Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PS5 Preorders Are Live

For the PS5 release, players can expect the same accurately rendered world, flight paths, and aircraft as the PC and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game. Developer Asobo Studio has added several significant post-launch updates, and the PS5 version will feature up to 125 highly detailed aircraft. Not only can you fly business jets and ultralight airplanes, but Flight Simulator 2024 also includes airships, hot air balloons, rotorcraft, and fight jets.

There’ll also be several PlayStation-exclusive features for this version of Flight Simulator 2024, designed specifically for the DualSense controller. Adaptive triggers will respond to different speeds and surface types on the ground to add a sense of immersion, air traffic control communications will be played through the controller speaker, and there’ll be more features that will utilize the DualSense lightbar, gyro controls, and touchpad. PS VR2 owners will be able to experience the entire game through their headset when a free update for Flight Simulator 2024 arrives in 2026.

If you’re on Xbox and you haven’t tried it out yet, you can get a good deal on the Premium Deluxe Edition of Flight Simulator 2024. This is for a digital code, but it does unlock the full game, 25 additional aircraft and 10 extra international airports. Normally, you’d pay $130 for this edition, but it is on sale for $63 currently through a limited-time Amazon and Walmart deal.

While Flight Simulator 2024 is perfectly playable with a traditional controller on console, you just can’t beat a proper flight stick for making you feel like you’re really sitting inside of a cockpit. There’s no shortage of these, and while the best models do cost quite a bit, there are affordable alternatives to choose from. The official Flight Simulator 2024 flight stick from Thrustmaster is rock-solid, and attractively priced at $107.

It’s compatible with Xbox Series X|S and PC, and its design offers 10-bit precision with five axes–including Z axis–14 programmable buttons, a rapid-response trigger, and a multidirectional hat switch. All of that hardware is housed in a crisp white shell with Flight Simulator 2024 branding on it, and you can separate the joystick from the throttle.

If you’re looking for realistic yoke controls instead, Logitech does offer a peripheral designed to emulate that piloting setup on PC. Inside the box you’ll find the flight yoke with a long USB connector cable, the flight throttle quadrant, and desk clamps. This controller has a stainless steel yoke shaft designed to provide accurate and smooth control, and for inputs, it’s loaded with a POV hat switch, 14 buttons, and a three-position mode switch for added customization.

This can also be integrated into Logitech’s other flight sim devices thanks to its modular design, so if you want to build a realistic cockpit, the company does offer switches, flight instruments, and radio panels alongside flight rudder pedals.