Flying

Part 1: Building Your Best Flight Sim

Upgrading a home flight simulator beyond basic components significantly enhances immersion, learning, and the ability to practice real-world flying procedures and techniques. Key hardware upgrades ...
GameSpot

Microsoft Flight Sim Update Will Let You Land Anywhere, More Tutorials Coming To Xbox

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. As part of the Xbox Games Showcase Extended event on Thursday, ...
Flying

Survey: Home Flight Sim Helps Prepare Real-World Pilots

A study by the Flight Simulation Association (FSA) found that pilots who supplement their training with home flight simulation require significantly fewer flight hours to achieve certification (5.5 ...
TechCrunch

Honeycomb’s yoke and throttle let you take your flight sim experience to the next level

When Microsoft, after a decade-long hiatus, relaunched its now 40-year-old Flight Simulator series in 2020, it reignited interest in a genre that had long been a mainstay of PC gaming. It’s one thing ...
CNET

Microsoft Flight Simulator: 5 things I learned playing the new ultrarealistic flight sim

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...