Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 is now very good

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We were all very excited when the new version of Microsoft Flight Sim launched last month. We were a bit less excited when it failed to run on the day of release and even less excited when it still wasn’t working after a few days. But now it has settled down and turned into something really very good. The missions are great. We had a lot of fun trying to land on an oil rig and then taking pictures.

It runs well on the Xbox and really well on a proper PC. Well worth a look if you’ve flown before, and if you haven’t the new career mode, with chatty passengers and a chance to take flying lessons at an airport near your house, is rather splendid.