Microsoft Flight Simulator lets you create detailed flight plans with a handy built-in tool. Here's all you need to know about how it works.

The bigger news is that Dovetail Games will use the Flight Simulator engine from Microsoft to create new flight sim games on its own.

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During a sneak preview, GeekWire's Alan Boyle uses Microsoft's new, hyper-realistic version of Flight Simulator to fly over his house — and does the same in a real plane as well.

Flight Simulator is also using real-world flight navigation data, which it will be updating in the game every 28 days. It's also using terrain and map data provided by Bing.