'Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024' Preview: Advanced, Audacious Leap Forward

The new iteration of the flight simulator franchise set for release in November features improved aircraft flight models and new aviation careers.

Sean Siff

Monday, September 23, 2024 at 12:26 PM ET

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is set to release on November 19. [Courtesy: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024]

Key Takeaways:

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS2024) is a brand-new, highly advanced simulator launching November 19, built from the ground up for improved performance and user experience with cloud-streamed components.
It features a massive expansion in content, including numerous new general aviation, helicopter, airliner, and military aircraft, alongside deeply improved aircraft systems modeling (e.g., hydraulics, electrical, wear and tear).
The simulation environment sees significant upgrades, offering highly detailed ground modeling, dynamic weather, seasonal vegetation, new animal models, and 160 upgraded airports, 80,000 helipads, and 2,000 glider ports.
A comprehensive new career mode provides structured flight training and a wide variety of dynamic missions (e.g., crop dusting, search and rescue), alongside challenge and photography modes, designed to engage all skill levels.

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Four years after the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator in August 2020, developers are preparing the launch of the most advanced and audacious Microsoft simulator software product in the 40-plus-year-old franchise’s history.

In a media preview that took place in early September, journalists were given a few hours of early access to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS2024) to see just how much more is coming to flight sim pilots on November 19.