A while ago I made a jokey post about an iPhone version of Ship Simulator;
Ship Simulator i
The highly successful Ship Simulator series comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tilt, tap and drag your way to captain, with more than 5 ships and environments.
FEATURES:
5 Highly Detailed Ships, from a Water Taxi to a Containership
2 Fully 3-D environments, Phi Phi or Rotterdam North Sea
Multiplayer Mode allows you to crash your ship in front of the whole community (when it's online)
Missions make for exciting pick-up-and-play shipsimming
Free Roam: Just cruise wherever you like
Walkthrough mode. Explore the ships you sail.
Disclaimer: This App May cause your iPhone / iPod Touch to catch fire due to its immense complexity. Unless you have an iPhone 3G S
Price: €40
An iPhone ship simulator could actually be possible! On christmas day I downloaded X-Plane Carrier, and the aircraft carrier behaves
exactly like a Ship Sim AI vessel! In other words it's moving along, and, as a bonus, it reacts to waves of up to 6 feet! Could this ship be controled using the X-Plane controls? Quite possibly! It wouldn't be SS08, or even SS06, but it'll be
Ship Simulator iPhone Edition X-Boat!
Now to go and pester Laminar Research, the people who make X-Plane...