{"id":2468,"date":"2007-09-03T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/hidden-google-earth-flight-simulator\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:47:08","slug":"hidden-google-earth-flight-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hidden-google-earth-flight-simulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Google Earth flight simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Google Earth flight simulator\" alt=\"Google Earth flight simulator\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/09\/goggleearthsim.thumbnail.png\" \/>So you thought you knew it all. Well think again because the world has one more secret to reveal. There is a flight simulator in Google Earth. That&#8217;s right. And it&#8217;s very realistic. Choose from one of two planes &#8211; an F16 Jet or SR22 propellor plane &#8211; both incredibly difficult to control. Or for me they were. To find these hidden treasures simply download the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-earth-update-includes-sky\/\">latest Google Earth<\/a> and press Control-Alt-A, if you&#8217;re using a PC, or Command-Option-A, on a Mac. You can take off from virtually any airport in the world and try and fly to new destinations using the <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/intl\/en\/userguide\/v4\/flightsim\/index.html\">complex controls<\/a>. I just managed to get into spins, feel sick and crash but I&#8217;m sure with some more persistence you&#8217;ll earn your wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you thought you knew it all. Well think again because the world has one more secret to reveal. There is a flight simulator in Google Earth. That&#8217;s right. And it&#8217;s very realistic. Choose from one of two planes &#8211; an F16 Jet or SR22 propellor plane &#8211; both incredibly difficult to control. Or for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hidden-google-earth-flight-simulator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hidden Google Earth flight simulator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2377],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337161,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/337161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}