Introduction
Prior to the closure of the ACES studio in 2009, Microsoft
successfully tempted eager flight simulation fans for decades
with revolutionary new editions of the popular software every 2
years or so. Every new release provided something new; MSFS 4.0
(developed in 1989) detached the two dimensional stigma of the
series by introducing dynamic scenery for the first time, whilst
MSFS 98 (1997) featured the first ever helicopter (Bell 206
Jetranger) within the simulator.
It was not until the release of MSFS 2002, however, that any