Dev builds browser flight sim with Claude in 5 days: real terrain, live METAR weather, every real airport
eeenmachine · reddit · 2026-10-31
A Reddit developer used Claude to build Pocket Pilots, a browser flight game in plain TypeScript and WebGL2 with no game engine, shipped in 5 days.
Key features:
- Real planet: streamed terrain, land cover, water, snow, building heights and city lights from open satellite data, plus 25 downtowns built from real building footprints
- Real sky: sun, moon, planets and stars for your actual time and place; live METAR-driven weather with cloud layers, haze and storm cells
- Real flight physics: point-mass model with lift, drag, thrust and air density — planes crab into crosswinds and plan arrivals around terrain and wind
- Every real airport: tens of thousands with generated taxiways, aprons, terminals; 250+ landmarks, real marinas and highways
- Shared world: other pilots' planes, co-op companies, events and leaderboards
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