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Backyard Pilot – Simulation Game Review
Backyard Pilot is a Simulation/Entertainment/Casual game from Quantum Design Group, first launched in 28th April 2011.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 647+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Backyard Pilot Stand Out
Ding… the pilot has turned on the Fasten Seat Belt sign! Things are going to get dicey! Whoa Ho! Someone left the engines running and now you get to pilot your own plane! Backyard Pilot lets you have all the fun the big boys have by flying your plane from airport to airport delivering cargo and passengers. No need to spend days in flight school. Twenty-eight levels of mind numbing fun.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Backyard Pilot is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th February 2013
Recent improvements include:
Improved graphics and gameplay. 72 new planes added.
Download & Availability
Backyard Pilot is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Backyard Pilot on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Please update this game!!! This game needs to come back 2d games are the best.
Please update to the latest ios because im really ticked now first pilot witch we bought evrything in and then when it became 3D we lost everything and got no money back so please please bring this back or put the old version of pilot up as well.
This is a fantastic great awesome game. We love it so much, we really enjoy it so entertaining, it is our favorite game. Best game we have ever played before. Thank you.
It keeps us occupied when we're bored and it entertains us when we need entertainment it's awsome.
Best app in the world beside aroily fly.
Cant even play. Crashes wen we start it. Left a review to unlock another plane that wont wrk.
Its great but how do we fly to the next airport/? But we also realy like the planes.
We really like this game/simulator allot! But it is kind of irritating that you have to buy each aircraft type separately! Maybe for future you can make a PRO version that you need to buy,with all of the aircraft types already included!? But other than that,very nice and entertaining.
Fun app to play! Just wish it had a few more controls.
Yeah we would have to say its one of the best game we have played the be say that it's is boring re dumb.
Great game!! Our nephew always plays it.
Awesome game it's one one of our best games we love the new airport builder the only problem is that when we go on airport builder when we press 3 it crashes please fix otherwise its a great game it's our best game we've got from quantum you've gotta get this game everyone.
This game is the best! You fly passenger air planes, cargo air planes, private airplanes, helicopters and more. Remember that is all in this app, so now you know to get this app right now we rate this app 87 stars.
It an awsome game when u get used to it.
Ever since the update its been great.
Just wish we could find the runway again after we take off.
Please update your app Backyard Pilot to iso 13.3 12/16/19.
This app is good but is so hard to land plane. They should make it so that all people can land easily. Other than that, it is great.
We like it but it is only crappy because of the glitches.
We like it and fun but when we get to airport, we crash…have to adjust bearings all the time.
Takes a little to figure the game play.
This is a great app and we like this game but an invisible glitch confuses you crash and explode in the grass. We also thing you should be able to see other planes that are on the radar and see them land, take off, taxi around the airport, and see them load and unload at the terminal. Besides this, we think this app is great and we will still play it. We hope our suggestion gets taken to consideration.
Game is good. We jut wish there were different views you can fly in. We also wish there was a line to bring the plane in like in the Quantum App called pilot.
We wish you didnt have to buy stuff.
The game is awesome and we have a very plane. But some stuff they need to fix is the trash can in airport builder and resetting the airport when you need to. And if they add a reset button to the airport builder you pay 100 coins but everything you put down is refunded. And they should add all the planes in backyard pilot 2 in to backyard pilot. And finally they should add to the game which air port you start from and which airport you land at. And last but not least they should add buildings to it like airport terminals and control towers parking garages and cars like tugs food carriers and the luggage car and the car that puts luggage into the plane and the jet way and the car that has stairs on it and all other airport vehicles. If they add all this stuff the game will be much better and we would give it 5 stars but for now 4 1/2 stars until they add this stuff.
Once you get good at the controls it's a lot of fun, they are a little hard at first but hang in there! Can't beat it for being free haha.
Once you get use to the controls you can actually land and have some fun.
Not a whole lot of detail went into this game, which is obvious (but hey, it's free, and one gets what they pay for), but the worst part is the freezing if you touch the ? Button, along with how it makes you crash for little to no reason at all.
We bought a plane pack now we regret it because there are better flight sims out there. Not saying this is bad. We just wanted tho see what the American airline plane looked like, that's the only reason why we bought the cargo plane pack. Can we get our money back? PLEASE.
The game it's self is fun it's pretty much a time blower but if you wanna get a helicopter or something save you money there is another game airplane game where you can pretty much get the same helicopter's for 99 cents.
When we start playing it works fine the when we get to the next airport it brings us to the home sceen.
It is a really nice game but some planes yu have to pay for instead unlocking.
Kind of hard to land the planes. Please add update to change views.
We bought the military pack and we had to delete the app and then we got it back and clicked restore and then it said there was nothing to restore.
The runway icon and landing strips do not move… …can't land Please fix.
The game could be a lot more realistic. We like the game but it gets boring after a while. You should add things like air traffic control and ground traffic control. Make the landscape more realistic because it gets lonely and there should be more than one plane at a time when you're playing. The airport builder needs burs fixed. Make the airports more active and make the airports have buildings.
It cost a lot to get new planes and the graphics are not good they just need a up date.
This game is fun…. When it works! It crashes every thirty seconds, especially on airport designer! PLEASE FIX THE CRASHING.
Really boring what's so fun about it.
This game is just soooooo boring!!!!!! It is so slow.
We found the premise interesting, but the game is clearly an attempt to part stupid people from their money for 'plane packs'. So you get to fly around, but do nothing. If watching paint dry is entertaining to you, get it.
This is an exact replica of one of their other games. This game is so unintuitive and very user UNfriendly. Made to be impossible to win in without in app purchases. Not worth your time, we just wasted a bunch of ours.
Heard a guy talk and they asked permission to use our iPad camera and microphone. Don't get it.
Controls are nothing but slow and unrealistic.
Radar doesn't change, so you fly around with nowhere to go with the sound of the plane which sounds like a lawnmower, thrilling.
You guys are a rip off every time we land the plane we miss and than crash make this game more easier to play.
It's nearly impossible to land and if u want better jets you have to pay $5.99.
Worked great for a couple of days now right at startup the plane just keeps crashing over and over. Game is stuck in a loop.
This game is so boring we will rate it 1.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0
- Size: 106.01 MB
- iOS: 4.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: [Quantum Design Group]()
Last updated: 27th February 2013 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: Quantum Design Group