Free-flying around the globe, participating in landing challenges at some of the world's most famously difficult airports, or just sightseeing, Microsoft Flight Simulator is an unparalleled achievement. Using real-time Bing data to allow you to fly to and from any place on the entire planet has raised the bar for simulations to heights never seen before.Īccessible to anyone, or as realistic as you want, this is open-world at its most literal. Microsoft Flight Simulator is the closest thing we've had to a near-perfect recreation of the real world in the virtual space, and new updates keep inching it even closer.