Flight simulators have been a staple in the aviation community for decades. From inspiring young aviators to earn their wings to seasoned professionals honing their skills, a well-equipped flight sim ...

TakeFlight CEO Brandon Seltz takes the controls at a workstation equipped with software that guides users through the flight training process. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) RENTON, Wash. — The makers ...

A colossus of the gaming world is stirring from hibernation. Microsoft Flight Simulator, the beloved PC-based pastime of aspiring airliner captains and wannabe fighter pilots since 1982, has been in a ...

A flight simulation program developed by an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has won Marshall’s 2004 “Software of the Year Award.” This year’s winner is ...

A man who stole a plane from Sea-Tac airport used an airport tow tractor to turn the airplane around for takeoff, but when it came to flying the commercial aircraft Richard Russell may have been ...

Flight simulator software has been available for about as long as desktop PCs have been a thing, but modern incarnations such as 2020’s Microsoft Flight Simulator have really raised the bar — not only ...

I have a client who loves aircraft and his wife has asked me to sort out flight simulator software and peripherals for him for Christmas.<BR><BR>What is the best flight sim. software?<BR><BR>What ...

RENTON, Wash. — Thanks to Microsoft’s hyper-realistic new version of Flight Simulator, I now know what it’s like to fly a Cessna 72SP Skyhawk airplane over my neighborhood … then crash it into the ...

The new Microsoft Flight Simulator software is still currently under development and will be released on both the Xbox One and Windows 10 systems sometime during next year. Microsoft Flight Simulator ...

Hardware and software that models the behavior of airplanes and spacecraft. Flying a plane can be simulated in a regular computer with flight simulator software; however, pilots and astronauts learn ...