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New Flight Simulator on the block…inside Google Earth?

Yep, late last week the boffins at Google updated Google Earth. The flag­ship fea­ture was the addi­tion of Google Sky, an astro­nomy map­ping feature. Also included was a little-known Flight Sim­u­lat­or. Very cool! While not tech­nic­ally on par with Flight Sim­u­lat­or X as far as actu­al sim­u­la­tion, the coolest fea­ture is the use of Google’s satel­lite…


Yep, late last week the boffins at Google updated Google Earth. The flag­ship fea­ture was the addi­tion of Google Sky, an astro­nomy map­ping feature.

Also included was a little-known Flight Sim­u­lat­or. Very cool!

While not tech­nic­ally on par with Flight Sim­u­lat­or X as far as actu­al sim­u­la­tion, the coolest fea­ture is the use of Google’s satel­lite imagery. You have to pay extra to pur­chase third-party add-ons to get sim­il­ar ter­rain map­ping in Flight Sim­u­lat­or… Google’s includ­ing it for free. Or is it the oth­er way ’round…in Google Earth, the flight sim­u­lat­or is free.

Regard­less, an enter­tain­ing update; be sure to check it out.

And here’s some guides (via Life­Hack­er):


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