Microsoft Flight Simulator: Exciting Updates & More
Microsoft Flight Simulator has unveiled its most recent World Update, this time bestowing geographical refinements and meticulously crafted landmarks upon 13 countries and 28 non-sovereign territories within its digital portrayal of Oceania and Antarctica.
According to the announcement post by developer Asobo, World Update 13 brings enhancements to Microsoft Flight Sim’s Polynesia (encompassing Hawaii and Easter Island), Melanesia (including Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Indonesia’s West Papua, and the Solomon Islands), the Galapagos Islands, and crucial areas of Antarctica, such as the Antarctic Peninsula.
The update of today expands upon the previous renditions of each region with fresh aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and digital elevation modelling data. It incorporates an updated height field for Hawaii and a version of Honolulu city that showcases “dozens” of handcrafted buildings.
It also showcases 150 newly handcrafted points of interest scattered throughout World Update 13. Among them are four series of Moai monoliths on Easter Island, Indonesia’s Autograph Tower, Tahiti’s Point Venus Lighthouse, Hawaii’s Outrigger Kona Resort, Oahu’s Aloha Stadium, and a number of Antarctic research bases like McMurdo Station, Scott Base, and Davis Station. A comprehensive list of the new points of interest can be discovered on Asobo’s website.
Additionally, there are more than a dozen newly hand-made airports, including highlands dirt airstrips in Papua New Guinea, Easter Island’s Mataveri International Airport (SCIP), Bora Bora Airport (NTTB) and Moorea Airport (NTTM) in French Polynesia, Hawaii’s Kona International Airport (PHKO), and Nusatupe Airport (AGGN) on the Solomon Islands.
Elsewhere, World Update 13 incorporates five new discovery flights that traverse the likes of Tahiti, Central Java, and the West Maui Mountains, plus three new landing challenges, and three new bush trips across New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Aloha Hawaii.
Microsoft’s Flight Simulator’s complimentary World Update 13 is now accessible for download on Xbox and PC via the in-game marketplace, and it arrives concurrently with the first paid DLC aircraft in the sim’s new Expert Series, the ATR 42-600 and the ATR 72-600.
