![]() Watch (out-of-copyright) movies and cartoons on the screen. Over those hours, you do, y'know, flight stuff. No, sit back, put your feet up as much as the leg room in economy allows, and try to enjoy. ![]() ![]() You don't even have the minor demands of Desert Bus. But without the 'responsibility' and 'paying attention' of Microsoft Flight Simulator. It can take you on a six-hour trip from JFK in New York to Reykjavik in Iceland, or a shorter two-and-a-half-hour flight from JFK to Halifax in Nova Scotia. Manage cookie settingsĪirplane Mode plunks you in a cyberseat (a window seat, thank god!) for full simulated flights. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Context, eh? I am just sorry it's not arrived under its original name, Flight Simulator, though I can imagine why that might've needed to be changed. ![]() Upon its launch today, it's something else too, a weird virtual memory of a journey that's now wholly out of the question. When Airplane Mode was announced, it seemed a fun joke: sit in a virtual aeroplane seat for the full duration of a simulated flight, trying to entertain yourself by watching films, eating plane food, reading the in-flight magazine, staring out the window, and all that.
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