Microsoft Flight Simulator offers an unexpected learning lesson by demonstrating aerodynamic icing in flight as it affects the pitot-static system. [Credit: Shutterstock] The Microsoft Flight ...

Sumner County Schools' recently opened Carolyn Smith Innovation Center in Hendersonville features two full flight simulators, ...

Jerry Williams is confident that when he flips an aircraft in midair or disables the cockpit instruments, his students can recover without careening to the ground. Rather than attempt dangerous ...

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 ...

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business will help the U.S. Army update virtual flight simulators and train military aviators under a potential 12-year, $1.7 billion contract ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caleb West, 6, of Mitchellville recently got to take his classroom lessons to the skies as he piloted his aircraft through green square rings — a test not of his aerial acumen, but of his science and ...

We’d heard about the new Microsoft Flight Simulator’s mega-realistic scenery, digitally distilled from satellite imagery. We knew the sim could recreate real-time weather conditions on the go, relayed ...

A good flight simulator is way more than just a game. As flight sim technology has gotten more and more accurate, and realistic tools have become increasingly affordable, setting up a simulator at ...