'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), launching November 19, is a brand-new, ground-up rebuild featuring enhanced expandability, user-friendliness, and reduced loading times through cloud streaming.
The simulator offers significant advancements in realism, including improved aircraft flight models, detailed system modeling (e.g., hydraulics, engine wear), highly granular ground environments, dynamic weather, and an extensive array of new aircraft and upgraded airports.
A comprehensive new career mode provides an accessible pathway for new players with guided flight training, over 3 million dynamic missions (such as cargo delivery, search and rescue, or crop dusting), and competitive challenges for 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.