How do you turn a good flight simulator into a good flight-simulation game? This is the crux of understanding what’s new, interesting, and ultimately unwieldy about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the first entry in the decades-old series to actively court casual flyers and Xbox Game Pass-ersby.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 still has some noteworthy problems on the Xbox Series X/S weeks after its release.

It should be pointed out that plenty of Xbox players are enjoying their time with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 despite the bugs, but clearly there's still work to be done to bring the console version (and PC for that matter) up to scratch.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is the best title in the franchise and provides a non-intimidating onboard ramp to the simulator franchise, but game crashes and performance issues can be frustrating.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 builds on the engrossing flight model of its 2020 predecessor and finds substantial new ways to turn the impressive 1:1 Earth replica into a structured experience. But even after its disastrous launch,

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a visually astonishing simulation that weathers its jank with a relentless series of postcard views and a slow-going story.

Microsoft's Flight Simulator series is notoriously GPU-hungry, so naturally, I had to test Flight Simulator 2024 out on multiple laptop configurations.

We'll throw the patch notes for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 update 1.1.10.0 below, although again, keep in mind there's seemingly not much here that addresses the larger issues with loading, pop-in textures and other bigger bugs. It might be a bit longer yet until Flight Sim 2024 truly reaches its potential - we're sure it can get there though!

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has a workaround to shorten long-haul and boring flights: Speeding up time using the Simulation Rate feature.