Hi there, What was your first Microsoft Flight Simulator in the franchise? Any info or help is greatly appreciated. TIA

Microsoft Flight Simulator (1984) I still have the manual [20251024_221340] [20251024_221400] [20251024_221510] [20251024_221531] [20251024_221604] [2051530-microsoft-flight-simulator-v20-pc-booter-intro-screen] [2047000-microsoft-flight-simulator-v20-pc-booter-behind-view-of-meigs-ta] [30…

I think that was the same map from the Amiga version, with the VORs.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 was my first sim. As a kid i was always roaming about inside game stores, and the casing immediately caught my attention. I think i was around 10 years old. It definitely has learned me a lot, when FSX and the PMDG 737 came out i learned even more. Flying airplanes is…

I haven’t kept the manual since then! Thank you for reminding me.

The first MS FS I actually owned was FS 4.0 with the legendary Experimental Aircraft Designer. Sunk lots of hours into it designing the most hilarious planes. Here’s a video about this. If anybody wants to take a look, you can even play it in the browser: [image] Microsoft…

One of the coolest sim/games I used to use was the FA-18 on my Amiga 2000 but that was years after that first wire frame MSFS experience.

I did my first flights on Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0. Then I moved to 5.1. And I used FS9/FS2004 for 20 years.:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I can’t believe I never posted in this thread. I’ve posted in some others discussing the same topic, but anyway, my first version of the sim was this one: [image] My original was a less-than-legit floppy I got as a teenager, shared from the closest thing to a bearded old hacker my little town had,…

I still have FS95 on CD and I think that was probably my first MS sim. I can still run it in Win 11 but it it is not pretty like MS2024.

FS2000, but I wasn’t really using it a lot. Before I was flying in Flight Unlimited 2 and 3 which were the sims that got me interested in civil aviation. I still have a soft spot for them. Visually they were advanced for their time, just like MSFS is today. ATC, even though it was simplified, was g…

What was your first flight simulator in the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise?

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BEATLE59 January 30, 2026, 7:05pm 77

MSFS 4 on a 486DX-33MHz 500MB hard drive

Hypothetically, if they stopped supporting 2020 and or 2024