| On December 17, 1903 at
10:35 a.m., Orville and Wilbur Wright changed the world in just 12 seconds. Their historic
journey over the dunes outside Kitty Hawk, N.C. launched a century of aviation innovation.
Nearly 100 years later, Microsoft Flight Simulator joins leading aviation associations,
historians and enthusiasts in celebrating the world-altering invention of powered flight. |
Key New Features:
- Dynamic weather system based on realistic atmospheric
physics, with true three-dimensional clouds that form and dissipate, and automatic
real-world weather updates when you're connected to the Internet.
- Weather 'themes' that generate a wide variety of
stunning - and challenging - flying conditions with just a few clicks of a mouse
- Enhanced interactive air traffic control (ATC),
including traffic at all airports around the world (including non-towered airports),
altitude changes en route, pop-up IFR clearances, and precision and non-precision
approaches to multiple runways
- Interactive 3D 'virtual' cockpits-tune radios and
operate key aircraft controls and avionics by pointing and clicking in the virtual cockpit
view.
- Scenery improvements, including taxiway and runway
signs, enhanced auto-gen 3D objects, more high-detail airports, and improved lighting and
sky effects
- Garmin 500 and 295 series GPS with color moving maps
and airport/facility information
- Improved full-color map view with terrain display
- Improved support for 3D graphics hardware
acceleration in multiple windows and across multiple monitors
- Learning Center--a 'Web site on the disc' available
while the simulation is running that includes a Key Topics visual guide to the features in
Microsoft Flight Simulator, direct links to flights and lessons, flight briefings, how-to
procedures, aircraft handbooks, and more.
- New and expanded lessons and ground school topics
- Kiosk mode for unattended demonstrations
Core Features from Previous Versions:
- Worldwide scenery with accurate 3D terrain and
auto-gen objects that fill in the world with appropriate buildings and vegetation no
matter where you fly.
- Jeppesen NavData database, including VORs, NDBs, ILS,
low- and high-altitude airways, intersections
- Approximately 24,000 airports worldwide (increased
from about 22,000 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002).
- Flight planner to create realistic VFR and IFR flight
plans and navigation logs
- Flight analysis to play back a flight on a moving map
that shows ground track, key flight data, and a vertical profile
- Instructor's station--link two PCs so that one pilot
can observe a Flight Simulator session, change weather, fail systems, and provide comments
and help via a chat window.
- IFR training panels for selected aircraft that
include all key instruments, avionics, and controls in one window for realistic IFR
flights.
- Multiplayer capability over a local network or the
Internet.
Aircraft:
Modern Aircraft:
- Beechcraft Baron 58
- Beechcraft King Air 350
- Bell 206B JetRanger III
- Boeing 737-400
- Boeing 747-400
- Boeing 777-300
- Cessna Skyhawk SP Model 172
- Cessna Skylane Model 182S
- Cessna Caravan C208 Amphibian
- Cessna Grand Caravan C208B
- Extra 300S
- Bombardier Learjet 45
- Mooney M20M "Bravo"
- Schweizer SGS 2-32
Historical Aircraft:
- 1903 Wright Flyer
- Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny"
- Vickers F.B.27A Vimy
- Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis"
- Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor
- Model 5B Vega from Lockheed
- Douglas DC-3
- deHavilland DH-88 "Comet"
- Piper J-3C-65 "Cub"
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