Though "simulator" is nowhere to be found in the name, Microsoft Flight -- due out this spring as a free-to-play PC game -- is still very much what it sounds like.
Accommodating new players seems to be a focal point, especially given the price structure, but those serious about getting an experience which mimics real-life aviation shouldn't turn away. Both audiences, according to Microsoft, are being targeted.
Flight takes place on the Big Island of Hawaii and is a full Games for Windows Live title, complete with Achievements. CES 2012 attendees can play it next week; everyone else, sign up for the beta here.
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2:00 PM on 01.04.2012 | 
I'm not sure I could ever play another sim game without that setup, but if its free, maybe I'll pull a Snoopy and throw on the red baron hat.
Guess Ill just keep playing FSX for another 6 years.
Granted they'd (the FBI CIA) would never say it publicly, it only makes sense that only so many people would want to buy and learn to fly a commercial passenger plane.
That doesn't even make sense. Not to mention after this announcement, nobody wanting to simulate a real flying experience would even bother with this game. Prepar3d by Lockheed is a far superior simulator in every way when it comes to true aviation simulation.
Flying props around a island is not the least bit interesting to me.
My dad before he passed away after hearing about me playing MFS went out about a pc and modded Air Force bases with planes and AI route and I was amazed. The local AF base he retired from was on his screen full of military planes coming and going. He was so tickled and this coming from a guy who never played games at all and over night he is gaming with a flight controller lol.
It makes perfect sense to me. no one who plays these simulators will want "this" simulator because either they have it or have a better one already like the one you mentioned. Either way I think the gov watches or tries to watch most things we do because they're just as paranoid. Just the other day I was reading that certain phrases tweeted can get you watched (think I read it on gawker?)
Rewind eleven years, MS Flight Simulator 2000, intro video: the flight instructor (a real guy, not CG) flyies his plane into the Empire State Building because "it would be fun".