Is it free ?
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Android will have the same pricing model. I’ll post once it’s available.
It’s not it requires subscription he probably should have said that but he wants you to download to find out 
To be clear, the 7th post of this thread on the same day the thread was opened clearly outlined the pricing after the first person asked 
. But Android was a significant financial investment for me so yes, it will include the same pricing model as iOS.
All right
I was away from home for a week and only today I flew with IF obviously accompanied by IFATC COMPANION, and I must say that I was happy with the updates of the last week, where you added several things such as Handoff between sectors. new ideas come to mind.
We know that one of the biggest problems with Infinite Flight is that a real weather radar does not appear. What if instead weather radar, and TCAS you included it? Maybe adding a new screen that you could call “cockpit” so you can keep an eye on a weather radar and a TCAS. I propose the TCAS and the weather radar because this way we make any deviations more realistic.
And then another thing that I would add as I already suggested to you another time and the authorisation to descend as soon as you reach the TOD.
I current have a map in the app on the Weather tab which overlays weather on top of the flight path and aircraft location with the deviations. For the Continental US this is very accurate as NOAA weather data is open source. The problem globally is finding a free and open weather source to use commercially. For that all I found was the NASA satellite precipitation estimate and that is what is used for the overlay on the weather map for the rest of the globe.
side note, the next update will include the more detailed approach calls as you requested.
I just saw the update I’m running to try it!! Thank you so much !!
I really liked the management of the approach with the new update, at the moment I don’t feel like suggesting improvements. I also liked the news of the addition of the ATIS. Here maybe it would be nice if the app by connecting to simbrief could assign you an ATIS automatically, especially with regard to the initial climb, so that it is not always standard. But congratulations on the new update.
However, I would like to suggest you again: 1) during the initial climb to take-off and during the approach maybe also include the possibility of assigning speed limits, especially in the vicinity of an airport during the approach. Then it could be an idea to have a sort of TCAS or connecting to our flight on infinite Flight if it happens that someone is very close to us a sort of TCAS that immediately informs us to deviate, go up or descend in altitude. 2) the possibility of communicating that there is turbulence in fact in this morning’s flight downhill over Madrid transverse winds at 100km/h that caused turbulence on my flight but I did not have the opportunity to communicate the presence of these turbulences.
Another suggestion but this one is perhaps less important. The possibility of adding emergency calls or at least the possibility of communicating an emergency at any time you want to simulate an emergency in flight and then maybe IFATC companion could manage you on the way back or in an immediate airport. But maybe this is harder to create.
I am definitely considering some of those features in the future. Anything involving other aircraft would require the IF live API instead of the local connect API so that would be significant adding another API endpoint for data on other aircraft. Eventually I’ll add that and with data on other aircraft, potential features like smarter taxi instructions (hold short if another aircraft is in front of you), traffic alerts, approach and landing (number 2 for landing behind the 737), etc based on the location data of other aircraft. We’ll call that a v2 at some point in the future.
For those waiting for Android, the app is submitted and awaiting the long initial review from Google for approval (I’ve heard at least 7 days if they don’t reject).
Thank you for the effort you are putting into improving this app. However, I made another flight today and in the approach phase it was less specific in the authorisations than before.
I also noticed that on the App Store in the description of the update it is written
“New approach flow with altitude speed And heading” Unfortunately in my two flights today I didn’t notice any news about the speed.
Was it a close left or right traffic downwind? Found a couple of bugs where it mistakenly thought it was close to the runway threshold. Also when it didn’t download the airport surface from OSM and didn’t know where the runway was. Next update has some fixes.
Exactly I found myself on the left downwind at that moment. While today in my Approach in Madrid it gave me altitude, heading nice and precise obviously in the final part of the flight but it goes like this, while in my approach in Naples not. Obviously, as already mentioned before, no speed correction on both flights.
When will be android version ready?
As soon as Google approves the initial release. It is already submitted.
this looks pretty neat, and keen to give it a go when it’s on Android:
- are there some YouTube video you can do so we can check the product out and get a sense of how it works?
- I don’t have a second phone. can this run on a pc, for example?
thanks and well done!
Only iOS and Android (when it’s released) but if you have a Mac you can run the iOS app there.
New reflections after careful use of the application these days.
- unfortunately the speeds in the approach phase are not always indicated.
- the stands or gates assigned to the landing do not correspond in terms of number to the real ones, then when you leave and enter a new flight session once the app coordinates with IF the number of the stand or gate corresponds to the real one so maybe this part should be reviewed and updated.
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- the taxi instructions are sometimes inaccurate today for example it wanted me to take off from a small portion of the runway, when in reality I just had to cross the runway, then of course I recalculated and so it was updated correctly, so maybe here too it should be reviewed for a moment.
- if it was possible to make sure that the clereance and therefore precisely I refer to “initial climb” is not standard but that varies according to the flight plan, and the airport procedures (maybe an integration with navigraph) would be perfect) you can make further realism. I always go to set it in the settings but I would like to avoid it.
Finally, I emphasise that the app is one of the best third-party apps that exist for our flights on IF. And so I thank you for the time you dedicate to improve this app and to make our flights more real. Thanks!
The Android version is now live!
contrats, looks like à nice app:
- thé push tô talk button doesn’t work for me
- is it possible to use it on the same device, or on a computer? unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be the case, so it won’t be for me.
- you should consider providing some guidance on the app, e.g how to create a flight, setting options, diagnostic etc.
thanks