I’m hooked on FlightControl, the iPhone App that has held the No1 spot in the Appstore for some time now, but damn is it hard once you get to the 80′s!

I thought I was doing really well until I read that others are scoring 100+, damn how do they do that? My arm hurts like hell after a couple of sessions at 80+ and there are so many aircraft that I start panicking!

Based as all great games are on a very simple premise, landing planes, it employs a superbly simple and utterly addictive control system. On screen is one large runway, one small runway and a heilpad. As aircarft appear from the sides of the screen you drag your finger from the aircraft to the runway and they will follow that path and land. Simple eh?

Well yes, very simple for at first. Light aircraft land on the smaller runway, jets on the main runway and choppers land on the helipad. But as more and more aircraft enter the patter and Jumbo jets which fly faster than the smaller jets appear it gets very very hectic. You can put planes in holding patterns with a swirl of your finger and you can change their course at any time by retracing a new path.

Each aircraft’s arrival on screen is announced by the lashing red exclamation icon and aircraft in danger of colliding with each other flash red with an alarm. If you fail to keep them apart they crash and you’re out.

With each game your score will rise until you reach the late 60′s and then it will get ever harder. At least it does for most of us. I managed a score of 108 once but more normally am in the 80′s but one YouTUBE video shows a guy in the thousands with aircraft almost covering the screen, wow!

This really is the most addictive and frustrating game I have ever played, four weeks in and I’m still trying to beat my 108 high-score (92 in the screen shot as OS 3.0 reset Grrrr).  If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch and haven’t tried it then you don’t waste a second more, get it now, www.firemint.com.