When comparing Horizon Chase vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best local co-op PC games?” FlightGear is ranked 49th while Horizon Chase is ranked 81st. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great soundtrack
Music composed by Barry Leitch, who also composed the soundtrack for Lotus and Top Gear.
Pro Full gamepad support
The game plays great with gamepad. (With the exception of the optional Facebook login screen.)
Pro Fair/classic/traditional pricing
The first few tracks are for free (just like a demo). Then you have one IAP to unlock the full game. And you have optional expansion packs that can be purchased as well.
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con Single-player only
If you want split-screen multiplayer, you have to play it on consoles or on PC. The mobile version is single-player.
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.