Oct. 11, 2007

Flight Simulator on Google Earth

If I had to list things I would never have expected to see on Google Earth – the snappy video mapping software service run by the online giant – a flight simulator would probably be pretty high on the list.

As you’ll read about at Bobbie Sullivan’s Professional Pilot News blog, the simulator is hidden within the Google software and was not meant to be sold as a flight simulator itself. The designers call this kind of treasure an Easter Egg.

How in the world Bobbie Sullivan found this link to the fellow in South Africa is beyond me. Bobbie writes a bunch of blogs – all herself – so she must have been tipped off by elves.

You have to try this. MS FSX it’s not, but it is fun.

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