Touchdown: the full sim now fits in your pocket

231200Z JUL 26

Touchdown: the full sim now fits in your pocket c4f60fd

Phone-sized cockpit with the touch flight deck: thumb stick, FIRE, AB, WPN, TGT, throttle and system buttons

Open hornetbay.com on a phone or tablet and the deck crew rolls out a touch cockpit: a left-thumb stick for pitch and roll (drag down = pull back, like the mouse stick), a big FIRE button under the right thumb that holds a gun burst or pickle one missile per tap, hold-to-burn AB, WPN and TGT for weapons and radar targets, THR +/− on the left edge, and GEAR / HOOK / BRK / VIEW / MAP / pause along the top — everything a carrier trap needs. The canvas-rendered intro states get their own tappable bars: SCRAMBLE on the briefing, airplane and day/night/weather picks on plane select, and the five free-flight start spots on the map. The title screen compacts itself on short landscape windows, every menu button gets a bigger tap target, the gallery rotates with a finger drag, audio unlocks on the first touch, and portrait pilots get a gentle rotate-to-landscape nag. Detection is automatic (coarse pointer); desktop pilots can preview the deck with ?touch=1.