Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator lets you fly aircraft ranging from light planes and gliders to wide-body jets and helicopters. The 40th Anniversary Edition includes 37 airplanes, gliders and helicopters, each with a unique flight model, along with handcrafted airports and content drawn from the history of aviation.

Aircraft and airports

The edition includes 25 handcrafted airports, 4 classic commercial airports, 14 heliports and 15 glider airports. Its added aircraft and activities include:

• 1 Airbus A310 airliner
• 2 helicopters and 2 gliders
• 7 famous historical aircraft, including the Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the Spruce Goose
• 24 classic missions from the franchise’s past

The world

The simulated Earth includes over 1.5 billion buildings and 2 trillion trees, as well as mountains, roads and rivers. Live traffic, real-time weather and animals make the world change over time.

Flying and conditions

You can develop your piloting skills in aircraft with detailed cockpits, realistic instrumentation and comprehensive flight models. An interactive checklist and highlighted instrument guidance let you adjust assistance from full manual to full assist.

Live weather can reproduce real-time wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain and other conditions. You can fly at any time of day or year, including at night under visual flight rules. The aerodynamic physics engine models over 1,000 control surfaces per plane.

Deluxe editions

The Deluxe Edition includes everything in the Standard Edition, plus five aircraft with unique flight models and five handcrafted international airports:

• Diamond Aircraft DA40-TDI
• Diamond Aircraft DV20
• Textron Aviation Beechcraft Baron G58
• Textron Aviation Cessna 152 Aerobat
• Textron Aviation Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Its additional airports are Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Cairo International Airport, Cape Town International Airport, O’Hare International Airport and Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport.

The Premium Deluxe Edition includes everything in the Deluxe Edition, plus five more aircraft and five additional handcrafted airports:

• Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
• Cirrus Aircraft SR22
• Pipistrel Virus SW 121
• Textron Aviation Cessna Citation Longitude
• Zlin Aviation Shock Ultra

Its additional airports are Denver International Airport, Dubai International Airport, Frankfurt Airport, Heathrow Airport and San Francisco International Airport.