Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. VR Support. Languages :. English and 7 more. View Steam Achievements Includes 43 Steam Achievements. Publisher: Xbox Game Studios. Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. VR Supported. Add to Cart. View Community Hub. About This Game From light planes to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Create your flight plan to anywhere on the planet.
Microsoft Flight Simulator includes 20 highly detailed planes with unique flight models and 30 hand-crafted airports. The World is at your Fingertips. Earn Your Wings. This edition of MSFS also fills out the simulation to create an living breathing world, with AI aircraft, cars, ships, airport ground vehicles and even herds or flocks of animals to share your flights and find.
Again this is nothing new and 3rd party add-ons in previous versions could enhance your simming experience by adding real-world airliners and their schedules. You can thus hear other aircraft over the ATC being given instructions. Should you not wish 'live traffic' then the sim will generate AI flights based in real-world schedules. The AI routines powering this simulation seems to be intelligent enough that it also avoids things that break the immersion.
For example, while there are roads near Chernobyl, no cars can be seen in them — perhaps some inbuilt setting that allows the AI to recognise remote areas where it should not spawn traffic.
There is also multiplayer — which has expanded massively in the past 16 years. People now want to game, share, stream with their friends. It is no surprise that multiplayer is included allowing people to fly with their friends. Of course, you can turn it completely off to fly solo, or there is a third setting that locks any human players in the world to use the same real-world time and live weather settings. However, while players can fly formation, perform landing challenges and have virtual fly-ins together, one aspect of FSX is still missing is shared cockpits — allowing players to share the same aircraft.
Worldwide VFR terrain means that flying clubs all around the world could potentially use this for familiarity of local areas. Although Microsoft has sold the licence for professional commercial usage of its previous sim, FSX to Lockheed Martin to develop into P3D, it in not hard to foresee that real-world aviators and aerospace industry could take advantage of this sim - whether is using it to brush up knowledge of VFR landmarks at a local flying club, licensing the Azure Cloud AI and graphics for another simulator, or using the amazing graphics to market airline livery designs or new aircraft concepts or renders of airports.
However, as yet, MSFS, unlike X-Plane 11, does not count towards flight training hours, even if it were installed on a fixed-based simulator device.
Some people have already investigated whether MSFS can be used as an opensource software tool to geo-locate detention facilities, with mixed results. With a flight sim that allows global VFR flight, this may also could have some applications for example, for mission rehearsal for special forces and military aviators, who perhaps might want to familarise themselves with remote regions of the world or airstrips that are not included in their full-size simulator database.
The possibilities could be endless. MSFS is a breakthrough product that is set to expand the number of people interested in aviation. One of the most exciting aspects of this latest incarnation is that it is causing jaws to drop of gamers and consumers who would normally steer well clear of anything marked PC 'flight simulation' in online stores. Media coverage has hit the mainstream and the sim is also set to be released on the Xbox — potentially opening up thousands if not millions of young eyes to the beauty and magic of flight.
For an industry, that pre-Covid, has been struggling with a pilot shortage this is welcome shot in the arm that makes the flightdeck office look like an incredible place to work. It is also worth noting that as grim as the job cuts are at moment, that this situation could well return in the future, once demand for air travel returns.
Many pilots, furloughed or laid off and those older ones at the very end of their careers could never return to the airlines, creating a sudden shift in demographics and seniority. Fresh blood then could well be needed in a few years time. The sim not only has the potential to inspire pilots, but also engineers, designers, AI experts and those that find themselves captivated by this presentation of flight. Indeed the potential of flight simulation to reach those that previously might not consider the pleasure or freedom of flight is something that the Royal Aeronautical Society is highlighting through its 'Falcon Initiative 2' project where school children will design and build specially adapted flight simulators for the UK's disabled flying charity Aerobility.
MSFS has also been released at a very exciting time in that it is set to take advantage of the second generation of VR devices such as the HP Reverb G2 that are set to be released this autumn. These feature a higher resolution than the original Oculus devices and thus are even more suited to flight simulation where complex displays are present. In particular the clouds, terrain, airports and cockpits of MSFS in virtual reality will take this already stunning simulator to breathtaking levels.
However, judging by the response to MSFS already, this well could be the software product that sends VR sales through the roof as it is likely providing ones' PC is powerful enough to provide an unmatched sense of immersion.
Pyramids at dusk - MSFS reminds us what many of of us took for granted - the freedom to travel and explore our world. Congratulations to the ForzaHorizon 5 team for their launch! Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Pause Play. Click here to follow Microsoft Flight Simulator on Twitch.
Content is loading How does a flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator stack up against the real thing? From light planes to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Test your piloting skills against the challenges of night flying, real-time atmospheric simulation and live weather in a dynamic and living world. Create your flight plan to anywhere on the planet. User rating: 3. Microsoft Flight Simulator includes 20 highly detailed planes with unique flight models and 30 hand-crafted airports.
The Deluxe Edition includes everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports. The Premium Deluxe Edition includes everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator plus 10 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 10 additional handcrafted international airports. You must accept the Microsoft Services Agreement microsoft. Requires download s significant storage, broadband internet connection and ISP fees apply.
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