Microsoft Flight Simulator

I’ve been blogging for 25 years. Here’s the things I was blogging about on the first day of August in 1998-ish, 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2020. Enjoy!

My sister and her family recently moved from Texas back to Connecticut! Yay! So she’s living now on the coast, just 45 minutes away! More yay! We’re going down for a visit in a couple of weeks to see how she’s settling in! Maximum yay! Just one concern I have… which board game should I bring? First I had to find the place. So naturally, I hopped into Microsoft Flight Simulator to quickly fly from New Haven to where her house might be, on Long Island Sound. ...

I’ve looked and looked and can’t find out where Microsoft ever officially said that you would be able to find your house in its world-spanning flight simulator, but it sure as heck looks like every other review of the game mentions that. First, I have always loved flight simulators. I think I bought every edition of the original Flight Simulator; I even tried that F2P version where you flew a bushwhacker in Hawai’i, though I never felt connected enough to actually pay for better planes or other expansions. I don’t think many other people did, either. ...