What makes you insist on playing Infinite Flight?

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I have been playing Infinite Flight since 2017. One day, I happened to find this game in the app store. At that time, Infinite Flight had not updated the image quality, and I had no extra pocket money to buy the Pro version.

At that time, my English was very poor, and I couldn’t understand many places. I pressed everywhere and groped for a long time before entering the flight. I liked to drive a C172 and flew around in the game. At that time, this game was great for me! I wanted to leave school early every day. As soon as I got out of school, I couldn’t wait to start Infinite Flight.

However, due to academic pressure, I had to give it up, because I didn’t have my own mobile phone at that time, and my parents were very strict in managing me. However, in my spare time, I also fantasize about my playing Infinite Flight from time to time. This feeling is really great for me!

At the beginning of 2020, I subscribed to the Pro version for the first time. I admit that I was shocked by everything in front of me, just like opening the door to a new world. All the unlocked aircraft and airports as well as the advanced A350 made me very excited. I began to learn how to complete a route flight, how to use ATC communication, and so on.

In 2021, I had my own IFC account. The players in the community are very friendly. Unbelievably, I can contact the staff directly to solve the problems I have encountered.

However, I also had the idea of giving up. The main reason is my studies, and the second reason is that I can’t find more people flying with me. Most of the time, I’m alone. But whenever I wanted to give up, I started to hesitate again. I have spent too much time on this game. It has a variety of gameplay and considerable quality. I can’t find a second mobile game like this. So I continued to play with this mentality again.

In 2022, by chance, I became a member of IFAET. I found a new way to play, which is definitely the best feature of Infinite Flight! This is also the main reason why I insist on not giving up. From then on, Infinite Flight took up almost all my entertainment time. Whenever I want to give up Infinite Flight because of the pressure of life, I will think about which airports I haven’t finished.

In 2025, I encountered a lot of bad things in my life. My good friend died of cancer, and I was also diagnosed with mild depression (although I don’t believe in this result). Whenever I’m depressed, I think of Infinite Flight, a game that has been with me for eight years, one of the longest hobbies in my life so far, and its community, especially the friends who accompany me to play this game.

In reality, I don’t have many friends. I like aviation and yearn for flying, but I often don’t fit in group because of this strange hobby that others see as an odd one. So Infinite Flight brought me a lot of joy. For me, this is a great game, and I may never give it up.

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Thanks for sharing your story! It is very nice to see that Infinite Flight brought you a lot of joy, even though you encountered some issues during your life. I must say, I’m probably not in the best phase of my life either. Life is not easy, but we will surely surpass the bad periods.

To answer the question on the title of this topic, that would be the community aspect of Infinite Flight for me. I started playing it as a kid in 2018/2019 because I’ve loved aviation since I was very young. However, I played randomly, just to have fun while flying around very badly haha.

I only learned about the IFC in 2022 when I was 14. I randomly found it while searching for the cruise speed of an IF plane on Google (something like “A320 cruise speed Infinite Flight”), and immediately fell in love with this community. Soon after, I joined IFATC, which was the best part of my Infinite Flight journey. I met a lot of people, way more than I thought I would, and was able to reach some great achievments, such as obtaining important roles.

To be completely honest, at this moment of writing this post, I find flying on ES a bit boring, but whenever I fly to help out with IFATC, or joining a Group Flight for a VA every now and then, it’s great fun. The ATC aspect is great as well.

To make it short: I love and will continue playing Infinite Flight thanks to its community, which always made me feel welcome, and is always friendly, and there to help you! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I’m going to keep my response short and sweet, this was a very moving story to read.

It’s great to hear that Infinite Flight has become the place you find comfort and I think I can speak for the entire community when I say we really appreciate the kind words.

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To answer your topic’s question, I insist on playing Infinite Flight because the community is so amazing. We have no doubt one of the best sim-game communities out there.

I’m here as well tbh. I think 25.1 will hopefully reinvigorate my passion for doing regular flights again.

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I was still a primary school student. I saw the video of IF on the social networking site, so I went to the APP store to search and found that it needed CNY30, so I went to my father, who agreed to buy the game. In the following years, I didn’t subscribe to Pro.

After I was in junior high school, I bought IFpro on the recommendation of @burgerAddict. It was really worth paying for it, but at that time, I didn’t have much pocket money, and I would only buy pro during the holidays. Later, in the third year of junior high school, my pocket money could support me to buy a full-year subscription, so I persisted until now. Every time I fly with someone I don’t know, I don’t know where the other person is on the earth, and we are connected through the sky, which is a new communication.

Later, I tried three times and finally became IFATC. There was a new server to control. Every time I controlled the airport and sent instructions from people from nowhere, I connected the world.

What I’m looking forward to now is how long IFAET will be open for recruitment again with each version update. I really want to sigh that I couldn’t read English at that time and didn’t know the time of IFC. I have grown up now, but I have lost something, but I have gained something.

I always with you @L_Sound

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Believe it or not, Infinite Flight is actually what got me into aviation on a professional level!

I think I started using IF around 2016, maybe earlier. I had this hacked version that unlocked all the aircraft and regions—it even had the moving water and that little terrain minimap. I got hooked pretty quickly and kept playing on and off for years.

Eventually, life took me in a different direction and I stopped playing, but by then, my love for aviation had already taken root. Fast forward to 2023, a friend brought it up again and told me how much it had changed—especially with the whole global flight system where you can fly anywhere and connect with friends. That really caught my attention, and after nearly 7 years, I finally subscribed and gave it a proper shot.

Later that same year, I started flight school and began working on my PPL. For me, IF became more than just a sim—it’s a community where we all share the same passion for aviation and make some awesome friends along the way!

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Always with you, too

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Thanks for sharing something so deep. It’s amazing to see how you can find strength in Infinite Flight. It’s important that a hobby pulls you out of reality, especially because at times, it can be so draining mentally. It’s nice to see that Infinite Flight is an effective escape for you.

I use Infinite Flight in a similar way, which is to escape the pressures of life so that I’m not overthinking stuff or over-stressing out about something. Right now what’s keeping me on Infinite Flight is my personal challenge to fly every active Emirates route, but I also want to be a good IFATC and control here and there. I think we can all agree that the stuff the staff is cooking up for future updates keeps us here too!

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I only got infinite flight because I fell in love with MSFS 2024 but I had a potato laptop.

I was in MSFS groups, admiring other players playing the game and seeing their screenshots, I kept fantasizing about the day I will get a better PC.
One day it struck me, wait a minute, is there any way I can experience this on mobile?
My mobile device has a very good graphical and processing performance.
I went online and searched “Mobile flight SIM”
Infinite flight was the first that came up, I downloaded (Jan 2025) and the rest was history.

I knew nothing about aviation and I never really thought it was something I’ll ever like. But playing this SIM has opened up a love for it. I see planes IRL now and I’m giddy, smiling, grinning, and my friends don’t understand.

I am a Medical Doctor and while I love my job, I am thinking “what if I found this SIM earlier” I tell you I’ll most likely be a pilot now.
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I keep playing because of the community and the immersion it gives me. I just made Grade 3 yesterday and my love for the SIM tripled.

I’m playing this till I’m 90!! (Deadpool and Wolverine Reference).

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Well written topic buddy! Glad to have you in Project China and it’s great pleasure to work together with you.

And want to give up IF more :skull:

For the topic question, I stayed with IF after opting out of almost every other choice.

I started my sim career in IF, back in 2019, when things were evolving quickly. Back then I only played once in a while, and every time I play there were new things that made me think “Is this the IF I know?” Like live instruments and bigger free regions (which makes LAX-SFO flight possible for free).

During these years I’ve tried PC sim, mainly X-Plane 11, and for a brief amount of time, I was very obsessed with that and almost abandoned IF. I even bought a full set of joystick and throttle quadrant for that. But then the passion burnt out quickly and it suddenly becomes a burden to keep up - New planes rolling out, new sceneries to be bought, and the fact that I had to pull out all of my gears, plug them on my PC, and doing all the cold-and-dark procedures for hours, just to bring the plane airborne, is too much of a hassle.

The turning point came in 2022, when I won the chance to join IFAET (via a game of finding Moritz models - the application hadn’t open yet). At that time, I happened to be making scenery of a bunch of airports in X-Plane with the default library and tools, so the experience helped me grow in the team so fast, from an apprentice to senior editor, and eventually reviewer. I really enjoyed editing, and I really get the sense of achievement when I finish a large airport, especially if it’s the first scenery of that airport in the entire flight sim community. Think about it - you make something for a mobile sim that even the most advanced PC sim doesn’t have, isn’t that amazing?

I also played other mobile sims like Aerofly, which most people believe is superior to IF, but after paying for their subscription and trying it myself, I found out it wasn’t that “perfect” after all. What annoyed me most is the scenery (the instinct of a reviewer lol): the quality is inconsistent across the globe; all the details go to those fancy terminals while other buildings are looking generic; and 2D detail is completely ignored in some airports, where you can only see centerlines and edge lines. And after I pointed out the flaws in their scenery, I received some really toxic replies and DMs. Some tried to ignore the flaws I mentioned and say “but IF doesn’t have xxx…”, others were just blatant assault, calling me out as some kind of “IF fanatic”, or claiming that IF is in no position to even compare with AF. It was at this point that I realized how our community is such a friendly place.

After using (almost) every mainstream FS, I choose to stay with IF, because although it’s not as fancy as some other ones, it’s the one achieving “conveniently realistic”, which is essential for a mobile sim. We have just the right amount of features for mobile players, who just want to have fun being a virtual pilot and fly together, without the need to dive into the complexity of aircraft systems. And we’re constantly evolving - with the graphic update around the corner, I’m sure it’ll continue to be my sim of choice.

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I’m quite new to Infinite Flight Pro, in fact I started playing 3 years ago but never subscribed until 2 weeks ago. And now I understand why it’s so popular : Multiplayer, Accessibility

I think the main reason why I enjoy my infinite flight experience so much is the multiplayer. The ATC is so much better than in the others mobile flight simulators, the community is huge (and much more professional than RFS for example), and the flying experience is just so intuitive.

In my opinion, it’s the simulator that offers the best balance between realism, accessibility and community on mobile.

All these reasons make me think that I will continue to pay for the pro subscription, and I now plan to use it as my main simulator.

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The easy UI and handling. It’s more deep on ATC and procedures which I also really like.

A perfect mix of realism and keeping it from too complicated let’s say.
Also the future autopilot+ and the simbrief integration they have added are some positives. Lot’s of quality of life updates lately!

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To be honest, InfiniteFlight has also played a huge part for me as it brings me joy to have the closest thing possible to my love and passion for Aviation. The slogan of InfiniteFlight really does apply to me and I know many others that play the role “Carry Your Passion”, and I must say it couldn’t be any better.

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