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

A surprise birthday

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

Now these Easter eggs

they will not be playable where we want, that is, for example, in the main menu before entering to fly with the new Flight simulatorotherwise what they added them in a different waywhile you wait for example for the tower to give you clearance to take off, or just standing in the airport terminal while you do some time.

How do I access the old Flight Simulator?

The procedure to achieve these four Flight simulator originals from the years 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1989 is to access a game in which you must fly a Diamond DA62, a small model airplane classic and that many of you have surely piloted 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.

The first thing to do is, from the interior cockpit view, activate emergency call on pager that you will see on 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 this button, you will see on the left screen, the HUD, how it suddenly changes.

This activation of the emergency locator in this aircraft it will display old games with their original graphical appearance. Since flight simulator 1 which arrived with the colors of Hercules (i.e. in black and white) at the Flight simulator 2, 3 and 4

which 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.

Just below the game screen you will see more keys, which are needed to play a game. In those 80s, the number of airplane controls weren’t as large as in the 2020 version, and offering the typical access to the airplane controls (the sliders), remove brake, raise and lower the power of the motors and flaps, we already had enough to experience what, in the 1980s, were the most realistic flight experiences in the world.

So you know, new Flight simulator he has a little piece of his story now available to enjoy while we fly peacefully.