As well as tutorials there are also landing challenges of varying difficulties, including some of the most remote landing strips in the world, as well as bush trips to experience longer flight plans. I really appreciated this feature as, whilst the 22 total tutorials are very helpful, it was still a big jump going from learning in a small Cessna 152 to then flying a huge Airbus A320neo.

This allows you to repeat the tutorials as you learn more and refine your flying skills. When you complete each tutorial, you are given a score rating breakdown of the key learning components, and how you measured in each area. I still struggled through the latter half of them and thankfully the game does a great job at teaching you how to take off, fly and land the plane with controller prompts all throughout the voice-guided tutorials. The tutorials have been redesigned since the PC release to include shorter and easier-to-understand lessons to help the new pilots like myself learn at a slower pace.

Having not played a Microsoft Flight Simulator game since the 90’s, I jumped straight into the tutorials to learn how to fly with the Xbox controller.

Microsoft flight simulator 2015 review