This is just the first step in an adventure we are honored and excited to be taking with all of you. If you’d like the latest updates, please make sure to sign up for the Insider Program. We will continue to add clarity to this timeline throughout the summer. Early August is our current timeline for kicking off the communication of the development roadmap. Maintaining a collaborative relationship with the community starts with transparency and clearly communicated expectations. Over the next few months, we will be communicating our plans for the rest of the year, including important updates to the Preview Build/Insider Programs, and important development beats. Yoke and pedals, mouse and keyboard, controller, etc. Whatever your abilities are, if you want to fly, we are going to do whatever we can to make that happen. We genuinely want to work closely with the community in the development of this title. We are aware of the concerns in the current eco-system and are working to address them. We are supporting 3rd Party Content Development and Community Content creation.
Designed for PC, optimized for multiplatform support (e.g. We are making Microsoft Flight Simulator. While this is not the moment to answer every question being asked, we do want to take the opportunity to answer a few important ones: We hear you, we value you, we want to make the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator for you, with you. Thank you for being willing to look to the possibilities of the future while asking us to be accountable for the past. Thank you for being patient enough to weather the turbulence caused by some of our previous missteps. On behalf of the entire Microsoft Flight Simulator team, we humbly and deeply express our gratitude for such an overwhelmingly positive response to our announce trailer! We recognize that without people like you, we don’t get to make experiences like this that span more than 35 years and maintain such a passionate following. The culmination of time, effort, technology, and collaboration was edited into a 1:30 second video shown at the Microsoft Keynote presentation this year to kick off E3 2019. We believe part of achieving that goal is taking a moment to recognize pivotal steps in our development process, and today is one of our biggest. And while all of us have our own personal associations with flight, the entire team is committed to the singular goal of capturing the artistry, mastery, and essence of flying. This sentence from Leonardo da Vinci embodies the driving force behind the Microsoft Flight Simulator team.