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Finally, it\u2019s America\u2019s time to shine. Microsoft and developer Asobo Studio announced Tuesday that Microsoft Flight Simulator<\/em><\/a>\u2019s second world update is here and focuses on the United States, offering new visual improvements to locations across the country.<\/p>\n

Those improvements include four new handcrafted airports: Atlanta, Dallas\/Fort Worth; Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in Washington state; and New York Stewart in the Hudson Valley, north of Manhattan. Microsoft <\/em>Flight Simulator<\/em>\u2019s second world update also polishes up 48 other U.S. airports and includes \u201c50 new high-fidelity points of interest across the country,\u201d Microsoft said in a news release. Those points of interest include the Statue of Liberty, Kennedy Space Center, the Hoover Dam, Monument Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore, Devil\u2019s Tower, and the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n

You can see those new locations and visual upgrades to major cities like New York City, San Diego, Boston, and Miami, in the trailer above.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Flight Simulator<\/em>\u2019s World Update 2 is available for free \u2014 once you download the patch, just head to the in-game marketplace to claim the World Update. The latest additions to the flight sim follow a similar update from September<\/a> that focused on Japan.<\/p>\n

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Finally, it\u2019s America\u2019s time to shine. Microsoft and developer Asobo Studio announced Tuesday that Microsoft Flight Simulator\u2019s second world update is here and focuses on the United States, offering new visual improvements to locations across the country. Those improvements include four new handcrafted airports: Atlanta, Dallas\/Fort Worth; Friday Harbor on San Juan Island in Washington state; and New York Stewart in the Hudson Valley, north of Manhattan. Microsoft Flight Simulator\u2019s second world update also polishes up 48 other U.S. airports and includes \u201c50 new high-fidelity points of interest across the country,\u201d Microsoft said in a news release. Those points of interest include the Statue of Liberty, Kennedy Space Center, the Hoover Dam, Monument Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore, Devil\u2019s Tower, and the Grand Canyon.…<\/p>\n

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