Final Approach

You are an air traffic controller at an international airport, guiding planes in to landing safely.

Your first screen is the Approach Control Radar screen. You must guide the aircraft using the cursor until they are headed left to right along the yellow line towards the black stripe. Ensure other planes are not headed towards each other or off screen.

After a plane gets near the black stripe, move the cursor to the center red light and press the button. This will take you to the Ground Control Approach screen. Here, you must center the plane's nose on the glide slope and localizer before it arrives at the end of the runway. If the landing is successful, the plane will disappear from the radar screen and a new one will appear soon. If not, pressing your joystick button and returning to the radar screen will show the plane still present. If an emergency plane starts flashing on the radar and you hear an alarm sound, this plane has an emergency that must be landed first.

Scoring

Successful landing=25 points

Successful emergency landing if landing before other planes=50 points

Aircraft wanders off radar=lose 5 points

You get a control error (lose a life) if you allow a near miss or do not immediately land an aircraft in distress. You are allowed an additional control error (extra life) every 500 points.

Game variations

Games 1, 3, 5, and 7 are one player.

Games 2, 4, 6, and 8 are two player.

Maximum number of planes on radar:

Games 1, 2, 3, and 4=4

Games 5 and 6=3

Games 7 and 8=2

Difficulty switch

A=faster planes

B=slower planes