I don’t care how many hours you log in Microsoft Flight Simulator, you aren’t qualified to fly a real plane. When you fail at your computer screen, you just hit reset. Hundreds of people don’t die in ...

Ever since discovering the Microsoft Flight Simulator on floppy disk, way back in the early 1980s, I was hooked. The gray and white screens before me—accompanied by a “tick tick tick tick” sound of a ...

Avgeek desktop gamers and wannabe airline captains can finally get the high-altitude fix they’ve been craving. Following a prolonged period of hibernation, the rebooted Microsoft Flight Simulator, ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator may be one of the year's top-rated games, and a lot of people are thinking of getting into virtual piloting as a result. One of the first things many greenhorns will want to ...

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