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kpao

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About kpao

Chief Aviatrix and CEO at Flying Development Studio, working on Infinite Flight (infinite-flight.com), Investor, Taildragger Pilot. @lauraviatrix

Recent public activity

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    Comment #39026229

    > Even if you're side-loading, you're still using Apple IP. Many free apps on the store who can get away with charging outside do it. Uber, Banks, etc... Why can they use Apple's I…

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    Comment #16392568

    I'm wearing someone else's shoes every day so I can give you a quick feedback of my experience. I'm trans, blonde, pass relatively well and on the feminine side. I have seen a dras…

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    Comment #14144328

    Yes we did, we actually have plenty of airline pilots in the community who have given feedback we incorporated into the sim.

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    Comment #14143655

    If we get a strange claim like "The 737 at MLW should have a stable approach speed of 170kts, with 70% N1 and 5 degrees of pitch", then asking for a source of information seems pre…

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    Comment #14143156

    Right, but there's no excessive AOA here... except during recovery maybe but I doubt they let it go that high...

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    Comment #14142604

    What do you mean engine stall? As long are you have enough thrust, airspeed and no system preventing you to go above a certain pitch or AOA, then the plane should fly just fine...

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    Comment #14142283

    It's an everyday occurrence during the development of our app (Infinite Flight). We often get customers complaining about a misplaced sticker on a livery, a missing exit door in a …

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    Comment #12749188

    Tell that to a pilot who's had an autopilot failure where a servo went crazy all of a sudden. You better act quick, especially in low visibility situations, to turn it off, or pull…

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    Comment #12749177

    Pilot here as well, unfortunately, it's a fight that won't be easy to win. If in the mind of people, Autopilot means self driving. It's going to be hard to change the global percep…

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    Comment #12461886

    Have you updated that phone regularly? I have one for testing here, and it's become so slow, I don't even know how one could use it every day... Even if they bring back removable b…

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    Comment #12077144

    Same reaction here... they made me feel guilty about using adblock, I was nice enough to disable it, then that unrelated video kept on playing, and they popped up another message s…

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    Comment #11169658

    So happy for Miguel and Nat. We worked with Xamarin when we ported Infinite flight from Windows Phone to iOS and Android. We wouldn't be there if it wasn't for them. One thing I'm …

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    Comment #8104996

    This is mostly the feeling I get from reading those articles about lousy sale on iOS. It has become too easy to write those types of simple games, what are those guys expecting? It…

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    Comment #7987550

    Do you have more info about the airplane performance? I'm working on a flight simulator and this plane is one of the 747's we're going to add. I'd love to get more details about th…

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    Comment #7582378

    We were on Windows Phone but stopped maintaining the app a year ago because XNA was dropped by Microsoft.

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    Comment #7580573

    Thanks! It's written in C#, we use Xamarin to target both iOS and Android. We also have a PC version running on standard MS.NET I'm not familiar with Harmattan.

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    Comment #7580511

    http://i.imgur.com/IKshtxL.png Working on adding Multiplayer to Infinite Flight[0] (Flight Simulator for iOS/Android) This screenshot shows work in progress with an expanding group…

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    Comment #7212472

    We learned this last year when we started paying for ads on Facebook. Our app is in a niche market (Flight Simulator for mobile devices), I assumed that very little people would cl…

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    Comment #6618282

    Thanks! Yep we're just a team of two, for now at least. It's starting to be a bit too much and we need to bring in more people at some point.

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    Comment #6617874

    Infinite Flight: it's a flight simulator for mobile platforns I had been working on on the side for almost 7 years before finally deciding on joining forces with a friend to ship i…

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    Comment #6435758

    > My understanding (from a pilot friend of mine) that it is really about radio interference with the pilots' radios If it was the case, this would be a complaint we hear from pilot…

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    Comment #6073548

    We've got a rendering issue on iOS7, we knew about it from the numerous non-devs who demanded a fix immediately!

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    Comment #5665159

    Yeah, and Windows Mobile devices with touch screens had been around for quite a while before the iPhone came out... Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wizard

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    Comment #5618314

    I also doubt they would have long enough runways in Burbank to take off with that beast.

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    Comment #5384868

    Not really... I spoke with a driver down in LA once, he got on probation because 2 obnoxious passengers rated him 1 star. One of them was smoking in the vehicle, got told to stop, …