On the world map screen, select Flight Conditions at the top right of the screen. Once you do, several settings that appear allow you to adjust parameters like weather, date, and time.

Changing weather in Flight Simulator can be done at pretty much any time - whether during flight, or when you set up your flight plan from the World Map. Here's how you can do it from either point ...

During a sneak preview, GeekWire's Alan Boyle uses Microsoft's new, hyper-realistic version of Flight Simulator to fly over his house — and does the same in a real plane as well.

To confidently fly to your house from an airport or nearby destination, you’ll need to make use of two maps: a map loaded on your web browser or a mobile device plus Microsoft Flight Simulator ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is renowned not only as a flight experience but also for creating one of the most realistic digital maps of the entire planet. The journey began decades ago, long before ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator doesn’t care. At a time when gorgeous “open world” games are the norm, ... It “teleports” you to a random point within the vast network of Google Maps images.

With real-time weather and satellite imagery, as well as a host of other technological improvements, Flight Simulator is as real as it can be without the smell of jet fuel.

Flight Simulator is dense, with hours of practice exercises and challenges.The main menu features Flight Training, Activities, News, Live Events and the World Map. Training is where I learned to ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is the most incredible experience I've ever had on a computer. The realism, the depth, the almost limitless replayability – it's like nothing I've ever played before.

London-based Flash developer and designer Mark Caswell-Daniels has created a simple flight simulator using images from Google Maps. It's called Goggles. You (the protagonist) are a dashing WWI-era ...

What a dramatic way for the Microsoft Flight Simulator series to reappear after years under Dovetail's DLC-focussed stewardship, and what a towering achievement from Asobo Studio.

Fly Like an Eagle. To create Flight Simulator’s high fidelity, Asobo scanned actual airframes, inside and out, relying on an Artec Leo 3D scanner, which provides half-a-millimeter resolution.