How is the progress of the Microsoft Mars Flight Simulator going?
I really have an irresistible urge to go to Mars now 
Guys, let’s face it. Planet Earth isn’t enough for us anymore. Sure, it’s got mountains, oceans, cities, and… whatever this is:
But humanity thrives on pushing boundaries! We’ve charted the skies above Earth, so now, let’s chart the skies above a new frontier.
I’d personally like to petition for all devs to drop everything they’re doing, stop fixing the game-breaking bugs, ignore all the dying Azure servers, and focus their entire attention on… wait for it… Mars.
Think about it:
- No air traffic. No complaints about live weather. Just serene, uninterrupted Martian skies.
- Infinite runway space. No pesky buildings to get in the way.
- A whole new market for Martian aircraft liveries
- No need for “realistic terrain data” or “streamed buildings” - There are no buildings!
So please, join me in demanding that the developers channel all resources into mapping the entirety of Mars down to the last dusty crater. I’m talking photorealistic textures, Martian weather systems, and infinite ability to explore the dusty continuous unchanging expanse that is Mars.
Let’s give the Flight Simulator community what it really wants: a 30-minute loading screen into Mars, then (maybe) a Jupiter DLC in a few years 
Thank you for considering this completely serious petition.
A flight to mars would be impossible.
However - mars would also be far more restrictive:
- Planet is smaller, lighter gravity
- dramatically thinner atmosphere, no earth plane would be able to fly there.
A series of dramatic ingenious superlight aircraft with super-high aspect-ratio wings would be needed even for low altitude flight - but they would also need to be big-wheeled bush planes with very special, very big and very light massive tires to handle landing on planes of sharp rocks.
Imagine a bush plane, built like a glider, and likely with a tiny solar power engine - with really friggen long wings - for low altitude flight on mars.
Edit: also - the lack of a magnetic field would also make compass navigation nearly impossible - it would have to be GPS only - and only while the orbiter is within range - there arent any geosynchronous GPS satellites there currently.
Thus your nav-data would also be intermittent and limited to connectivity to a single orbital source.
Your Electic Martian Bush Ultralite would likely need to include a Star Tracker for navigation.
Edit #2:
- the Ornithopter would work there obviously, for obvious reasons.
- Orbiter
- Space Simulator
end if you want a hardcore space sim:
- ReEntry: A Space Flight SImulator ( on steam ) - it simulates rockets systems, electronics and computers for Gemini/Apollo and other programs of the 60s onwards.