Microsoft Flight Simulator: Exploring Canada

August 24, 2020 at 6:54pm
By Jason Stettner

This is certainly a grand experience, and ever so much fun to play. I’ve been truly impressed by Microsoft Flight Simulator, the open freedom of the sky and the great level of detail within the world below. I’ve taken a number of interesting tours and thought I’d go more ambitious by taking a tour of Canada.

I am of course from the country, and have visited some of the big spots. It’s quite neat to see them from this perspective and while I’ll chat about this in a written format, I do suggest checking out the video to see a full showcase of just what the country has to offer in this game.

It has time stamps too, if you’re looking for a particular city or province to be displayed. I think I hit the main spots, but it is a massive country so it was hard to hit everything important. Anyways, with the start of the tour I begin from where I reside which happens to be Calgary.

I thought it was proper to start where I’m located since I know the area well, and can get things off to a stronger start direction wise. It’s a fairly large area that’s sprawling and features a number of local spots worth highlighting.

On top of that it has local accompanying spots such as Chestermere or Airdrie that are right nearby to mention and show. This journey is then expanded upon with a jump to the mountains. A nearby location to the city, and a special spot.

This is Kananaskis , which has a number of small little towns to showcase. These are big tourist destinations due to their location within the mountains. It also showcases the Rocky Mountains where are stunning in-game. Being a Calgarian I thought it was only proper to snub Edmonton on this tour, so I headed to the west coast line next.

The first spot there was Vancouver, I had many requests video wise to show this region and did so. I also hopped across the water there to give a glimpse at Victoria as well. Neat to see this spot and realize the cities are so close in proximity to the border. After that I headed east to hit up Regina in Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg in Manitoba.

I won’t dive into them too much, they’re smaller main prairie cities that I felt I had to give some representation of. With that, we get into some of the hot spots of Canada. That being a fly over of the large Toronto area and then Montreal. Toronto being in Ontario, and Montreal in Quebec if you’re unfamiliar with the cities. Both areas are very neat to see from that perspective.

Toronto with the satellite cities over a massive lake and then Montreal’s island like design that I didn’t notice when I travelled there to see the Shadow of the Tomb Raider reveal in real life a couple years back. Again, it’s very different to visit areas from a fresh perspective.

It really gives a sense of scale to the places, and how they fit into the natural landscape. I then concluded the trip with a brief look at the Maritimes that are far larger than I had ever imagined since they always look so tiny on a map.

I think I generally got the important areas, snubbing Edmonton and being blissfully unaware of the Territories to the north. It was a fun visit to take, and it really puts into perspective this large landmass that makes up Canada. Definitely a thrilling tour and one of many that I’ve taken thus far. You can read our review of the title below, or the general game hubs areas for further coverage of franchises.

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