This is the last version of the famous 'Microsoft Flight Simulator', with added functionality, new weather dynamics and new simulated aircraft, complete with virtual cockpits and precise flight characteristics.

MSFS has been in production for nearly two decades and now it is a mature flight simulator able to reproduce the real flight of aircraft with extraordinat accuracy.

If you want to get as close as possible to the real thing, you should fly a real aircraft; but anything short than that MSFS will really show you as exactly as possible how does a real airplane flies.

While flying an aircraft may seem daunting, it is not; indeed, taking off and landing an aircraf by yourself takes practice, as does many maneuvres but simulators are indeed educational and training tools that can actually help you a lot to learn how to do things up there, even if you are taking flight lessons.

MSFS comes with tutorials, videos and manuals explaining the basics of flying aircraft; many of the default airplanes that come programmed with it (you can add more, and there are sites where you can download thousands of add-ons for free) behave exactly as their real counterparts.

So, if you are someone trying to get a grip on what means to fly an airplane, helicopter, etc. or a pilot in need to a training tool, this one may be for you.

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