New Day & Night Engine - experience flight at any time of day or year allowing for night VFR, visual flight rules, navigation.

Live Weather – The new weather engine enables users to switch on the live weather mode to experience real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain and more.

New Checklist System - From pro to beginner, scale your level from full manual to full assist with interactive and highlighted instrument guidance and checklist.

Every aircraft includes highly detailed and accurate cockpits with realistic instrumentation. Aircraft – Hone your pilot skills in a variety of aircraft from light planes to commercial jets with comprehensive flight models.Living World – Earth is vibrant and ever-changing and so is the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator which includes live traffic, real-time weather and animals.Vivid and Detailed Landscapes – Immerse yourself in the vast and beautiful world that is our planet with over 37 thousand airports, 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, mountains, roads, rivers and more.Soar high with 6 new Discovery Flights (Helsinki, Freiburg im Breisgau, Mecca, Monument Valley, Singapore, and Mount Cook) and 14 new tutorials.Experience 8 handcrafted airports in Germany, Switzerland and the US, an updated weather system, early access to DX12 and a dev mode replay system.Enjoy 5 new aircraft – the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, the VoloCity, the Pilatus PC-6 Porter, CubCrafters NX-Cub, Aviat Pitts Special S1S.

Best of all, the Microsoft Flight Simulator Game of the Year Edition will be available as a free update for existing players on PC. The Microsoft Flight Simulator Game of the Year (GOTY) Edition celebrates all the positive feedback, reviews and awards garnered, but it is also a “Thank You” to our fans – new and old – that have made Microsoft Flight Simulator such a phenomenon.

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