▶ Gameplay reel — flying the GRAND STRAND 50 rings race through the real mountains of NE Oregon. Watch on YouTube
About
FAS Heli Sim is a phone-first, two-player helicopter simulator that flies over real-world maps — actual elevation and real OpenStreetMap roads & buildings. Tilt to steer, hop out on foot, fly co-op with a friend, or dogfight in battle mode.
It started life as a Unity project that ran on a real Xbox in Developer Mode, then got a full rewrite in Godot 4: same bird, way smaller (~30 MB), way smoother on phones — running all the way back to a Samsung A14. Play the free Myrtle Beach demo right in your browser down below, no install.
The Myrtle map now covers the whole Grand Strand — from the north beaches down past the SkyWheel, the piers, and Myrtle Beach Int'l, all the way south through Surfside, Garden City, Murrells Inlet and its jetties, Huntington Beach State Park, and Brookgreen Gardens. Real elevation, real roads with lane markings, real waterways, and hand-built landmarks you can pick out from the air. Four camera views (chase, cockpit, bird's-eye, and a CAD-style ISO), and a real ATC radio that tunes the airport's live feed.
Myrtle Beach, for real
The demo map is the actual coastline, built from real elevation + OpenStreetMap data, with the Grand Strand's landmarks hand-modeled so a local (or a pilot) recognizes them from the cockpit:
- 🛬 Myrtle Beach Int'l (KMYR) — full runway with markings, terminal, and control tower
- 🎡 The SkyWheel + the downtown oceanfront hotel wall
- 🎣 The piers — Springmaid, 2nd Ave, State Park, Surfside, Garden City
- 🛍️ Coastal Grand Mall
- 🌊 Murrells Inlet + the rock jetties, and Huntington Beach State Park
- 🗿 Brookgreen Gardens — formal parterres, reflecting pool, and sculpture analogs from the air
- 🏁 The GRAND STRAND 50 race now runs the entire coast as one lap, touring every one of them
Want your own town built to this level of detail? See Maps & DLC.
What's in each version
| Feature | Free Web Demo | Full Game |
|---|---|---|
| Regions | Myrtle Beach only | All 7 real maps |
| Free Flight | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Race (per region) | ✓ Myrtle | ✓ Every region |
| Mission (per region) | ✓ Myrtle | ✓ Every region |
| Gunship + OH-6 scout | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On-foot / skydive / parachute / rope | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 3-view camera + IHADSS HUD | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Kaiju boss | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Real ATC radio (LiveATC / your SDR) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Co-op (2 players) | ✗ No (browser) | ✓ Yes |
| Battle / PvP dogfight | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| Walkie voice chat | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| DLC map-pack import (code or file) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| Online leaderboard | posts score | ✓ Full |
DLC map packs — $5–$10 each (full game only): Mississippi Gulf Coast · Aspen CO · Las Vegas Strip · Washington DC (real monuments) · or your own town, baked to order. Every pack = real terrain + roads + buildings + water, playable in Free Flight / Race / Mission.
Screenshots — straight from the Godot build
Versions
The free web demo is one-click playable below. The full Windows / Linux / Android game is for sale on itch.io.
| Build | What you get | Status | How to get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Demo | Myrtle Beach + its race, in-browser | PLAYABLE NOW | ▶ Play below |
| Android (full) | All 7 regions, co-op, battle, walkie, DLC | ON ITCH.IO | Buy on itch.io |
| Windows (full) | All 7 regions, co-op, battle, walkie, DLC | ON ITCH.IO | Buy on itch.io |
| Linux (full) | All 7 regions, co-op, battle, walkie, DLC | ON ITCH.IO | Buy on itch.io |
| Unity / Xbox (legacy) | The original Xbox Dev-Mode build + old APK | ARCHIVED | Legacy page |
How to play
- Desktop browser — click PLAY (goes fullscreen). Fly with WASD, SPACE/SHIFT = up/down, T = turbo, J or left-click = shoot, C = camera view (chase / cockpit / bird's-eye / ISO), V = weather, G = hop out on foot.
- Android — tap PLAY (goes fullscreen). Tilt to steer (tap once to allow motion) or use the on-screen stick; UP / DN / FIRE / TURBO / VIEW / ATC chips on screen. TURBO sits just above WPN.
- iPhone — Safari can't fullscreen a web game, so: tap PLAY, then use Safari's Share → Add to Home Screen and launch from that icon for true fullscreen. Tilt to steer (tap Allow Motion) or use the stick.
- Real ATC — tap the ATC chip to tune the map's live air-traffic feed, or point it at your own SDR scanner.
The demo is Myrtle Beach + its race. The full 7-region game (co-op, battle, walkie) is on itch.io.
Play together over the internet
- Host phone: MENU → CO-OP / BATTLE → HOST ONLINE (lists you in the lobby).
- Other phone: JOIN ONLINE — it grabs the newest host and dials it.
Heads up: the host's network must allow inbound connections (same wifi always works; across the internet you may need to forward UDP 27600 on the host's router). The lobby only swaps addresses, never game traffic.
Same room, no internet? One phone turns on its hotspot and taps HOST (LAN); the other joins the hotspot wifi and taps USE HOTSPOT GATEWAY → JOIN (LAN).
📡 LIVE LOBBY STATUS — see who's hosting right nowMaps & DLC map packs
The free browser demo is Myrtle Beach. The full version ships all 7 real-world regions (Myrtle Beach · Dayton · NE Oregon · Cincinnati · Lexington · Red River Gorge · Florida Keys) — real elevation + real OpenStreetMap roads & buildings — and takes installable DLC map packs on top.
Available now — DLC map packs ($5–$10 each · full game only):
| Map pack | What you fly |
|---|---|
| 🏛️ Washington, DC | The National Mall with real monuments — the Washington Monument, Capitol, Lincoln Memorial and the reflecting pools, laid out true to the map. |
| 🎰 Las Vegas Strip | The Strip's casino skyline rising out of the Mojave — Las Vegas Blvd end to end, real buildings and road grid. |
| 🌊 Mississippi Gulf Coast | Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascagoula along Highway 90 — the beachfront, the casinos, and the open Gulf to fly out over. |
| 🏔️ Aspen, CO | Rocky Mountain high country — the ski-town valley boxed in by real peaks and terrain, a proper mountain-flying challenge. |
Every pack is a full region: real terrain + roads + buildings + water, playable in Free Flight, Race and Mission just like the built-ins.
How packs install — no reinstall, no store update:
- Buy a pack → you get a short map code by email.
- In game: SELECT REGION → ↓ GET MAP BY CODE, type the code, and it downloads + drops straight into your region list.
- Prefer a file? + IMPORT MAP PACK loads a
.zip/.pckfrom your device instead.
🗺️ Want YOUR town on the map? Custom maps of any location — your city, hometown, or a landmark — baked to order for $5–$10 each. Email therealrevjmoney@gmail.com with the spot and I'll build it into the game.
▶ Play the free demo in your browser
Free demo: fly the entire Myrtle Beach Grand Strand (Springmaid to Brookgreen) and race it, right here, no install. The full version (all 7 regions, every race & mission, co-op + battle + walkie) is on itch.io.