Having conquered the virtual skies, Microsoft Flight Sim has big ambitions for the future
Ever since it launched in the summer of 2020, Microsoft Flight Simulator has been making magic happen. Back in those strange, scary months of lockdown it allowed us to take to perfectly modelled recreations of the then eerily quiet skies, traversing a globe that had been locked off for so many of us, allowing us to visit old haunts or go chasing down storms on the other side of the world.
"We do quite a bit of what we call digital preservation," Jorg says ahead of the event."And I can tell you, it's one of the things that makes me the happiest working on Flight Sim. It all comes down to how much collaboration there is with the curators of the museum, or people who really know the physical object in the Evergreen's case.
"There's a lot of those planes now that we're flying all over the planet to capture the last remaining of their specific species. The thing that always warms my heart is when you walk in and you meet these people, their lifeblood is in these planes. They spent all their life preserving this one piece of engineering marvel that they've adopted and been endowed with.
The enthusiasm Tyson has for the project can't be faked, and gets to the essence of why Microsoft Flight Simulator has been such a success. It's a hobbyist's dream; its attention to detail and the sense of wide-eyed wonder instilled by its accurate atlas ensures that this is a simulation with a real live beating heart.
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