The ZX81 version received positive reviews.
Popular Computing Weekly said "No words can do justice to this most elegant of programs ... You will not see a better games program till Psion create one for the Spectrum". ZX Computing called the program "superb", stating that it made "very good use of the power and the graphics of the ZX81". The ZX Spectrum version also received good reviews at the time of its release in early 1983. Tony Bridge of
Popular Computing Weekly said the program "the best of its type" and that the Spectrum version was even more stunning than the original. Malcolm Jay of
ZX Computing said the program was superb but complained about the limited instructions, suggesting "would-be Spectrum pilots should obtain a book on flying from their local library". Eight years later
Your Sinclair magazine considered that it had not dated well. Both versions of
Flight Simulation became the best selling program for their respective machines with the ZX81 version reaching number 1 in February 1983 and the Spectrum version reaching the top of the Spectrum charts in May. Both versions were still in their machine's top ten chart over a year later. David Potter, Psion's managing director, stated the game had sold around 250,000 copies in an interview in the January 1984 issue of
Your Spectrum. ==References==