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This can be confusing and frustrating at first, but trust us and stick with it.

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You often get a checklist to complete each tutorial, but sometimes you’re not told how to check those off, just a vague instruction. If we’d had passengers, they’d have rioted by then. By neglecting to tell us what button starts the engine, we sat on a runway for about 30 minutes trying to get the damn plane moving. While the tutorials tell you what buttons to press, sometimes they don’t give you simple instructions. These tutorials aren’t perfect – they still assume a level of knowledge about flying that means if you don’t have it, you may just sit there staring blankly at your screen. There are a number of tutorials that you really should complete first.Īlthough the co-pilot can get a bit annoying (relentlessly chirpy, even when you’re careening into a canyon), it takes you through the basics. So, as a beginner, how is the experience? To be honest – it can be very baffling, with a lot of information (and jargon) thrown at you. (Image credit: Microsoft) Learning to fly We played it with the Xbox One controller on our PC, and while it wasn’t as realistic as using a flight yoke, throttle and pedals, it was playable, and for beginners it may even prove to be an easier way to get into the game, as you’re not having to learn new control methods as well. If you don’t want to (or can’t) invest a lot of money in peripherals, we’d still recommend getting at least a gamepad – keyboard and mouse controls just don’t cut it. Microsoft Flight Simulator does an excellent job of detecting the peripherals you plug in and configuring the controls to match – including images of the peripherals so you can see which button does what.īut, if you’re coming into Microsoft Flight Simulator with no existing peripherals, expect to pay a lot of money – and only do so if you know you’re going to be playing this game a lot. If you’re already a flight sim fan, then you’ll likely have the equipment already, and it should be compatible.

And while you don’t necessarily need them, we really recommend them (or something similar). But when they are in stock, they are a couple hundred pounds/dollars each. To review Microsoft Flight Simulator, we were sent the Logitech G Flight Simulator Yoke System with Throttle Quadrant and Thrustmaster TPR Pendular Rudder, both of which are hard to buy at the moment (the Microsoft Flight Simulator hype is real, kids).

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While Microsoft Flight Simulator can be played with a keyboard and mouse, or game pad, to get the full experience, we really recommend getting some extra peripherals – and that can quickly become expensive. If that $1 price seems too good to be true – then there is a catch. "It can get quite expensive falling down the Flight Simulator rabbit hole" If not, cancel your subscription and you’ve only spent $1. If it is, keep subscribed or buy the game as a standalone. That means you could try out Flight Simulator for just $1 – and a month of it will be more than enough time to know if it’s the game for you. There’s currently an offer where you can get your first month for $1 / £1 / AU$1 – after which it’s $4.99 / £3.99 / AU$4.95 a month.

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In fact, what makes the Standard edition a bit of a no brainer for anyone remotely interested in the game is that it is launching on Xbox Game Pass for PC – a subscription service from Microsoft that gives you access to over 100 PC games while you’re subscribed. That costs $119.99/£109.99/AU$139.95.Īs you can see, it can get quite expensive falling down the Flight Simulator rabbit hole, and we’d only recommend the Premium Deluxe edition to flight sim connoisseurs – there’s more than enough content in the Standard edition for beginners. This adds five more planes and five more airports.įinally, there’s the Premium Deluxe edition that adds 10 additional planes and 10 more airports – as well as all the extras that came with the Deluxe version. So, for $59.99/£59.99/AU$99.95 you get the Standard version, which comes with 20 planes and 30 hand-crafted airports (the rest are basic models).

First of all, there are three versions of the game that are available, and that can make picking the best one for you a bit tricky. If you’re considering buying Microsoft Flight Simulator then there are some important things you need to know.

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