After a slightly turbulent start with a big day one update and a few teething issues, Microsoft Flight Simulator has officially landed for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and there's been massive excitement surrounding its release.
Naturally, many of us will have jumped into the tutorials before doing anything else yesterday, as there are a lot of controls and flight systems to learn, but we're assuming you might have had a chance to check out the World Map as well. And if you have, we're curious to know which regions of the world you've been flying in so far.
Perhaps you've been sticking to your own country and trying to find your house, or maybe you've been journeying halfway across the globe to take in some sights you'd never normally get to see. There's so much potential with Flight Sim (literally the entire world!), so everyone's answer will probably be a little bit different for this one.
Let us know where you've been flying in Microsoft Flight Simulator so far down in the comments below.
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Both my son and I started the download about 15/16 hours ago. I have reasonable internet speeds, but over 204g between us is certainly testing the internet! I just had a look at my progress and I've downloaded 101g, so I should take to the skies this afternoon. I'm really looking forward to it...
Tried flying in N.Y. straight off and wow, magical. Will do the tutorials now so I can understand what I'm doing 😁
So far:
▪︎ London
▪︎ Singapore
▪︎ Dubai
▪︎ Abu Dhabi
▪︎ Lahore
▪︎ Bora Bora
▪︎ Cairo
▪︎ Mount Everest
▪︎ Tokyo
Played for about 3.5 hours yesterday. Planning to play again later today, Will explore Santorini, Havana, Bondi Beach.
This game is so great, I found that you can spend hours and hours just exploring amazing locations.
Flew around where I live but it's pretty boring part of the world so flew over some holiday destinations. Then tried the north pole but it was incredibly boring unsurprisingly! Getting the kids back today so will let them have a go and see where they pick.
I flew around the area where I live and it looked like a really nice and green area, so I was disappointed in the accuracy as I live in Croydon.
Flew around the Wirral, where I live, had trouble finding my house but found the M56 and followed it to find my way. Found my house but was mostly excited to see the field where I walk the dog with an accurate playground. My boy started playing today and was incredibly excited, he flew an Airbus around San Francisco then flew into a storm in Kenya. He wanted to have a go at flying a seaplane and taking off from the water, but I think I'm going to have to dive into the tutorials as I'm having trouble landing it on water!
North Korea to South Korea then to my neighbours house where I crashed into it, hah! My wife showed me where went during her trip to Africa few years back, and then I tried to find area 51 but got lost. Going to check out Tokyo and Egypt soon.
This game is bloody insane! My wife just took off from Cardiff Airport. We found Llandough Hospital then using our knowledge just found Cardiff Castle and then our house. This is the best game ever made.
Not a lot due to the day 1 patch and the world updates.
But I did do the 4 travel tours of Everest, Cairo (Pyramids), Naples and Bora Bora.
Ridiculously impressive and I managed to land!
Looking forward to checking out London next!
I started with the discovery flight over Manhatten then took off from St. Angelo airport outside my hometown of Enniskillen and went to find my parents house. Can't wait to explore again. Did some of the basic training and have managed takeoff but no landings yet.
Took off from JFK and buzzed the stands at Citifield. Anyone else having great difficulty getting the training mission objectives to register? I've about given up on completing the training (which I was most looking forward to) because after following the trainer's directions the objectives just stop coming. Sometimes leaving cockpit view and rotating the camera around outside the plane gets things moving. Am I alone here?
My home, my home county, Cornwall a place i went to loads in my childhood and New York.
My home town of King's Lynn in Norfolk, UK. Found my house and discovered that the game has converted my stand-alone garage into a full 2 story detached house, thanks Bing.
Flew over London, did a flight from Norwich to Edinburgh, flew over part of Iceland, flew around Avignon and New York too.
Started off doing a fly through of Cornwall where I live, then did some stunt loops around the Golden Gate Bridge, then Dubai.
Planning a seaplane trip up the amazon from the coast tonight and starting the bush trials once ive completed all the tutorials...
Although having trouble finding the active pause on series x. Any help appreciated! Wonderful game!
On the XBox, nowhere yet. I got clobbered by a big day1 update then spent the rest of last night watching the free world updates download. Why doesn't this game manage addons like other Xbox games is beyond me!
If they get a system to make terrain ups and downs even better, this game could even more special. I loved flying around my hometown but it just felt flat when our main road has a pretty noticeable depthness to it!
I flew mostly over my country. Which sucks, because other than Rio, Brazil didn't get much love from Asobo Studios. Brasília is missing its iconic buildings, the Iguazu Falls became a flat river, cities with beautiful 16th century colonial architecture like Ouro Preto look like just boring regular cities... Even Macchu Picchu in the neighboring Peru is nowhere to be seen. At least they got my neighborhood mostly okay-ish.
Hopefully South America will get some attention in the World Update #154 in the year 2029...
I’ve flown over my area which is a newly built estate from just over 2 years ago, as I found it, it was still under early construction, the foundations of my house wasn't even started! I then went to my old address and my old house wasn’t there, it was a random area that doesn’t exist with buildings that aren’t even there. Also there’s too much use of trees in this game. I really hope the game gets updated from time to time with new satellite images for new areas.
I’ve noticed some glitches like flying over St James Park in Newcastle then suddenly I’m being catapulted into the air. Also some bridges near Tyne Bridge that are flat models are underwater. When flying close to the ground anywhere in the game the flat blurry models and textures are shockly bad but considering the scope and size of the game world, the entire Earth no less, I guess it’s expected and no surprise. I sound like I don’t like the game when I’m fact I absolutely love it.
Flew into area 51 Airport, which is called Homey, north of Las Vegas. Was super boring, just flat desert for ages and a few mountains. Nothing to see here... Literally. Thought Microsoft might at least stick a flying saucer out there as a joke. 😔
Finally got to have a fly about last night, I started off in the UK at sunset I gave my house a quick fly over and could even see my cars on the drive, paid the Barringer Crater in Arizona a visit, then off to Japan to take a look at Mt Fuji. Tonight I'm off to the Nazca Plains.
I know you can fly really low on this game, but it looks best when you're a bit higher up, say around 4000ft.
Flew over the village I live in and the local town. Then went over and under the Humber Bridge. Flew from Swansea along the coast of Pembroke and attempted a sea landing at my fav beach. Did the New York one briefly and last night I chased the sunset over the Atlantic in a Cessna. Good times and so relaxing.
@jiffymalaise Press the left thumb stick and then select the left most option. Looks like a play and pause button. Then Press left thumb stick again to retrun to game.
Whats also good is that if you liked a flight you made you can refly it by going to your profile and choose the relevant flight in the flight log. You can even change the type of aircraft but didnt try altering the conditions.
I'm on the tutorial where you are supposed to navigate to another airport without any input from the Instructor. I spent about 2 hours looking for the blasted airport last night then gave up! I just cannot see the compass clearly enough (or work out how I should be doing it!) and so if the rest of the game is finding your own way to locations, I'm clearly done for. Also, I found a flight that took just 10 minutes somewhat tedious, so I can only imagine the boredom involved in flying from Gatwick to Goa (which I have done in real life and takes around 11 hours). It doesn't bear thinking about...
Whereabouts in Cornwall, @jiffymalaise? I live just over the water in Plymouth. Before my retirement, I used to Police parts of Cornwall on occasion. The region has some of the most beautiful areas of the Country, and they do a cracking portion of fish and chips in Looe...
Hey! I'm based in camborne, so have been doing coastal flights along the south coast, past falmouth. Flew past Plymouth yesterday... They should definitely do a bush trial across cornwall! Thanks for the tips on active pause... I finally figured how how to key bind it to LB+RB and it makes life so much easier! Love this game!
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