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How to fly inside the new Flight Simulator with the old 80s games

A surprise birthday

Thus, Microsoft did not want to miss the opportunity to celebrate that birthday by remembering your old classics, those titles that laid the foundations of what is the best flight simulator of all time, and that you can enjoy within the current launch of PC and Xbox Series X | S. What do not you believe it? Well yes, you will be able to enjoy flying with the first four flight simulator that arrived in the 80s, between that year 1982 and 1989, and that are already present after the last update.

Now these Easter eggs they will not be playable where we want, that is, for example, within the main menu before entering to fly with the new flight simulatorbut they added them in a different waywhile you wait for example for the tower to give you permission to take off, or simply standing in the airport terminal while you do some time.

How to access the old Flight Simulator?

The procedure to reach those four flight simulator originals of the years 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1989 is to access a game in which you must fly with a Diamond DA62, a small plane model classic and that surely many of you have driven in one of the versions of the game. It is thanks to her that it will be possible to remember the old days. How? Well look.

Flight Simulator.

The first thing you should do is, from the interior view of the cockpit, activate the emergency pager call that you will see to the right of the control panel, just below the radar screen and that it is possible to identify in the capture that you have just above. When you click on that button, you will see on the screen on the left, the HUD, how it suddenly changes.

That emergency locator activation on this plane it will display the old games with their original graphic aspect. From the flight simulator 1 who arrived with Hercules colors (that is, black and white) to the Flight Simulator 2, 3 and 4 that will be selectable by clicking on the buttons that appear on the game screen. Look, you can even see the old Microsoft logo, in blue, on the left, a retro wink for the most nostalgic.

Flight Simulator.

Just below the game screen you will see more keys, which are necessary to play a game. In those 80s the number of aircraft controls was not as large as in the 2020 version, and with offering the typical access to the aircraft control (the cursors), remove the brake, increase and decrease the power of the engines and flaps, we already had enough to experience what in the 1980s were the most realistic flight experiences in the world.

so you know, the new flight simulator it has a little piece of its history now available to enjoy while we fly peacefully.

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