Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

The definitive flight sim, now with a career mode, aviation activities and a digital twin planet.

19 Nov 2024 · $69.99

About Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Edition Comparison About the Game Fly with Purpose Launch your aviation Career wherever you choose in the world. Gain experience, build your reputation, and complete certifications to gain access to authentic aviation activities ranging from Medevac, Remote Cargo Ops, Aerial Firefighting, Search & Rescue and more, all the way to becoming an Airline Passenger Transport Pilot. Set out on a truly global aviation adventure with virtually unlimited missions across the planet. Compete against other pilots in the all-new Challenge League mode or hone your skills in dozens of Activities ranging from exciting Rally Races and Precision Landings to Low-Altitude challenges and more. Fly head-to-head in the iconic Red Bull Air Races and the legendary Reno Air Races, including the new Roswell courses. Be a World Photographer and travel across our beautiful planet to capture awe-inspiring natural vistas, visit famous landmarks, and record these adventures with pictures in your travel book. Unique photo challenges test your creative eye along with your piloting skills while you strive to capture the perfect moment.

• Photorealistic digital twin Earth
• Career mode with missions
• Huge aircraft roster
• Live weather and air traffic
• VR and multiplayer support
• Steam Achievements
• Partial Controller Support
• HDR available
• Family Sharing

Gameplay

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 retains the globe-scale free flight, live weather, online traffic, and satellite-derived scenery systems of the 2020 game, while adding a more explicit activity structure around aviation jobs and skill progression. Its career mode allows players to begin at an airport of their choosing, gain experience and reputation, earn certifications, and unlock aviation specializations ranging from medevac and remote cargo operations to aerial firefighting, search and rescue, and airline passenger transport. Mission types include aerial firefighting, air search and rescue, helicopter cargo hook transport, air ambulance, cropdusting, mountain rescue, skydiving, commercial aviation, aerial crane construction, outsize cargo transport with the Airbus Beluga, arctic cargo transport with the Airbus A400M, VIP air charter and executive transport, air racing, weather reconnaissance, experimental aircraft testing, and nap-of-the-earth flight with the A-10 Warthog. New aircraft categories include gliders, airships, hot air balloons, and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The game also includes non-career activities such as landing challenges, rally races, low-altitude challenges, World Photographer objectives, and free flight. The virtual world was substantially revised from the 2020 game. Microsoft described the environmental detail as increasing by a factor of 4,000, with ground surfaces no longer represented only as a heightfield: stones, rocks, gravel, and grass are modeled in 3D and can affect wheels during takeoff, landing, and taxiing. New environmental features include wildfires, snow, tornadoes, auroras, animal migration and herds, live marine and flight tracking, four seasons, and improved ground traffic reporting. The simulator includes an EFB (electronic flight bag) for planning, charts, aircraft information, weight and balance, and flight-plan management. Microsoft and Asobo also described improvements to aircraft physics, avionics, and electrical, pneumatic, fuel, and hydraulic systems, along with greater multithreading support to improve performance. The redesigned preflight flow allows players to walk around aircraft and…