",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"49731899","tsegratis","my flight crashed... due to lack of memory i assume, brave browser. surprizingly little existential terror as it went down. i was quite brave about it",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"49734368","mikeaskew4","Started cool. But kept crashing (not in the fun way).",{"value":126,"source":72,"evidence":127},"Login panel is intrusive and hard to dismiss",[128,132,136],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"49722228","flawed_crater","Please remove the login screen. Is love to try this.",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"49722510","wafflemaker","Had to use uBlockOrigin to remove the login prompt. Think there could be a way to dismiss it without tricks like that.",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"49724230","ramigb","Nice concept but It would've been better if you don't force people to sign in with the auth box always shown I had to delete it from the node tree using chrome devtools. also why…",[141,156,164],{"value":142,"source":72,"evidence":143},"Add a window seat option and seat selection",[144,148,152],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"49732487","AshleyGrant","Please add the ability to sit in a window seat. It'd be awesome to also be able to pick a seat. Also, the login UI is annoying, it'd be nice if it was hidden by default. Another…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"49722473","zergrush","really wish i could sit by the window",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"49729350","dnpls","That's genius hahaha but damn, give me a window seat at least!",{"value":157,"source":72,"evidence":158},"Add multiplayer or other passengers on the flight",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"49723522","gabriel666smith","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…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},{"value":165,"source":72,"evidence":166},"Allow arrow keys or WASD movement in the cabin",[167,171],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"49726677","pattle","This is brilliant. Some improvements I'd suggest - Let me use the arrow keys to walk around the plane, having to keep double clicking on the floor to move is quite annoying -…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},[173,184],{"value":174,"source":72,"evidence":175},"Can the flight be fast-forwarded or paused?",[176,180],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"49741799","hasilt","great work! It would have been helpful if we can fast forward flight time, like what if I want to experience the landing at particular airport ? Currently, I have to wait the…",{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"49726361","edwardbonnett","can you pause halfway through a flight and come back to it?",{"value":185,"source":72,"evidence":186},"Which engine and assets were used to build it?",[187,191],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"49731734","nsypteras","This is so cool! For someone unfamiliar with modern game design but interested in building something similar, how did you get the assets such as the seats for the game? Are they…",{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"49729126","jeffjeffersen","Idk why but why not. Can I ask you how long it took you to make and if you made your own engine for it or used one that already exists?",[196],{"value":197,"source":72,"evidence":198},"Airplane Mode (2020 Steam game)",[199],{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"49722636","drayfield","Or you could check out the non-vibe coded Airplane Mode from 2020: https:\u002F\u002Fstore.steampowered.com\u002Fapp\u002F931310\u002FAirplane_Mode\u002F",{"comments":204,"answered":39,"key":205},23,[206,209,212],{"id":207,"text":208},"49727565","Your comment made my day! Thanks for the insight, and thanks for playing :-)",{"id":210,"text":211},"49695152","Interesting, thanks for the idea. Would be pretty cool if this app did have some real-world applications, beyond being a bit of a meme app. Thanks for the comment!",{"id":213,"text":214},"49726914","thanks for the ideas, I will consider adding some of 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