One of the big draws with the new from Microsoft Flight Simulator is that it recreates the whole planet scale. What this means is that, if you want, you can fly from one airport to another in real time. And few airports are further away in a single trip than LAX and Dubai International Airport.
It takes about 16 hours to fly there in the real world, on an apparent roundabout that takes you across Canada, the North Pole, then down through Europe and into the Middle East.
It’s not the longest route in the world – Singapore to New York is 19 hours, while Perth to London is 17 – but it’s pretty close. And in the interest of creating records and creating quality slow television, some streamers like Bruce Greene and Boon decided to fly the whole thing in real time, complete with pilot uniforms, a cockpit and obligatory small bottles of liquor.
That’s 16 hours! A plane of video games flying! On a real-time journey! I do not know how many of you will want to watch the whole trip, but only in case it is here in any case, if you can only check and see “holy shit they have actually done it”.
Somehow this makes me miss air travel.
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