Microsoft Flight Simulator 40 Years Update adds historic aircraft

An update is coming to celebrate Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 40th anniversary. The update will add a aircraft series and improvementsand it was announced yesterday that it will arrive November 11th on all platforms.

The forty-year update will also be free for Xbox Game Pass owners, who already have the game included in their catalog. Below is the announcement trailer.

All the news of the new Microsoft Flight Simulator update

According to reports from the developers in the trailer, the game will see the introduction of 12 new aircraft (of which 6 historical), 12 heliports, 12 glider airports, 6 classic commercial airports e 20 new historical missions in franchising. The six historic aircraft include the 903 Wright Flyeril Curtiss JN-4 Jenny of 1915, the beautiful Grumman G-21 A Goose and the famous Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as Spruce Goose. Also planned is the Airbus A-310, the iconic airliner.

The anniversary update comes after the release, last May, of theTop Gun: Maverick expansionwhich introduced a series of jet planes that we admired in the film of the same name with Tom Cruise.

Elsewhere, in our Microsoft Flight Simulator review on Xbox Series S, we read:

“The console optimization made by Microsoft and Asobo Studios is practically perfect both from the technical side and from that of the user experience. The defects in frame rates and loading times do not undermine the gaming experience at all, enriched by the wonders of the landscape and the precision of the flight experience ”.