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A good flight simulator and a lot of fun to land planes and receive the grades on landing quality. Nonetheless the daily challenges are a complete hack job. It is clear that people use cheat tools to get perfect hit the point scores that are humanly impossible. Words of caution. There can be days where the sim servers toss you a ton of terrible flights that are near impossible to land. My advice, go play another game for a few hours and wait for different contracts to show up. I’ve even had it where it’ll go sour the entire day. Usually waiting a day or two will let the servers know you’re not happy and they’ll give a few easy flights in good conditions to get you back on the rails. All this said, this is a stellar creation that I hope the developers continue to expand. I’ve played Infinite Flight and frankly though this game is mostly scenario based currently with a few full length flights at the time, I enjoy it much more because of the flight grading and feedback at the end of each. I hope to see a full global mode and ability to plot your own flight plans in the future. It would also be nice to see an anti cheat system in the daily challenges. I’d happily pay to own this game. Amazing enough it’s totally free. In app purchases aren’t necessary and I never feel tempted to make one because of the continuous and smooth story progression.

I love this game so much everyday I play it nonstop and I would like to see twin things in the new update for the game one is that you get to do full flights more often most of the time it’s just simple takeoff or landing or full takeoff or landing but I want to do the full flight from pushback to taxi to takeoff to mid flight and cruise to approach and landing and taxi again and into the gate and second I want to be able to choose to do free flight you know like pick all the airports that I have unlocked and pick my aircrafts that I own and do a flight plan so let’s say from Chicago to New York I want to be able to do a free flight like that that’s what I would like to see but overall it’s an amazing game and I play it everyday because my dream is to become a pilot and I would recommend this game to everyone else so the makers and developers of this game you did an amazing job keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯

As real love of flight simulation this game was a true gem with level up progress fast at first but starts to get repetitive. It has three main modes of flight which are Landing, Takeoff and different challenges for planes in license challenges. The fourth mode which really shines is a Full Flight mode. The main part of the game I enjoy most is the Full Flight length when given the chance to do them when offered from other airline challenges. I have heard rumors that you get more once you have clocked 80 hours of flight time though I feel with an option to fly in freedom when I would like other than simple Landing and simple takeoff. I would give the game 5 stars though it needs more flexibility if the developer is reading to add more free flight options or more frequent Full Flight challenges which make the game really shine.

Overall this is very fun to play. The flight physics are decent, I like the premise of the game, the graphics aren’t bad, and the realism is adequate... not perfect but adequate. I keep coming back for more every day, but I would like to see a few future changes. The game is very very bossy. I hate that there is no sandbox/free flight mode, not even one you could buy - I would pay a reasonable sum of money ($20 or so) to have open unlimited access to just fly, and probably pay another $20 to unlock everything, all planes. I’ve done over 300 landings and every time I land it still says “use the brakes to reduce the speed on the runway.” GEE, YOU THINK? Take off the training wheels. I’ve also experienced more rudder failures than I think have taken place in the entire history of aviation... not just commercial aviation - ALL aviation. The failures add a fun element but at the same time there have been just incidents of all engines failing on a commercial aircraft in modern aviation (not including fuel starvation) - I swear I’ve had that many in just a day in this game. It doesn’t even make sense that you can’t view your achievements or achievement progress unless you have earned one. You can’t slide the level or progress bar around to see what airports are coming up.

The game is great. I’ve been playing it for some time now but I find it’s hard to level up which you need for licenses. Honestly, I think licenses shouldn’t rely on leveling up, then you need to do 5 missions to get enough money, and then you need to wait 30 minutes. They could rely on experience points or something where once you play enough you can unlock that license. I’m talking getting 1,000 to 5,000 XP per mission depending on how hard it is, and the license costs 5,000 to 25,000 depending on the plane. Another problem I’ve been noticing is that when I land and turn on the breaks, the gears disappear out of nowhere and i fail the whole mission. Finally, the taxiing. The taxiing is terrible. I know there’s a skip button but if you do skip you lose half your rewards which are needed for anything basically. If you fail the taxiing, you need to start all the way over from the beginning which gets so annoying. There should be a checkpoint when you get to the runway. Overall, this is a great game and I would recommend it. I would like to see a freestyle mode where you can do anything you want. (I do notice that there’s a coming soon area on the menu).

The wait times in between tasks is horrendously long. When that happens, I generally don’t go back to the game. Who is gonna wait 10+ hours for a simple task to complete so you can progress? Of course, this is where the $$ is made and believe me, I spend and support developers for games I really enjoy. That said, the term ‘money grubbing’ is applicable here because where I will drop $ without hesitation, when I feel cheated is when I turn that cash spigot off. Sadly, this is one of those times. Guys, you’ve made an excellent game but you don’t provide enough ‘value’. Shorten task times to minutes not hours. Collect your money for things like new planes, pilots, route contracts, etc. I’m disappointed that I finally found a game worth playing for hours on end but you set your own limitations when you try to monetize every minute aspect of the game. When I’m confident that changes have been made to provide more ‘value’ to the player, I’ll pick this up again. Until then.

Have some major issues with the game. The game will give me a heading and altitude to complete within a minute yet I’ll still fail when it comes to the heading. Tower will tell me maintain 6100 ft and heading of 153 yet the navigation tells me my heading is already on the correct heading. I would understand if tower told me to deviate from current heading but it doesn’t and you never deviate from your current route without tower telling you to do so. Also the game needs some work in the ground routing because it also will have you all over the place sometimes. Mainly I find these errors on offers from other airlines. Also give us a clue on what’s coming soon and also i can’t claim a reward for having 300 landings it says completed yet i can’t claim the reward and I need it. I have invested money into this game but won’t anymore until I get what I worked hard to achieve. Also need way more full flights in the game. I have only gotten 2 full flights one 5 hours long the other 3 and that’s it. I know maybe to most people they don’t want to sit and fly that long but that’s what a pilot does and it makes this game feel more like a simulator then anything else.

This game is all take offs and landings. If you like practicing that then this is the app for you. I’ve downloaded just about every flight sim app and this one, IMO, has way better physics of flight. My rank is Captain so I’ve really grinded for quite some time. LOTS OF down time between tasks. Then when you get new tasks it is almost guaranteed to be two landings and a takeoff. There is the EXTREMELY RARE full flight, but just be ready to dedicate about two hours to the game - like most games, there is no option to speed this one up. You can use autopilot to play a good portion of the full flight, but I recommend keeping an eye on it. I would gladly dedicate more time to this game if I could have more full flights. I’ve tried some of the other popular sims, Xplane, but just don’t have the patience to go beyond the first screens because of crappy physics. I don’t care what others say, but all other games have really crappy physics. I can also see why most people would delete this game after only being able to take off and land for a few days. MORE FULL FLIGHTS!

This is a very fun game, however there are a few problems that make it very frustrating to play in the long run. For starters the idea is you buy planes and acquire licenses in order to progress to higher ranks and levels. However you will never get the option to fly your own planes. You get to fly once when you open a new route and that’s it. You can only assign another pilot to fly for you. Than there’s the “contracts from other airlines” as you fly contracts they start out worth about 5k per takeoff or landing, then as you complete “perfect” performances they drop off over 90% to around $500. And finally there’s the “full flights”. Don’t expect to get them because they only appear once every 10 or so days of playing several contracts a day, which is really too bad because they are the most entertaining part of the game. They take several real hours to fly yet there’s no way to pause them long term if something comes up. If you close the app for more than 10 or so minutes it restarts and resets all the contracts.

This is a fun way to get into flight simulators and the challenges are enjoyable however there are far too many advertisements required and far too much downtime waiting to proceed. I suppose you can shell out a few bucks to bypass these advertisements and waiting requirements but they don’t even make that easy. It’s a really bad pricing model. And for that reason I have ditched the app but I must say I thoroughly enjoyed using it for as long as I could tolerate it. So I think they are onto something but they just are not doing it properly. Also some of the ratings did not present the proposed challenge. For example the wind rating I couldn’t tell there was any wind at all. Same for the turbulence rating and same for a few of the other ratings but the emergency procedures ratings were very good and challenging. I would love to give this app five stars as many others have done but I just can’t use it any longer because of all of the ads and downtime. After completing a new rating you’re supposed to have access to the contracts that are available for each aircraft but you only have access to one or two before it times out and tells you that you have to get another rating and wait another hour or so. Same for the partner flights, you have to wait on most of them or view ads. That’s a game I’m not interested in playing so I have said goodbye for now.

The game is ok. Physics are good. Can get a lot free by playing the game and flying routes. But... after the first 8 or 10 licenses you get it’s seems to pretty much be the same thing over and over. There isn’t much flying involved at all. It’s all taking off and landing. And when you have to do full take offs and landing you spend 3/4 of the time driving under 40 knots which is a snails pace (if you exceed 40 you get alarms until you slow down and it cost you points) and it takes soooo long. The it take 2 or 3 minutes to take off and fly. Or 2 or 3 minutes to land then slow drive forever back to park. It was pretty fun at first. The simulation is fairly real with the cockpit features. Autopilot and such.. I’m about done playing it though because there’s no free flight where you can take off and fly around and land somewhere else wherever you want. There isn’t even a full flight where you take off, fly to a destination and land there. It’s either take off and once you reach altitude the game ends. Or you start on final approach and land. And that’s it. I’m up to level 9, have 6 or 7 planes, and it’s the same things over and over. It has potential to be a great game! But not in its current state.

It makes me sad to write a negative review about this game. The game has so much potential. The graphics are amazing and flight is easy and simple to learn. That is, when you actually get to fly a mission. The game takes forever to advance, credits and cash are incredibly hard to come by if you are playing for free. Even after you’ve mustered enough cash to complete the next flight exam for your next license (which is required in order to progress the new flight paths) it takes 1-3 hours after you purchase the new licenses to even take your exam. Way to much time. Once you are able to fly your mission, your stuck with either a take-off or a landing. No flights from starting points to destinations. With the amount of time it take to even play the game, it’s not worth your time let alone money you may potentially spend. I would gladly spend cash on the game if I thought it had any chance of improvement. My advice as the consumer: either be an airline management game with no flight interaction or be a flight simulator. Not both. Hopefully the creators will take some of the advice that’s being offered to them by many of my fellow reviewers.

It is really fun and addictive, but needs works. I have noticed they fixed a few bugs from a while back, but there are still some things that need to be fixed. Besides that, the scoring, money, and that entire system is really poorly constructed. If my engine blows up mid flight, which is surprisingly common, and the plane moves a little I get dinged points for making passengers feel sick. Same thing for turning, but then when I turn slower I get dinged for not staying on course. It’s just kinda crazy. Not to mention, the level system and plane unlock system is so annoying. I get they wanna make money so they encourage people to speed up upgrades and all that to unlock things faster, but when do I have to level up over 100 times to reach a new rank, and why is each level another 10 flights. It’s kinda ridiculous. I get you need money and don’t want people to unlock everything in a week, but I’ve been playing for a few years and still am only half way through. I also just end up getting tired of the same old thing over and over because I can fly new planes.

The controls and physics and everything seem realistic but the game gets tiring very fast due to constantly have to just take off and land, take off and land again for just a little reward that’s not even 5% of the amount of the next plane you have to purchase. On top of that you only have a few flights to take until you have to wait another half hour before you get flights again. With only around 2k or less per flight, and trying to purchase a $300,000 plane or paying $100,000 to progress and take another test for a license takes forever. On top of that when you finally acquire the amount to take the flight test, after constantly taking off and landing just to get money, you still have to wait another 5 hours to wait to take the test! Also making a perfect landing is very hard so you don’t even get the full amount of money for that land. This game is alright for the first day. After that that is game is straight trash. Not something you could play for very long. Developers mess up on the progression on this game. Could’ve been great.