Would you feel the same way about a closed source local-first app that used sqlite as the underlying database?

That would let you access your data forever, albeit you might still need to write your own scripts to port it to another app.

They have decent search at least. Lots of filters you can customize. It feels a little janky to use though.

Yes. In fact I downloaded the pro version about two weeks ago, so it seems they only removed it relatively recently. I hope they add pro 2015.

Can you add an option to sort by companies that are offering internships as well?

I would love to see this as well. If I have some time this weekend, I'll look into submitting a PR :)

Done! Better late than never ;)

This is a lot of fun. I've always been a huge fan of flight sims, but I never realized that ATC was just as much fun. Just a few notes:

* All the planes enter at 90 degree angles. I assume this is intentional, but it would be nice to have semi-random entry angles.

* There are a fixed number of planes in the simulation. It would be more challenging and fun if more planes would arrive while I'm taking care of the others.

* The words are small and hard to read.

All in all I think this is a really cool simulation. I can see myself wasting many more hours on it. Thanks!

If this is something you find interesting and like flight sims, you should check out some of the live ATC groups.

http://www.bostonvirtualatc.com/ and others allow you to work as a controller for a virtual airspace populated by human "pilots."

It's funny you mention BVA. I joined them many years ago (before FSX closed gamespy) and I flew with them quite a bit. I think I was just a little intimidated by how professional they were. I did a few of their lessons, and then I went back to free flight in the offline sim where I could take off the from the taxi ways :).

I flew virtually with real life general aviation pilots, some of them assuming the role of the ATC in the sim; or else players would proceed like with uncontrolled airstrips in real life: announcing take-offs, landings, etc. on the "frequency" (a channel on a teamspeak server, one for each airport).

For someone like me who is has never flown a plane, it added kind of an RPG aspect to the simulation.

I used to work on quite a large Flight Sim website a few years back and a lot of our users would do this. It gets interesting when you have 20+ people in an area because people do not fly as perfectly as shown in any ATC simulator.

Another possible metric for rating apps could simply be how many users use an app on a consistent basis and how many hours they've logged in the app. If you get an app that has 5 negative reviews and 1 positive review, but you have over 100 people using it everyday for a few hours it should be rated highly regardless of the negative reviews.

I wrote some clever code that fixed a problem on Windows. When running on Mac the same code leaked memory and blocked the event loop. 1 star - "crashed my entire computer".