The pre-eminent flight simulator franchise is returning with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and it’s not long now until the game will finally sneak into a 2024 launch window. With a history that spans over four decades, the Microsoft Flight Simulator games have evolved from wireframe graphics to impressively realistic environments generated from satellite data. The mainline releases in the series saw a long hiatus between the release of 2006’s Flight Simulator X and 2020’s Flight Simulator, punctuated only by the free-to-play spin-off Microsoft Flight.

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The pre-eminent flight simulator franchise is returning with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and it’s not long now until the game will finally sneak into a 2024 launch window. With a history that spans over four decades, the Microsoft Flight Simulator games have evolved from wireframe graphics to impressively realistic environments generated from satellite data. The mainline releases in the series saw a long hiatus between the release of 2006’s Flight Simulator X and 2020’s Flight Simulator, punctuated only by the free-to-play spin-off Microsoft Flight.