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It’s a fairly well equipped UI.
All of the relative functions
are easily accessible within
seconds, such as the flaps,
spoilers, brakes and gear,
along with the autopilot as
well as the separate throttle
lever over to the left. The
HUD is just as you would
expect it to be - Airspeed and
Altitude MSL are both
indicated to the left and the
right respectively, which is
coincided with the HUD.
There is also a compass in the
bottom centre of the screen,
which indicates heading.
When an ILS approach is
being performed, it is
selected by pressing and
selecting a runway to the right
of the compass, when in the
air. As this is
activated, icons will become
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present to represent the
glidescope and localiser on the
altimeter and compass. Above
a scaled down terrain map,
you can also see your relative
Mach and Ground Speeds,
the latter of which is of course
very useful when taxiing, as
not to exceed taxi speed
limits. The velocity and
direction of the wind, if any, is
shown just to the right, which
makes those gusty
approaches just a little simpler
while being able to see the
changing winds.
One of the best features
however, is the customisable
instrument dock along the
bottom of the screen, where
you can select 7 different
pieces of information to be
shown at any one time, of
which there is a huge variety,
including current aircraft load,
as well as weather and flight
plan related stats. On the next
page over (via the right hand
side icon at the very bottom
of the page) you can utilise a
feature that simulates
pushback, which again just
adds a little bit of realism to
the start of your flight, along
with Seatbelt and Smoking
signs, which make that ever
classic “ding” noise that we’re
so used to.
The majority of the regions are of a decent,
moderate size and can provide you with
feasible flight plans of an hour plus, but some
smaller ones are better suited to some quickfire
island hopping such as the Caribbean region,
while others do indeed offer much longer
flights across hundreds of miles, such as Kuala
Lumpur and Singapore. Ultimately, if it’s
realism your after, despite this not providing
true long haul flights, there’s definitely a good
few real life routes that you can squeeze out of
IF. Although, if you read on there’s about to be
quite a change in this department, so continue
reading to find out.
flying to the East or West, which seems to
make up for it just a little. We also have to give
them some leeway here- It’s a small developer
team, and in comparison to other products out
there this is still a relatively young simulator,
so coupled with the obvious restrictions of a
less powerful mobile platform we can’t really
expect much. That however being said, these
things are on the to do list, and it certainly
looks like they have made astounding progress
recently in these areas, so I don’t see it as a long
term put off as it is definitely getting better, and
may possibly be set to in one of the next big
updates.
In terms of the regions themselves, Infinite
Flight doesn’t have the best scenery out there,
nor does it feature 3D Terminals/Buildings or
anything of the sort. However, aside from the
very rare and random hill or spike like
structure, it’s not unbearable, or even
paticuarly impractical for that
matter-especially given that when selected the
Sunrise and Sunset modes as well as the
lovely water rendering, makes for some
fantastic views, and a brilliant, almost
magical, orange glow in the cockpit when
And I have to give the “Infinite Flight Airport
Editing Team” (who I see work extremely hard)
some credit, as the vast majority of airports are
expertly layed out, and feature nicely textured,
well organised taxi lines, hold short lines,
runway markings, blast pads, as well as the
runways themselves of course,along with other
little bits and bobs, all of which are accurate to
their real world equivalents. As you can see,
taxiing around LAX at sunset is simply a
wonderful experience.
Jack Daniels
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DEVELOPER: Flying
Development Studio LLC
PRICE: $6.99
WEBSITE:
http://infinite-flight.com/
DESCRIPTION: iOS,
Android, and Windows
Phone application, that
brings users what claims to
be the most advanced flight
simulator on the mobile
market.
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