F18 Carrier Landing
F18 Carrier Landing is a flight simulator developed by RORTOS SRL that focuses on the challenge of landing military aircraft on aircraft carriers. The app features realistic 3D cockpits of famous military jets including the F/A-18 Super Hornet, F-14 Super Tomcat, and F-35B Lightning II. It includes worldwide navigation with over 500 accurate airports, 8,000 waypoints, dynamic weather and day-night cycles, training missions, landing competitions with global rankings, and a multi-camera replay system. The app targets aviation enthusiasts and casual gamers looking for a challenging flight simulation experience.
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1 suggestionF18 Carrier Landing is distributed as an Intel-only application on macOS, and we found no evidence that RORTOS SRL has released a native Apple Silicon build. The app continues to run under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs today, but Apple is removing Rosetta entirely in macOS 28 (September 2028), so this app will stop launching on that release unless a native version is made available beforehand. Since F18 Carrier Landing appears to be actively maintained (search results show recent versions), contact the developer directly through the app or via RORTOS SRL's support channels to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build is planned before the September 2028 deadline. If the developer confirms no native version is coming, you may want to explore alternative flight simulators with confirmed Apple Silicon support such as Microsoft Flight Simulator (native build available) or X-Plane 12 (native support confirmed), though those are more general aviation simulators than carrier-landing specialists. For now, the app still works, but clarifying the vendor's native-build roadmap will help you plan your long-term options.
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