Microsoft Flight Simulator’s latest world update expands the Nordics and Greenland
The Flight Simulator team has released World Update 15.
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What you need to know
The Microsoft Flight Simulator team hasannounced World Update XVis now live, bringing an array of upgrades and new interests to the game.Microsoft Flight Simulatorhas been on the receiving end of sweeping improvements by the MSFS Team, with World Update XV focusing on Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland.
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The latest visual updates to Flight Simulator come with Microsoft’s Partners atBing Maps, Vexcel, Maxar, Gaya Simulations, Orbx, and Kjetil Garpestad as the team brings broad, high-resolution geographic updates. The areas of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden benefit from significantly enhanced DEMs (digital elevation models), while all areas receive fresh aerial imagery and satellite data.
Players can also look forward to 90 hand-made points of interest scattered across the region, 10 TIN (triangulated irregular network) cities, and five hand-crafted airports. Among the new TIN options, players can expect to see five in Denmark, four in Sweden, and Oslo in Norway.
There’s more to sightseeing in Flight Simulator, though, and players can also partake in ten new activities. These include four discovery flights in Bergen, Norway; Gothenburg, Sweden; the Faroe Islands of Denmark; and Reykjavík, Iceland. Three landing challenges will take simmers to Akureyri Airport in northern Iceland, Ekeby Airport in Sweden, and Norway’s Mo i Rana Airport.
World Update XV’s new points of interest (POIs) include:
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s World Update XV: Nordics and Greenland is available now, for free, for all owners of Microsoft Flight Simulator onPC,Xbox, and thecloud. Check out our recommendations of thebest pre-built PCs for Microsoft Flight Simulatorto jump into the latest content.
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