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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
The successor to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) that adds a career mode of certified aviation jobs, walk-around preflight, revised aircraft systems, and modeled ground surfaces to the streamed whole-Earth flight sim.
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Career ladder
Starting from an airport the player chooses, experience earns certifications and specializations that unlock job types.
Contracts and orders
Career jobs include aerial firefighting, search and rescue, crop dusting, helicopter cargo hook, Beluga outsize cargo, A400M arctic cargo, and airline passenger flights.
Flight aerodynamics
Aircraft physics were revised, and ground contact models 3D stones, gravel, and grass that affect wheels during takeoff, landing, and taxi.
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Day-night cycle
Direct avatar control
The pilot walks around the aircraft on foot during preflight.
Embodied skill control
Modding API
Pause and speed control
Procedural checklists
A walk-around preflight handles covers, doors, and service items, and revised electrical, fuel, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems gate start-up.
Real-world data feeds
The streamed whole-Earth world of the 2020 game continues, and the launch showed the dependence when an overwhelmed database cache caused long loads and missing content.
Reputation
Career reputation accumulates alongside experience.
Weather
core loop
choose a career job -> walk around the aircraft for preflight -> start systems -> fly the mission profile (firefighting, rescue, cargo hook, airline) -> earn experience, reputation, and certifications -> unlock specializations
design notes
Career mode turns the 2020 sandbox into a progression game: aerial firefighting, search and rescue, crop dusting, helicopter cargo hook, outsize cargo in the Airbus Beluga, arctic cargo in the A400M, and airline flights are gated by certifications and specializations earned through experience and reputation. Aircraft physics and systems (electrical, fuel, pneumatic, hydraulic) were revised, and stones, gravel, and grass are modeled in 3D and affect wheels. The launch showed the cost of a streamed world: an overwhelmed database cache caused long loads and missing content.
ML reconstruction of the planet from aerial imagery