Microsoft Flight Simulator game gets a French update, set to take off among ‘grounded’ pilots

Bordeaux: Many aircraft are still grounded due to the coronavirus pandemic. But would-be and real pilots will soon be able to travel anywhere in the world—virtually—thanks to the first update in years of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator game.

With access to Microsoft’s Bing satellite mapping and cloud-powered processing, French developers Asobo Studio have sought to render the piloting experience as lifelike as possible.

Two co-founders of Asobo have even been taking flying lessons for the past four years after the studio was tasked by Microsoft with giving the venerable game—which dates to the earliest days of gaming in 1982—its first update since 2006.