Microsoft Flight Simulator will use real flight information to populate the air traffic

[Andrew]

This is confirmed by Sebastian Wloch, director of Asobo, in the latest video in the series of new features. The flight information will simulate "most, if not all" of the planes that fly over the world at any time, and when the game is offline, an AI will take over piloting them. Meanwhile, if players activate Live Players mode, the weather will also be simulated based on real-world information. For example, if you fly over Paris in the middle of a storm, that's because there is indeed a storm in Paris.

 

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Hang on...so the game will simulate real current flights and flight paths ? Sounds like its what it is eluding to.

 

That cant be the case though, surely a security issue lol

[Andrew]

Hang on...so the game will simulate real current flights and flight paths ? Sounds like its what it is eluding to.

 

That cant be the case though, surely a security issue lol

 

It seems that's what they're going to do.

 

It's not ? Real time flights and flight paths have been public for a long time now. I believe flightradar24 is the most popular one. If you have a flight number, you can just put it in google and it will come up if it has a flight plan. For example, right now BA226. Currently 2 hours into a flight from JFK for Heathrow, it's a British Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner with 2x Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines registered as G-ZBJI in late 2017 flying at 495 knots at 41,000 ft heading 052. Information on commercial aircraft is very, very public.

[ENTERPRISE]

I didn't think about that. After you mentioned you can look it up, it clicked that you could haha. Considering people have their own personal aircraft, makes sense you can look it up so you can plan your flight to avoid disaster. Derp moment!